Re: The Woman In The Window (US) 2021

william ahearn wrote:
Hey,
 What attracted me to this movie is Gary Oldman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and

Julianne Moore. What slowed me down was Joe Wright " who hasn't directed a
film I really responded to " and Tracy Letts who " with the possible
exception of William Friedkin's Bug " turns out stagey film scripts. This
time he's outdone himself with a screenplay that is downright theatrical.
Letts also plays a supporting role and he's just fine.

 The premise has been done before in various guises with the most salient

example being Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window, although Josh Mann's Dystopia is
another derivative example. There's a agoraphobic woman in a window " and no
sign of Fritz Lang " with a camera with a long lens and she isn't only a
psychologist, she's also a voyeur. She's been spying on her neighbors and what
she sees " ala Cornell Woolrich " had to be murder.

 Everyone who comes in contact with her believes that she is crazy as the

person she thinks has been murdered apparently hasn't. The people across the
street " where the murder supposedly occurred "  vehemently deny that any
murder has occurred. The murder " that the audience also witnesses " is
the crux of this story that is billed as a “psychological drama.”

 That is the gist and I'll leave it there. It isn't very psychological and it

isn't " even for a moment " credible in any sense. Jennifer Jason Leigh is
completely wasted and even Gary Oldman is bad and I didn't think that was
possible. Usually, I write about films that I like or are interesting or that
I think movie lovers will appreciate. This isn't one of them.
This is the kind of movie I want to see alone and not see alone at the same
time. This is a response to the post seen at:
http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=593410317#593410317