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Saturday, February 29, 2020

12 and Holding (2005)

An American drama directed by Michael Cuesta.
A group of children have problems. 1 boy's brother died in a treehouse fire. He visits 1 of the boys responsible in prison. 1 fat boy fell out of said treehouse during the fire and lost his sense of taste. The gym teacher wants him on the football team, so he eats healthy and exercises. A girl has a crush on a construction worker and sneaks into his apartment.
Most of this was terrible, but there were some good parts. The plot had interesting material in it, but moved far too slowly. Many of the characters developed over the duration. This is more than I can say for most films. The kids tried to fix their problems and some of the parents came to realize they had problems. The video looked alright. The camera placement was all really obvious and standard. Also, some of the less eventful shots lasted too long. Slow pacing. Audio was a nightmare. The copy I got had been compressed, normalized or had the volume raised to the point that everything was clipping like an old kung fu movie. The waveform would look like a series of boxes. I rate this tolerable because some of it was really good. The problem is that most of it was really bad. You might not want to watch it.

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