![]() For the film certainly feels like it ought to function, with all the ineffable artistic grace that can fit under the word "functional". And here's where we get to that glitch algorithm. I frame it this way deliberately, because to suggest that Things Heard & Seen actually uses the haunting and the toxic marriage to comment on each other would be to give it a benefit of the doubt that it does not, on its own merits, earn. ![]() The film has been adapted from Elizabeth Brundage's 2016 novel All Things Cease to Appear (an unquantifiably superior title), but it seems to actually exist to fill a square in the "You Also Might Like" section for people who have watched The Hauntings of Hill House and Bly Manor multiple times: it is a combination ghost story and domestic drama, starring recently-minted Netflix royalty Amanda " Mank" Seyfried and the naggingly-recognisable-but-not-for-any-specific-reason James Norton as a married couple going through an especially ugly stretch in the summer, autumn, and winter of 1980, while living in a haunted house.y What is, maybe, interesting about the film, less as an object to spend 121 glacially-paced minute watching, than as a symptom of How Movies Function Today, is that Things Se Heard & Seen feels like the thing we get when the legendary Netflix Algorithm glitches, for just a bit. ![]() I swear, I'm trying, but sometimes the movie just doesn't give you anything to work with. Or that the Netflix marketing people have decided that their best play here is to appeal to the "Amanda Seyfried in a serious drama" crowd and make the poster (a transparent head floating over a landscape outlined in orange, which goes directly behind the eyes) a direct rip-off of the post for the 2017 Seyfried vehicle First Reformed. There is very little inherently interesting about Things Heard & Seen, a movie about which the strongest emotional response I have had is frustration at the almost gravitational pull that I have towards typing out the title as Things Seen & Heard, having to bodily force myself on the right track every time. ![]()
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