The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter: MINI-REVIEW

I’m not a big fan of hunting and never will be. So I guess I’m qualified not to like this movie. However, the reason I can’t honestly say that I liked the movie is not because it’s about hunting, you can tell good stories through horrible things … Josh Brolin to tell a story. I appreciated some of its quirks and the fact that the tone was deliberately a big mess, but I don’t see it as something that meets the expectations of the viewer. Other than the fact that it is Brolin in the lead role, nothing else ties you to the character, there is no emotional bond and the only bond that exists is very predictable. The dynamic between Brolin’s character and his annoying son is so absolutely obvious that I can’t even call this “lazy writing.” This was “sleeping writing.” Recently, I found myself reviewing movies that often felt like missed opportunities, add this one to the list. The artists and the stage could have worked towards an entirely different goal, the final product could have been an independent sensation. In the end, we are looking at a very light comedy that only gives you a small amount of excitement and / or fun. Without Brolin and McBride, it would have been a half-star movie. I don’t know, I’m thinking about it and I don’t think it’s a movie that deserves to be ripped apart, but it didn’t make me feel much while watching it, so … the potential to work, but it was half-baked. Or maybe not, maybe that was the movie Jody Hill wanted to make, a silly slice of life that doesn’t really come home after delivering all the goods. The comic elements are present, but were never fully embraced, because it seems that Hill was more interested in this unusual character study than in a dramatic / comic development of the story. Perhaps a tougher hand in dosing the comedy could have helped. Even when dosing the dramatic parts, actually. Hell, imagine if the boy died while hunting, it would have been a huge blow to the stomach for the public who were on the light trip, it could have elevated a mostly anonymous image to something that people would not do. I have forgotten, as always.

They obviously had different intentions, the Netflix production just wants to take you to the place of pressing the thumbnail and sticking with it, so these movies have to stay on a much more conventional route, sadly, despite the fact that all “doing weird things” seems to have worked the same way in the past. I hope that Netflix, a place of ideas and creativity, does not take too many steps to become a regular film studio, where instead of shaping the tastes of the audiences, they fall into the pattern of predicting the tastes of the audiences and giving them things. simple that (supposedly) they want. I found some narrative similarities to I Don’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore, because of how the story unfolded in an unconventional character-centric way, placing absolutely weird (sometimes unrealistic) dynamics between the characters (McBride showing footage of his girlfriend being gangbanged by uncles Brolin’s son, who is only twelve years old). While IDFAHITWA (I thought using the acronym would have made my life easier, it didn’t) found the perfect balance between the weird, the sad and the funny, delivering an incredible climax; The Legacy Of A Whitetail Deer Hunter (Dude, what about these titles, by the way) really didn’t? It’s too sketched to become concrete, even the ending (where things get a little more intense) feels too light and not rewarding enough. I was not bored, again, 100% by Brolin, but I was never enthusiastic either, and that is certainly not good. Visually, they worked enough to make a classic setting feel a bit more lively, putting the characters in some situations worthy of a light Bear Grylls episode, environmentally even, and that was great. He also doesn’t really take a position on the “train his son to hunt” situation, at least a little moral dilemma would have been nice to see. There is a very small part, but it remained unsolved and unexplored, like most of the movie.