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The Innocents (1961)
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1/12:
The Innocents is a snoozefest that's filled with bad acting, lame storyline, and annoying children.
I couldn't wait for it to end which took me an entire week with lots of pauses when the sheer amount of boredom got the best of me.
All Deborah Kerr (can you say...old?!?) can do is keep her mouth and eyes wide open. And she calls it "acting"? O...kay. As for
the boy and girl, can their annoyance be topped by the Dead End Kids? Not yet, but they're nearly there.
As for the plot, what else is new? Are there 2,000 films in the supernatural genre that deal with spectres, paranormal sights
and sounds, and the like? I mean, what's so fantastic and different about each of them? They're all the same to me:
lots of camera manipulation to pass the time.
Incidentally, I read the novella The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, and I can safely say the film doesn't resemble
the story. So, there you have it: a pastiche. For a while, I surmised the governess' deep desire was to molest the boy and
sleep with him. It turns out that I was correct. So, in a way, the movie is a lot like
Lolita but subtle.
All in all, Deborah Kerr should've learned how to close her mouth for the sake of believability.