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1.5/4
The story itself is kind of feeble.
ikkegoemikke - wrote on 07/16/2015
What I do isn't about the people that die. It's about the people that are left alive. They get the short end of the stick, as far as I'm concerned.
"The Living" is a basic revenge film in which the reprisal turns out quite differently than initially intended. A social drama about domestic violence and alcoholism, although I started wondering after a while how critical this alcohol problem was. The evolution to this violent abuse wasn't discussed. How could it come to this? Were there already signs of an oncoming problem? And were there cases of domestic violence already in the past? You're kept in the dark when it comes to these relevant considerations.
The first image, accompanied by music from The de Luca Brothers, is that of some empty beer bottles scattered around on the ground …
