Last Night in Soho (2021). This was a divisive movie from the talk on this forum, but I enjoyed it. Some things it did really well, like showing how the female main character simultaneously is the 1960s It Girl singer Sandy, and also an observer of her, while in her dream state. That's how dreams are, and the colorful, glittering nature of the dream was well done as well, it's the MC's take on the shared vision, her mind making it more lively and grandiose than Soho was in real life. It's a unique ghost story, that's for sure, as the ghost was still alive, and the true ghost was the collective trauma behind her experience -- which mirrored the protag's own. Plus, it highlighted an era rapidly fading from the world's consciousness: the swinging sixties, but not the one of mods, rockers, and Mary Quant girls, the tawdry one of small-time gangsters and starstruck young women sucked into their orbit.
I wasn't fond of the ending.
The scenes of past London were very well done. I remember Picadilly Circle used to look just like that. At times, it felt like scenes from a James Bond flick, where 007 goes out for a night on the town to track the villain down at the nightclubs he frequents.
I wasn't fond of the ending.
The protag shouldn't have been so forgiving of old Sandy knowing old Sandy tried to kill her and her boyfriend. The final conflagration, too, was unnecessary. I wished they'd figured out a way to do it differently rather than KILL IT WITH FIRE! cliche.
My take on the male ghosts is that they weren't real, they were just scraps of Sandy's anger and guilt that had manifested to the protag.
My take on the male ghosts is that they weren't real, they were just scraps of Sandy's anger and guilt that had manifested to the protag.
The scenes of past London were very well done. I remember Picadilly Circle used to look just like that. At times, it felt like scenes from a James Bond flick, where 007 goes out for a night on the town to track the villain down at the nightclubs he frequents.
