I'm not rating this so badly specifically because it's not a horror movie; AmazonPrime's entry for it listed it as horror for some reason. I was tricked in this way before with "Voice from the Stone" and I found it largely okay, if forgettable.
This one, by comparison, is a boring dud. Veronika goes through a whole ritual in the opening of attempting suicide, being found by her landlord or neighbor or someone and rushed to the hospital where she's saved. What reasons were given for this suicide attempt were flimsy and incoherent, and honestly they shouldn't have bothered trying to justify it at all. Suicide is obviously a serious subject matter and what ever happens in someone's life to drive them to that point are of immense trauma and tragedy to everyone involved.
This film doesn't bother with any of that. Veronika is then checked in to some kind of psychiatric hospital where she is inexplicably singled out and laughed at by patients seemingly out of "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest", including a young guy who doesn't speak, Edward. The doctor there says that her suicide attempt via pill overdose caused her to have a massive aneurysm which cannot be treated and she will die within weeks or months.
During this time staying at the hospital, she mostly does nothing and talks to other people. None of the other characters are particularly memorable or interesting, and I've already completely forgotten what, if anything, they all discussed.
VERY late in the film, Veronika seems to notice Edward. Despite having almost no screen time with Edward, Veronika and Edward inexplicably fall in love, about 50 minutes in to the film.
From there, any hint of drama almost immediately dissolves into nonsense as Edward suddenly starts to speak, and he and Veronika decide to escape the psychiatric hospital, with the head doctor knowing this and doing nothing about it.
The head doctor then just leaves with some notes for his nurses claiming that Veronika was actually fine and wasn't going to die; he LIED about the EKG results out of some yoga-mom philosophical nonsense reasoning that only by thinking she was going to die could Veronika come to appreciate life and thus no longer be suicidal.
It's even more frustrating because none of the characters do much of anything to be in any way compelling, and Veronika and Edward's inexplicable romance comes out of nowhere and has absolutely no chemistry at all.
This one, by comparison, is a boring dud. Veronika goes through a whole ritual in the opening of attempting suicide, being found by her landlord or neighbor or someone and rushed to the hospital where she's saved. What reasons were given for this suicide attempt were flimsy and incoherent, and honestly they shouldn't have bothered trying to justify it at all. Suicide is obviously a serious subject matter and what ever happens in someone's life to drive them to that point are of immense trauma and tragedy to everyone involved.
This film doesn't bother with any of that. Veronika is then checked in to some kind of psychiatric hospital where she is inexplicably singled out and laughed at by patients seemingly out of "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest", including a young guy who doesn't speak, Edward. The doctor there says that her suicide attempt via pill overdose caused her to have a massive aneurysm which cannot be treated and she will die within weeks or months.
During this time staying at the hospital, she mostly does nothing and talks to other people. None of the other characters are particularly memorable or interesting, and I've already completely forgotten what, if anything, they all discussed.
VERY late in the film, Veronika seems to notice Edward. Despite having almost no screen time with Edward, Veronika and Edward inexplicably fall in love, about 50 minutes in to the film.
From there, any hint of drama almost immediately dissolves into nonsense as Edward suddenly starts to speak, and he and Veronika decide to escape the psychiatric hospital, with the head doctor knowing this and doing nothing about it.
The head doctor then just leaves with some notes for his nurses claiming that Veronika was actually fine and wasn't going to die; he LIED about the EKG results out of some yoga-mom philosophical nonsense reasoning that only by thinking she was going to die could Veronika come to appreciate life and thus no longer be suicidal.
It's even more frustrating because none of the characters do much of anything to be in any way compelling, and Veronika and Edward's inexplicable romance comes out of nowhere and has absolutely no chemistry at all.