Something is very off about this movie. It was very difficult to feel sorry for Sigourney Weaver's character (despite her innocence) due to her bizarre behaviour, and other people in it equally acted out in strange ways which felt directly at odds with the situation they were in.
Despite not being a bad film by any stretch, I can't quite put my finger on why I didn't think much of A Map Of The World, but it was definitely overlong by a good half-hour and the children in it were very annoying... and alas, we saw a LOT of them.
There's prison scenes, drama at home and even a final courtroom sequence, but nothing really connects and it just all seems unconvincing and unmoving.
Finally, there's a part where our main family, nearly bankrupted by lawyer fees and trying to find the resources for bail, decide to sell their farm and relocate to the city. This means getting rid of their cat... and the glib way they treat losing a family member made me lost whatever sympathy I had for them in the first place.
Which, considering how weird they've been from almost from the first shot, wasn't a heck of a lot to begin with. 5/10
Despite not being a bad film by any stretch, I can't quite put my finger on why I didn't think much of A Map Of The World, but it was definitely overlong by a good half-hour and the children in it were very annoying... and alas, we saw a LOT of them.
There's prison scenes, drama at home and even a final courtroom sequence, but nothing really connects and it just all seems unconvincing and unmoving.
Finally, there's a part where our main family, nearly bankrupted by lawyer fees and trying to find the resources for bail, decide to sell their farm and relocate to the city. This means getting rid of their cat... and the glib way they treat losing a family member made me lost whatever sympathy I had for them in the first place.
Which, considering how weird they've been from almost from the first shot, wasn't a heck of a lot to begin with. 5/10