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Paulina (1998)
Very moving. . .
This documentary is about a woman named Paulina who endured a horrifying childhood and then goes back to her village as an old woman. The filmmaker goes through not only her childhood, but also how she worked through her terrible past and raised her own child to be strong enough to never let any man control her. Paulina tells her story to the filmmaker, who grew up with Paulina as her family's cook and housekeeper. It's amazing to see how the sexual abuse from Paulina's childhood directly affected everything she did in her life, and it's disturbing to realize that this powerful story is just one example of how sexual abuse victims are traumatically affected.
The Final Patient (2005)
What a disappointment!
I watched this movie with quite a lot of hope for having found a diamond in the rough, but was thoroughly disappointed. The movie is VERY slow throughout the middle of the film and the ending is so bizarre that I was very irritated when the credits began to roll. The ending could have been better if the filmmakers had elected to explain WHY Mrs. Green wanted to kill everyone. I gathered that she was homicidal because of the effects of the drug, but the film didn't really clarify, either through a back story telling about her addiction to and reactions from the drug or some other device. Basically, it showed her sneaking downstairs to snag some of the formula while her husband went to town (what did she do to get the drug all those months when her husband DIDN'T go to town?) and then she goes wildly crazy at the end and tries to kill everyone. I think it's sad when a movie has to have it's back story explained on IMDb message boards rather than during the film. And how come hubby wasn't homicidal while taking the same formula?!? And then Mrs. Green magically pops up under Cameron's (whose character is extremely annoying in the beginning) hospital bed, unbeknownst to the medical staff who go in and out of his room at all hours of the day and night. The ending would have been laughable had I not been so irritated at the whole waste of my time. As slow as the film was, I kept telling myself, "This had BETTER make up for the slow-going with a great ending!" Wow, was I let down. . .