The Oak Room (2020)
6/10
not Scheherazade
16 November 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Finished better than I expected after a very slow start. The concept was intriguing so I turned it on but right away you can feel the woodenness of the actors. But, I left it on in the background and caught a few snippets of "the story" that began to make it interesting. The acting never improved but the story did. The dialogue was pretty rudimentary...an exchange of "but why not?" "because I said I don't want to" "but you'll like it" on and on and on like that several times ....I mean...that's such teenager tripe conversation and gets boring pretty fast.

Definitely figured out the ending before we got there. The saddest part of the whole story was him having to kill the baby pig. Even more sad than realizing it was the impetus for him to becoming a killer. He cried over that death. But now he's the one dealing it out without remorse at all.

Over-all, not bad but coulda been spiced up with better dialogue and better acting.
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