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The Keeping Room (2014)
Topic Started: Sep 1 2015, 08:56 PM (393 Views)
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Left without men in the dying days of the American Civil War, three Southern women - two sisters and one African-American slave - must fight to defend their home and themselves from two rogue soldiers who have broken off from the fast-approaching Union Army.
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September 25th

I wasn't paying close enough attention to realize that horror websites were covering this because it's a home invasion movie until today.
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Not really too sure about this one as the time-period setting is about the only unique thing about this one. Doesn't even sound like much of a horror film anyway so I'll have extreme reservations about this one.
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Some people are like slinkies: not good for anything, but you can't help but laugh when one falls down the stairs.

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^ A lot of pretty horrifying things can happen between a couple of crazed soldiers and three women, lol. I think this sounds pretty great.
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Just because you start off with a horror premise doesn't mean it's a true horror film all the way through. A lot of this reads like a brutal western that happens to play out like a modern home-invasion film, and none of that really appeals all that much to me.
Do illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?

Some people are like slinkies: not good for anything, but you can't help but laugh when one falls down the stairs.

My review blog: http://donshorrormovieblog.blogspot.com/
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DVD February 2nd
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Fixed the poster.


I'm really looking forward to seeing this. It's interesting that the villains are Union soldiers instead of Confederate soldiers like they usually are in movies, haha.
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It has a Mondo poster, so I obviously had to use that in the first post instead.

You can see the other two posters at the IMP Awards website.
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There is simultaneous poster fixing going on.
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^ Oh I just fixed it because for some reason the mondo poster wasn't showing up. I assumed it was broken, my mistake. (shock) I really like all three posters, actually.


Or did you put the mondo poster there at the same time that I put the other one there? Damn broken links make this more complicated than it needs to be, lol.
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That's an awesome poster...
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I don't know. I changed it again just to be really confusing.
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I'm SO glad I watched this before the awards because I'm definitely going to be submitting it for a TON of the Best Of 2015 threads. This was surprisingly great, even better than I thought it'd be (and I was always expecting it to be at least good). It is NOT a straightforward Horror film but it falls into the genre. It's a nice blend of Horror, Drama, Action/Western elements and like Bone Tomahawk, it works in all aspects. Every now and then, it feels like they were trying too hard to tug at the viewers' heartstrings but since they were successful there, I don't really mind. The monologues were all really well written (and well acted).

It's violent but not super grisly. There are some really brutal shootings here. The first two in particular were pretty shocking. It's not as bloody or action packed as I thought it'd be but that's fine. It felt grounded in reality at pretty much all times and when the violence/action came, it came in sharp, effective bursts that worked.

This is strongest in the characters department. I got a very clear idea of who all three of the women were despite the fact that for the first 50 minutes or so, Louise had nothing to do except get bit by a raccoon and lay in bed. Eventually, she became a pretty strong and sympathetic character. It was interesting that the youngest character in the film was the most racist of the lot. Usually, the younger characters are the 'glimmer of hope' and 'sign of progress' or whatever. It made it clear that racism is wrong (duh) but didn't expect us to absolutely hate Louise for her stance. Instead, it's made clear that that's just how she was raised, it was 150 years ago, and she was more ignorant and bitchy in general than just bitchy to black people only. Mad was a beautiful character. She was such a warm and kind person and had a definite presence that I was terrified the whole time that she would end up getting the worst death of all. Her actress' performance is definitely one that I'll be keeping in mind when the Best Of 2015 threads go up next month. The monologue about the shed - holy crow! O_O Augusta was great. I really liked her actress' performance and she had her badass moments but never felt like an inhuman comic book superhero or exaggerated badass. :P I'm not sure which woman is my favorite of the three - her or Mad.

The villains were interesting as well. I hated them for what they did to people over the course of the movie but at the same time, I could see that they were probably really good people at one time and that they had just been warped by the war and what they had seen and done. I wish they had made that more obvious with the bad guy who
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but they did a great job making me feel pretty conflicted about Mose by the end of it. His final scene with Augusta reminded me of something I wrote in one of my scripts (not saying which since it's a spoiler, lol). I actually kind of felt bad for him sometimes. (wary) Bill didn't have enough to do but I love the impact his character had on Mad. I liked the people at the bar/whorehouse/whatever and I was
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The opening surprised me because as soon as I saw
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The ending was nothing short of beautiful imo. It was a bit clichéd, sure, but still beautiful. The music certainly helped with that. I damn near teared up when
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7/10 quality, 8/10 entertainment. One of my new favorites of the last year. (love)
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I was very moved by this movie. It was a beautiful film.

All of the actors in the film did a fabulous job. Brit Marling was fantastic as Augusta, never hitting a bum note in what an incredibly difficult role in the movie, as it was such an understated, but deeply emotional, role to take on. She's also downright beautiful, and I couldn't take my eyes off of her throughout the film. She may have looked dirty in the film, but that didn't stop her from being absolutely beautiful.

Hailee Steinfeld has always been a fantastic young actress, if you ask me, and this is probably her best performance to date. She plays the role very real, very emotionally. She's one of the best criers I've seen in a movie in recent times. She moved me to tears several times.
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There's a reason she got noticed at such a young age. She has genuine, uninhibited, raw acting talent that very few have so naturally.

Muna Otaru did the best job, though. She managed to make the character of Mad a believable, uneducated "slave girl" character without turning her into the minstrel-y cliche that so many films that take place in this era accidentally turn their black characters into. She's also a very understated actress, and it works perfectly in this role. There was so much quiet strength in her performance. Easily one of the best performances of the year. Hands down. All three women did a totally fantastic job.

Kyle Soller was very scary as Henry. It's funny that he's so grungy looking here, though, as he's actually quite pretty in real life... Same with Sam Worthington. They both did fantastic jobs as the villains.

One thing I thought was gutsy (particularly for 2015) to make the villains Union soldiers, what with how these days, you're a racist if you glorify the Confederacy. Though, I think this movie was just being fair and neutral. There are no "good guys" in war. Even the good side with the right morals has men who will take advantage of the power they have, and will use that power to hurt innocent people just because they can. This film shows that, and I love it for that.

This was a beautiful, moving, horrific film that I recommend to anyone: People who love horror, people who love westerns, people who love dramas, people who love female-driven serious films. Etc. Everyone. But not children. This is a very mature movie.

Grade: A
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Read some reviews for this that made me realize that sexism is alive and fucking well among male filmgoers.

Even on just comments on the trailer on YouTube, people were criticizing this film's label as "a feminist western." It being called a "feminist" film was so stupid to them, and it's "so ridiculous that politics have to even make their way into westerns."

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Other than the obvious reasons, that really irks me because there is no way to claim that westerns haven't been political unless you come up with a way to ignore all westerns made after 1950, and that's also assuming that it only counts if it is liberal politics. I don't think it is possible to like westerns and have not seen a ton of them about communism.
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^ Agreed. His statement sucked on so many levels, as my girl, Janessa would say.
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What Vanessa said.


And it isn't even as if this is a HUGE 'feminazi' film that makes all men look eeevil or whatever. The villains happen to be male, the protagonists happen to be female. The film could've played out in almost the exact same way even if a man or two or a little boy had been in the group of leads as well. So I don't get why people are so butthurt about it. I do think that the term 'feminism' is thrown onto things a bit too loosely though. I didn't see this as a 'girl power' film or an 'anti man' film or a 'fight for equality' film as much as I saw it as a commentary on the fact that war corrupts and that not all Union soldiers were automatically 'good' and not all Southerners were automatically 'bad.' BUT I'm more than fine with it being considered a feminist film.

If anything, I'm surprised more people aren't getting their panties in a wad over the fact that this, unlike a lot of things, didn't go out of its way to make the Southerners during the Civil War all look like racist trash. (lol)
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It showed the South for what it really was. A mixed bag. There were farms and plantations that treated their slaves decently, such as how Augusta treated Mad, but there were also plantations like the one Mad was on as a young child, in which slaves were treated as less than human, less than animals.
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