{"id":6854,"date":"2020-06-12T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T13:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-departure-movie-review\/"},"modified":"2020-06-12T16:17:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T13:17:00","slug":"the-departure-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-departure-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"#The Departure Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 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-6a393ca9165fd\" 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-6a393ca9165fd\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-departure-movie-review\/#Monica_Castillo\" >Monica Castillo<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-departure-movie-review\/#The_Departure_2020\" >The Departure (2020)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#The Departure<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/review\/primary_image\/reviews\/the-departure-movie-review-2020\/the-departure-movie-review-2020.jpg\"><\/img><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>When I watch a movie for review, I usually will jot down some notes\u2014a thought, a quote or an idea I can use when I sit down to write. In the case of Merland Hoxha\u2019s \u201cThe Departure,\u201d my first note was \u201cwhy does this movie exist?\u201d An hour and change later when the credits rolled, I still couldn\u2019t answer my own question. My best guess to explain this vile movie is that it\u2019s based on some nasty relationship drama, and we\u2019re all invited to watch Hoxha work his way through some still-lingering resentment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<p>\u201cThe Departure\u201d begins with an awkward date between John (Austin Lauer) and Amber (Olivia Lemmon). It\u2019s painful to watch these two bumble their way through small talk before Amber\u2019s attention shifts to her phone. \u201cThe Departure\u201d then moves on to a more established couple, Nate (Grant Gunderson) and Jessica (Kendall Ch<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\">app<\/a>ell), who are thankfully past the awkward dating stage and are in the throes of planning a life together. The next day Nate\u2019s boss gives him a six-month assignment that will take him from Los Angeles to New York City. It\u2019s an offer he simply can\u2019t refuse, but rather than worrying about how they\u2019re going to make a long-distance relationship work, Nate hatches a half-baked plan to ask his best friend John to seduce Jessica to see if she will cheat on him. It goes about as well as a multi-car pile-up on the 405.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Written, produced and directed by Merland Hoxha, \u201cThe Departure\u201d lacks any kind of reflection that could make this premise work. Nate feels vindicated by how well his sociopathic trap works and shows almost no conflict guilting his girlfriend for her actions. It\u2019s as if we were watching an abusive relationship from the point-of-view of the manipulative partner, his jealousy ignited and justified because his girlfriend mentions her funny male co-worker more than once. Ah, can\u2019t have friends of the opposite sex! That\u2019s grounds for suspicion. When John tells Jessica the truth about the plan and how he\u2019s always had feelings for her, it feels like a bandaid solution to take the bitterness out of a jealous partner\u2019s sting operation. It&#8217;s not redemption, just chilling and gross to watch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If the story was bad, I\u2019m sorry to report the film\u2019s craft is not much better. Ludovica Isidori and Wey Wang\u2019s cinematography doesn\u2019t account for lighting mistakes or messy handheld shots. In the scene where Nate recruits John for his scheme, the lighting noticeably changes between the two actors who look to be sitting in a strangely empty corner of the city. Hoxha\u2019s script is clunky and its dialogue simplistic. I don\u2019t know how else to explain why one of the millennials in this movie must define ghosting to someone else their age. Everybody\u2019s job seems pretty nebulous, even though it&#8217;s a character\u2019s job that affects everyone. In one scene, John interrupts Jessica in what looks like a fitness class to ask her to check out a bar with him, which is not normally something that would go over well in a gym. And for some frustrating reason, Amber and John struggle a couple of times to remember the name of a recent horror movie (\u201cGerald\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Game<\/a>\u201d) as if neither of them has phones that connects to the internet. With these kinds of underwritten interactions, no wonder the performances look so wooden. Not even the actors believe the lines they\u2019re reciting.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<p>One last bothersome detail is how often the couple complains that they\u2019ve \u201cnever spent this much time apart,\u201d as if all flights to New York and Los Angeles have suddenly stopped and video calls don\u2019t exist yet. It\u2019s just one of the many mundane details missing from the script, but it\u2019s not enough to distract from the movie\u2019s sinister attitude towards women. There\u2019s even a moment when John tells Jessica \u201cYou\u2019re not really an angel, either,\u201d as if any of this was her fault. If you haven\u2019t noticed already, Amber is wildly inconsequential to the story, adding to the unsettling feeling that women are disposable in this man\u2019s world. At least she\u2019s spared a vengeful and sanctimonious partner who insists \u201cI\u2019m going to make her confess.\u201d The last word in my notes on this movie was \u201cew.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Monica Castillo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/user\/primary_image\/monica-castillo\/featured_Monica-9254.jpg\" title=\"Monica Castillo\"><\/img><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div><figcaption>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Monica_Castillo\"><\/span>Monica Castillo<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>Monica Castillo is a freelance writer and University of Southern California Annenberg graduate film critic fellow. Although she originally went to Boston University for biochemistry and molecular biology before landing in the sociology department, she went on to review films for The Boston Phoenix, WBUR, Dig Boston, The Boston Globe, and co-hosted the podcast \u201cCinema Fix.\u201d\u00a0<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section> <\/section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Departure movie poster\" itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/movie\/movie_poster\/the-departure-2020\/large_departure-poster.jpg\" title=\"The Departure movie poster\"><\/img><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Departure_2020\"><\/span> The Departure (2020) <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p> <meta content=\"NR\" itemprop=\"contentRating\"><\/meta> Rated NR  <\/p>\n<p> 70 minutes <meta content=\"PT70M\" itemprop=\"duration\"><\/meta><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/streaming\/home-entertainment-guide-june-11-2020\/thumb_Unmarried_still.jpeg\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> about 24 hours ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/interviews\/paving-the-way-shola-lynch-on-chisholm-72-unbought-and-unbossed\/thumb_Shola_Lynch_Interview.JPG\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> about 24 hours ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/interviews\/loren-bouchard-on-central-park-appletv\/thumb_Central_Park_Photo_010204.jpg\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> 3 days ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/interviews\/judd-apatow-on-the-king-of-staten-island-telling-pete-davidsons-story-self-help-books-and-more\/thumb_apatow-header.jpg\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> 4 days ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/the-departure-movie-review-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Like this articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/social-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Social Media category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>if you want to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watch Movies<\/a> or Tv Shows go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a> <\/span> for forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#The Departure&#8221; When I watch a movie for review, I usually will jot down some notes\u2014a thought, a quote or an idea I can use when I sit down to write. 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