{"id":305308,"date":"2021-07-22T09:58:02","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T06:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-broken-diamonds-review-a-cliched-indie-dramedy\/"},"modified":"2021-07-22T09:58:02","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T06:58:02","slug":"watch-broken-diamonds-review-a-cliched-indie-dramedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-broken-diamonds-review-a-cliched-indie-dramedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Broken Diamonds&#8217; Review: A Clich\u00e9d Indie Dramedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af91ff05b0d8\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af91ff05b0d8\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-broken-diamonds-review-a-cliched-indie-dramedy\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Broken_Diamonds_Review_A_Cliched_Indie_Dramedy%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Broken Diamonds&#8217; Review: A Clich\u00e9d Indie Dramedy&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-broken-diamonds-review-a-cliched-indie-dramedy\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Broken_Diamonds_Review_A_Cliched_Indie_Dramedy%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Broken Diamonds&#8217; Review: A Clich\u00e9d Indie Dramedy&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-broken-diamonds-review-a-cliched-indie-dramedy\/#optional_screen_reader\" >optional screen reader<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-broken-diamonds-review-a-cliched-indie-dramedy\/#Read_More_About\" >Read More About:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Broken_Diamonds_Review_A_Cliched_Indie_Dramedy%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Broken Diamonds&#8217; Review: A Clich\u00e9d Indie Dramedy&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Broken_Diamonds_Review_A_Cliched_Indie_Dramedy%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Broken Diamonds&#8217; Review: A Clich\u00e9d Indie Dramedy&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        There\u2019s more plucking acoustic guitar in \u201cBroken Diamonds\u201d than can be heard in your average coffee shop \u2014 one of innumerable indie filmmaking clich\u00e9s employed by \u201cBroken Diamonds,\u201d the story of a wannabe author, his schizophrenic sister and the crossroads they find themselves at when their father dies. Penned by Steve Waverly and directed by Peter Sattler (\u201cCamp X-Ray\u201d) with a dogged attention to cornball conventions, it strikes not a single authentic chord, and that also goes for the lead performance of Ben Platt, whose overdone theater-kid turn further dooms the material\u2019s stabs at humor and pathos. Consequently, the prognosis \u2014 for both its theatrical (July 23) and VOD (Aug. 23) releases \u2014 looks dire.<\/p>\n<p>On the eve of a move to Paris to try his hand at writing a novel, Scott (Platt) has his life upended when his dad dies, leaving him in charge of caring for his volatile sister, Cindy (Lola Kirke), who hears voices, acts unstably and has been a lifelong center-of-attention burden on Scott. Cindy promptly gets thrown out of the mental health facility in which she resides, meaning she\u2019s forced to join Scott in his soon-to-be-empty apartment \u2014 where, thanks to her loose-cannon condition, she causes a fire that compels them both to relocate to their dad\u2019s old place, now that their stepmom Cookie (Yvette Nicole Brown) has vacated it.<\/p>\n<p>Thus begins a misadventure of schmaltzy predictability. Scott intends to sell his dad\u2019s house but he can\u2019t get Cindy to sign the papers, just as he wants to hawk his car, only to have Cindy dent it. He tries to get Cindy a job, but she derails that employment endeavor through strange behavior. The pair run into Cindy\u2019s old friend Julia (Debs Howard), who\u2019s now a successful actor, and attend her going-away party, where Cindy makes a scene by practicing yoga and acting bizarrely around her high school boyfriend Billy (Edward Ruttle). Cindy subsequently tries to leap out of a moving car, rails at her brother for seeking to abandon her for France, stops taking her medication and goes MIA, all as Scott rolls his eyes with exasperation, voices his frustration via sarcastic comments and fumes over his sister\u2019s interference with his plans.<\/p>\n<p>Absentee parents, wacko siblings, dreams of escape, crazy high jinks, suicide attempts, snarky humor, repeated flashbacks to fragmented (and uniformly silent) childhood memories and climactic healing and reconciliation are all part of \u201cBroken Diamonds\u2019\u201d hackneyed stew, which director Sattler sets to a stream of plaintive singer-songwriter ballads and portentous orchestral arrangements. Not once does the film deviate from its stock narrative and formal template, thereby rendering everything twee, strained and unbelievable. Moreover, rather than taking Cindy\u2019s mental health issues seriously, Waverly\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a> conceives of her as simply a catalyst for comedic and\/or sad chaos, as well as a device designed to facilitate Scott\u2019s transformation.<\/p>\n<p>That change comes after Scott\u2019s own hang-ups are concisely and explicitly diagnosed by Cindy\u2019s therapist in what stands as the clunkiest scene in a movie full of them. Such hokey gracelessness abounds, including from Platt, who over-delivers with every line, expression and gesture. There\u2019s an artificial performative quality to Platt\u2019s embodiment of Scott, with the actor going big at all times with smirks, sighs, smiles and tears. 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