I especially appreciated your (Craig.net(?) 'Never Boring' review, because your description of how you're compelled to watch this movie once a year plus the list of it's mediocre at best qualities ... I had to laugh at myself as you've captured my assessment of Mildred Pierce, a melodrama of a movie that I am compelled to watch once a year too. I try to answer a friend of mine who complains about unrealistic over-the-top black & white movies (he puts all of them into that category..? ) and I have to say "And that's the point! What's wrong with not real or un relatable? Don't you get = Escapism. Realism is for the birds ..". And I do mean that. At least during that era people went to a movie (My parents told me) for a break. Not for reinforcement of their daily struggle and stress. So I say "stop listening too intently and critically to the music that annoys you because it tells you how to feel !" ... (he says he feels manipulated into feeling the way the writers intend him to feel) "Instead just allow yourself to be manipulated. In other words .. let go and be entertained by NOT relating". Does that make any sense to you ? Because overdone soapy cornball movies are actually great fun. Reality is highly overrated.
Review of The Caretakers
