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Blithe Spirit (2020)
Cowardly remake of Coward
The film is a pitiful way to throw away a very good material (the hilarious play "Blithe Spirit" by Noel Coward) and a fairly good endowment of material means (setting, costumes, scenery...).
The abundance of means, that is, costumes, sets, photography, etc... is useless if the source material, an amusing work by Noel Coward, is diluted in a vain attempt to move away from the first adaptation, eliminating key scenes of Lean's film and adding others that contribute absolutely nothing.
I don't know if it is intentional (to put the ideological charge against the male that is already customary in movies) but the message of the remake is opposite to that of the original work.
In "Blithe Spirit" Noel Coward presents a protagonist who has been dominated all his life by women (his mother, his first wife, and is being dominated by his second wife) and who, at the end of the play is free of the ghosts of the past (his ex-wives); while they are left raging, indignant, because "the victim" is escaping them.
In this pathetic remake, the male protagonist is presented to us as an impudent man who has signed as his own works by his first wife (who, at the end, as if in passing, we are informed that he also plagiarized them from an obscure Mexican writer; but no matter, the discredit will fall on the husband) and, as the play progresses, the fine humor so characteristic of Coward is abandoned to end with a coalition of both ghosts against the husband.
Why Hide? (2018)
The true meaning of Christmas Day.
Funny film by a new director. There's no need to wait for a super-production, because it's been made with few resources, but very well taken advantage of.
The visual effects, when they appear, are quite good, except on one occasion at the end.
The protagonists, taking away someone who is a little sad, are the kind that when you've been in the movie for ten minutes, you're wishing that "whatever it is" ends up with them in the most frightening way you can imagine and then put a medal for the good work.
In short: The first work of a new director, entertains, has a good time and has had the great success that the end does not bitter the feeling left by the rest of the film, as happens in others supposedly better. Enjoy it.