That WTF Mind-Reading Plot Point

Annapurna

 

Where’d You Go, Bernadette is a massively disappointing, meandering film that I wasn’t planning on writing about as a result of life’s too brief and all that (And I do know “meandering movie” doesn’t actually imply something, however I’m not right here to essentially speak about that side of the movie so I’ve determined to simply go away it at that.) Plus, the very fact Richard Linklater directed this film – a filmmaker I, and lots of others, enormously admire – I simply form of needed to fake Where’d You Go, Bernadette by no means occurred.

But, right here we’re, as a result of for the lifetime of me there’s one plot level on this film I simply can’t get out of my head. And the one option to exorcise this demon is to place it into print and ship it out into the world to verify I in some way didn’t simply think about this complete factor. And, look, it is a film crammed with jaw-droppingly outlandish plot factors that both go nowhere or make no sense.

So, no, this isn’t about how Bernadette (Cate Blanchett) spends portion of the primary half of this film telling all her issues by e-mail to a digital assistant who lives in India.

No, this isn’t about how she audibly dictates her emails to this digital assistant, leaving in each little transgression about her life.

No, this isn’t about how the FBI exhibits as much as inform her and her husband, Elgin (Billy Crudup), that the digital assistant shouldn’t be a girl in India, however truly somebody within the Russian mob. And not solely that, the Russian mob is on their option to Bernadette and Elgin’s home. What are the Russian mobsters going to do as soon as they get to Bernadette and Elgin’s home? That’s not clear, however Elgin is beneath the impression that the mob will simply take every part Bernadette and Elgin have as a result of, “they know everything.”

And, no, this isn’t about how all of this in regards to the Russian mob – a whole subplot that runs over half the size of the film – is resolved in as soon as sentence because the FBI agent tells everybody that, excellent news, they caught the Russian mobsters on the airport as they modified planes.