Shining Girls (2022)
7/10
Unanswered Questions.
5 June 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Love the main actors, love sci-fi. Really wanted to love this film but I'm left with too many questions. Why did the killer leave objects in the women? How did he pick his women? Elizabeth's character explained that he went after women her were on the cusp of reaching success- but how is that since he obviously chose Elizabeth's character as his victim when only a child?! (He gave her the horse on the steps). Why did he pick her? Why follow her through the years? There's No explanation for any of it. I was waiting for a really clever answer on him stalking her for so long.

The idea of him leaving photos for the women seemingly taken in real time and calling them knowing exactly what they would say was a great concept, one of the scariest elements- but there was no explanation for that either.

Why does the surroundings change and alternate lives take place because he kills someone?

How is Kirby connected to the killings so that her life stance keeps changing, job, husband, apartment, etc. There's no real explanation for that.

Jin Sook, the astrologer (?) how does Dan being killed change her fate from PH'd to drop out?

In the fight scene between the killer and Kirby- she changes the scenery and he doesn't know how, never is explained.

Early on they had enough information to try harder to track him down but didn't do anything with it! Lastly the ending was flat. There was nothing to it. I don't feel enough time was spent explaining the killer and his motives or actions therefore leaving all these unanswered questions.

I've searched the internet to see if it explains the hidden objects in victims and can't find anything. It also seems they could have done more with the plot line to benefit the killer with the time change with regard to acquiring money or identities or access to things. That would have been fun to see, how he used that to his benefit to choose, stalk, harass victims.

Overall it's worth watching but at the very least the ending was plain. There's this whole buildup to stopping the killer, then he's stopped and that's that. Film over!
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