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I won't lie, I wasn't really looking forward to seeing this movie, but when I read the synopsis I felt excited to watch it being a fan of Thriller, Mystery and Crime narratives. The Little Things, released in 2021, starts with a tense scene, initially strange in an unconventional way, but the simple act of having a car in the middle of nowhere brings a sense of anguish with the character, we feel that fear and fear for possible disaster. If the film were like that, it would undoubtedly be a great thriller, but the direction the plot takes is completely different.

At this point, the film starts to lose points with me, as the story progresses, the less interested I am with the plot that is on the fence about being a standard thriller or being a film that seeks to do a psychological study of the characters, keeping in the air the constant doubt of all Freud-level actions. But this indecision in deciding what it wants to be, made the film a bit boring and dull for me. I believe that the proposal could be much better explored, because the idea is actually good, the ending made me excited to the point of creating a theory of what happened, but the whole execution of the film did not hold me as I imagined.

But it is still a film worth seeing, it has a standard proposal for a Police Mystery, but with an interesting twist, without any interest in delivering an answer on a platter. All in all, it's an interesting film, but one that could have been much better used.

Honestly, I expected more from this film, overall it was a rather disappointing experience with an unattractive and unnecessarily confusing narrative. During most of the passages of time I got lost in the narrative, as the characters seem the same after 20 years, without any trace of aging, and to complete the confusion, the time changes are dry cuts, without any interconnection between one and the other. Other.

Look, the film has good things, but it's too long and not very flashy, I'd even say boring, and that's impressive because I'm a person who enjoys slow movies, but the tone of this one simply made me distance myself from the main plot. A story that seeks to explore the drama of a man's life at the beginning of the CIA, merging the division of lies and mysteries between work and family, necessarily needs to create an emotional bond between viewer and character. This movie just can't do that, all the characters are uninteresting and boring, exaggeratedly dark and sleepy, I don't think even Dark left me with this harrowing feeling of seeing everything and everyone looking sleepy.

On the other hand, the setting is very good, Robert de Niro knows how to direct the scenes quite well. The soundtrack is also very engaging at times. But otherwise I genuinely have nothing to say about it, I was expecting a mystery narrative with a family connection. The film even has a mystery thing that lasts all 2h40m, but it's so dull and confusing that it didn't involve me at all. I expected more from this movie, but I was disappointed with the experience.