Wednesday, November 07, 2018

Here be precious and grace

Usually the scripts that revolve around prom night are either sweet sugary flicks of growing up or they are horror nasties. At first this seemed like the former and it is, in a way, but little nuances, black humour in between the lines, make a whole lot of difference. Would have done better without excess farceness and the last 20 minutes of syrupy mush, but better than expected.

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