Watched this one as a blind pick for the podcast. 'The Life Before Her Eyes' is based on a well received book and is about a school shooting and it's aftermath. This is not something I knew going in so when it turned out to be a school shooting movie I was surprised, which is a strange kind of appropriate for a film tackling this subject matter. Evan Rachel Wood and Uma Thurman play the same character, Diana, 15 years apart. The Evan Rachel Wood stuff is legitimately good, the Uma Thurman parts less so. Pretentiously directed by Vadim Perelman who goes way too heavy on the symbolism and the interlocking motifs and devices. The film contains a twist that normally would piss me off, but by the time the movie gets around to it I didn't much care. Turns out this is also a Christian movie, but somewhat ambivalent about being one. **
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