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Monday, November 17, 2025

"After The Hunt"

I saw this movie last month and and I forgot to write about it. It's a curious movie, where the actors cast accusations and aspersions against each other, yet the audience doesn't have enough information to evaluate the claims. It boils down to what you believe. The epilogue of the film is interesting, yielding a happy ending, and the definite understanding that none of what came before really mattered. The Woody-Allen font aids this process of downplaying the high-tension of before. 

So, it's curious. Here is a review of the film:
Of course, Hank vehemently denies any wrongdoing, but is quickly fired by the teaching department, after Alma’s testimony supports Maggie, and the higher-ups believes it is the right thing to do, optics-wise. The movie then begins to veer in a direction that isn’t at all what its introduction promised to the audience, offering no answers to whether or not Hank did what he was accused of, and if Alma’s current beliefs are perhaps the cause of a past experience she had with an alleged sexual assault. Instead of giving easy answers to anything, Guadagnino confronts the audience’s values – and their conception of cinema – with an often contradictory object that always fascinates in how he never gives the audience lines of thinking to the questions and themes he and screenwriter Nora Garrett treat within this fictionalized story of an event occurring in the middle of the #MeToo movement.

 

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