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Emily the Criminal – A movie with so much right

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I don’t expect movies to be 100% real life, but I loose my interest when there are too many short cuts taken by the writers, or the individuals that cut a film to leave holes in the flow. No one in life jumps around the world in a moments notice, too many things just being perfectly timed without hiccups, or endless hiccups at every turn. Emily in Emily the Criminal (Netflix) didn’t suddenly have super firearm skills when things got tough. She didn’t instantly become a car handling chase expert when someone takes after her. Every decision is based on reasonable life experiences and took a path that a person would that has a reasonably clear head. Sure, there are those that would have fallen apart with the challenges that presented themselves. Also, there isn’t a ‘snapped’ moment where there is finally enough, instead like in live, things build up and people make decisions based on their life.

Emily the Criminal is very well produced, with pacing flows nicely, so the movie isn’t just constant edge of the seat action, as well non of the watching a person go through a process that feels like a fill to get the movie to the right length (Disney has resorted to that now, sadly). There are personal moments that most will relate to. A date that isn’t a date, taking someone to see mom to keep mom happy shows an understanding of an individuals family value without having to say anything.

The ending is a logical path that will surprise but yet not be a surprise, with enough explained to let the viewer fill in what may have happened and what may happen in the future. The director doesn’t find the need to have a voice over explaining. Actually, there are several possible paths for supporting individuals that could have happened to get to the ending, the director chose to show enough to know nothing good took place without having to nail down the particulars.

I’m sure Emily the Criminal will be overlooked by those wanting big explosions or long romances. For folks that want enough tense moments, recognizable actors/actresses, real life feeling challenges, and decisions they feel they need to think how they would have gone, this is a must experience movie.

Text to audio for handsfree ‘reading’.

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Let’s kick things off with a positive.

Popular Science posted a article “How to convert text articles into audio (and why you might want to)“. It is a nice article covering different ways of listening to text content on your mobile device. Offering options for built in options as well as 3rd party apps.

I’m a fan of listening to books, and web sites on my iPhone on my walks so the title had my interest. I’m happy to see the content matched up to the title promise.

OK, “Lets Boogie”

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I created this site many years ago as a place to state my observations. I had a few other collaborators that added things here and there. Then, we got a bit side tracked with life as well as actual content direction.

I cleared the plate and decided to hone in on a pet peeve of mine, articles and news that don’t deliver on the promise. Their headlines make a statement, then when I read the article or watch of video, they either only lightly hit on the subject, or they don’t at all.

Sadly, while my commenting/posts here will point out the win and failures, my posting a reference to bad content still gives is references in the mind of the great search engines. Perhaps they will scan my text in those cases and see it is a negative review so push the article down instead of thinking that any reference is a win for the content.

Lets give this a try…