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The cherubic Lily Cole is Ernessa, the mysterious transfer student in 'The Moth Diaries'
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inSing.com Thinks: At 82 minutes long, ‘The Moth Diaries’ isn't a very long movie. Unfortunately
for it though, we did glance at our watch many times throughout, waiting for its inevitable ending.
And while the movie does attempt to tackle a difficult subject topic in Rebecca's suicidal
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As a movie, it trudges along at an almost relaxed pace, trying to set up the chills slowly and at a
more traditional pace that unfortunately doesn't come through. The way that Rebecca’s friends get
taken away one by one seems ludicrous and even the deaths feel like they don't really matter all;
it's just not very scary.
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The main problem of the movie is that the story hinges a lot on the question of whether Ernessa is
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And because of the nature of film, most people would tend to assume that Ernessa does exist and
isn't a figment of Rebecca's imagination. Additionally, as most of the movie takes place in the
school and much of what Rebecca does is just watching Lucie together with Ernessa, get jealous
and then proceed to sulk, it results in many of the scenes feeling somewhat oddly paced, repetitive
and predictable.
Lily Cole does possess the face to play such the role of Ernessa exuding the anti-social creepiness
required of the role. She's pretty much the only scary bit of the movie which isn't saying much of
the movie's scariness as a whole.
Although the film deals with the intense emotions of female adolescence – human or otherwise –
director Mary Harron (in the most movie spoiler kind of way) pours cold water over it in this effort.
Also armed with Sapphic undertones, jealousy, a rather compelling question and not to mention all
the necessary ingredients for a proper vampire thriller – blood, sex (some), death – ‘The Moth
Diaries’ has some potential but the subject matter was just too much of a challenge to put on
screen. Even its purposed links to the classic 1872 novella ‘Carmilla’ can't save it.
The movie just isn't very entertaining or scary and it certainly could have benefited with a better
visual treatment, a bit of character development, a straight-up plot and more carefully crafted
scenes.
Well then, there’s always that OTHER vampire movie coming out at the end of the year.
‘The Moth Diaries’ open in theatres 21 June
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