Nightmare Alley2021

Guillermo has made something that I want to call as a sophisticated soap opera. Why soap opera because the characterisation, the drama, the things that happen that I already know going to come but just that this is sophisticated in terms of everything. The look, beautiful atmospheric noir feel, the cinematography, Bradley’s performance, worthy-of-my-time screenplay all brings in that sophistication that the story needed. Otherwise this cud have well been an usual classic soap. I haven’t watched the original but this surely is the story for those times. It may not hold too well for modern age and may come across as “Seen-before”, but Guillermo’s firm focus on making this vastly engaging (if not distinctive) made it a brilliant watch for me. And those last few seconds of the final scene  - Wow.