User Comments for Last Night in Soho

Jordyep says...

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2 years ago

It’s hard to rate, because there are a lot of entertaining scenes in it, but the movie at its core doesn’t really work.
I can’t shed this feeling that Edgar Wright had a visual cue in his head of a girl experiencing visions of the 1960’s first, and tried to build a movie around that second.
The characters, drama, camerawork, music selection and social commentary are all very good, but the whole set up is kinda nonsense once you know the answers to the mystery.
I kept waiting for the twist that’d explain why [spoiler] our protagonist has these accurate visions of things that happened 50 years earlier [/spoiler], but it’s never answered, despite it being the crux of the whole film.
Also, showing CGI ghosts in a horror movie using well lit close ups is never the best idea, it kinda killed a lot of the horror and suspense.
I kinda liked that I thought that I was ahead of the film at one point, only to find out that it was a big misdirect to make you think you were ahead.

5.5/10

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Reply by birdofprey

2 years ago

@jordyep > I kept waiting for the twist that’d explain why our protagonist has these accurate visions of things that happened 50 years earlier , but it’s never answered, despite it being the crux of the whole film<br /> <br /> ehm that was explained in the first 10 mins of the film.

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Reply by Jordyep

2 years ago

@birdofprey What was the explanation?

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Reply by xaliber

2 years ago

@jordyep Comments that expect the film will explain how and why Eloise is experiencing vision I think miss the point of the film completely, as it's never been about thoses technicalities, but Eloise's empathy and experience as a girl finding something that she always dreams of (London in the 60s) yet at the same time completely alien to her (the harsh life of girl moving out to big cities), with focus as the experience of a woman. The vision is just a plot device, not something to get worked over with.

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Reply by Jordyep

2 years ago

@xaliber I get why they’re in there, and what they do for the story. I’d let it pass if it was just that, a vision or an imagined thing. But it’s not, because as we find out, what she’s seeing is actually all true, so it’s not just a normal vision. At that point I feel like the film has to explain itself, especially given that it becomes such a major plot point in the third act.

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Reply by Jim222001

2 years ago

@jordyep She is special and can see her dead mom at her childhood home. So when she stays at that apartment. She sees the is able to live through Sandie’s past.<br /> Probably helped being so obsessed with the 60’s as well.

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