Noise 2

Beth: Another Noise movie, watched in the same week as the first.  This one's Aussie, about murders, full of dark nights and cops with issues and a scared woman.  Here's my 10 cents (there are no pennies in NZ):  

Thumbs up for:

1. Normal-looking, flawed actors.  Those on this side of the world seem much more willing to cast real humans in their films, and I appreciate that.  

2. Acting.

3. Camera work.

Thumbs down for:

Whoever edited this thing. And I guess that's also a big swat to the director and producer for putting it out there with so many parts of the plot obviously missing.  It's like someone got tired of telling the story 75% in and just said, ok, whatever, let's end this thing.  We don't understand why the cop's tinnitis is part of the story, we don't know why the guy didn't shoot the girl, what the second murder has to do with anything, and there's no clue as to the murderer's motivation, both in the initial action or the ending.  What we're left with is a 48-hours type montage.

So it was a nice aesthetic experience, but wouldn't recommend a night culminating in such confusion and loose ends.