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The Handmaid's Tale treats "worldbuilding" the way a toddler treats a fruit bowl — enthusiastically, briefly, then forgotten.
“This tomato has seen things.”
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2017 · Drama / Sci-Fi / Adventure
The Handmaid's Tale
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Masterfully crafted. Un-roastable.
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An absolute cinematic disaster.
Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.
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Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.
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r/criticalkino · u/ScriptDoctor99🔥 1.7k points
Hot Take: The Handmaid's Tale's third act ruined what could have been a masterpiece
Rewatched The Handmaid's Tale last night and noticed even more plot holes than the first time. The motivations don't track at all once you stop and think about act two.
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r/criticalkino · u/MidnightMatinee🔥 0.9k points
[Serious Discussion] Is anyone else completely checked out by the pacing in The Handmaid's Tale?
Look, I wanted to love The Handmaid's Tale. The trailer had me hyped. But sitting through the second hour felt like a homework assignment. The dialogue is exposition stacked on exposition and the score keeps telling me how to feel.
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r/flicks · u/ScriptDoctor99🔥 2.3k points
The cinematography in The Handmaid's Tale is doing all the heavy lifting and it shows
Honestly, The Handmaid's Tale would be a tight 95-minute movie. Instead we got a bloated runtime padded with B-roll and lingering shots that add nothing.
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r/criticalkino · u/BoomMicBoomer🔥 0.6k points
[Spoilers] Can we discuss that absolutely baffling ending in The Handmaid's Tale?
Director clearly thought The Handmaid's Tale was deeper than it is. There's a difference between ambiguous and unfinished, and this leans hard into the second.
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