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User Comments for: The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them

Nancy L Draper says...
8 years ago
This was an interesting premise - to have two movie tell the same story from two different perspectives: Her and Him, and then the producer insisted on a third composite: Them - but the story of the erosion of a marriage after a tragic incident couldn't support the finite examination, it bleed out into a tedious demise. Jessica Chastain and James MacAvoy (with an American accent) gave us well articulated characters, as you would expect from them, but the pace of the story telling and its excruciating slow resolution is challenged to hold its audience once, let alone three times. I watched the three movies in this order: Her to which I gave a 7 (good) out of 10, Him a 6 (fair) out of 10 - and finally, Them (only under a self imposed obligation to give them all a fair critique), which I gave a 5 (meh) out of 10.
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Reply by lezelmaz
4 years ago
@nancy-l-draper Thanks for explaining (somewhat). I read reviews about competing POV and was expecting Eleanor Rigby to be similar to The Affair (2014) which aired just about the same time Rigby was released. The first season of Affair was exceptional, with repeating scenes, drastic (but realistic) alteration of POV, and dynamic pacing. Perhaps producers don't trust their audience but after the first season, or so, Affair settled into more traditional potboiler serial, occasionally reverting back to form and became far less interesting. Eleanor Rigby: Them seems to have zero POV and is a total bore. I would have watched Him + Her separately, but it isn't available on any service subscription, or even to rent. Them is available on PLUTO for free.. but hardly worth watching. A shame for such a stellar and cohesive cast.
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