Review of Margaret's Museum (1995) by Jane H — 04 Apr 2007

This started out pretty dull and continued to be so. I think it had very high ideas of creating this beautiful, romance.. two dreamers living alone on the rough coast in a house the built themselves but really it didn't quite achieve that or anything else really.

And then that ending which was just plain weird and pretty disturbing. The idea of Margaret ending up in the nut house was pretty inevitable - the moment her mother suggested it you knew that was where the film was heading but did it have to go via such a weird route!!! And then to make it all worse they tried to go for a political message in the dying moments; now I am not saying that the mines weren't expoiting people I am just saying that Margaret didn't collect those trophies to make a political statement (with the exception of the lungs perhaps) she did it because of some sort of strange and twisted sentimentality and although one could say that they were reminders of lives that were lost I just feel that the political judgement fell flat on its face.