stuff by paige

When Deadly Illusions popped up on my Netflix feed I added it straight to my watchlist. It sounded right up my street; a thriller drama revolving around an author who finds her life and her fiction blending with one another upon hiring a nanny.  On paper this sounds like a great premise, however within the first ten minutes I began to regret my decision to watch it. The acting and dialogue is extremely unrealistic to start with, with key narrative drivers being explained in a very on the nose way rather than leaving the viewer with space to piece the story together. These issues also went hand in hand with the films predictability, as within the first thirty minutes I had guessed the main plot elements which were to come. The one thing which I would say the film did somewhat well was blurring the line between fiction and reality, but I feel this should have been something which was implemented later into the film, as it already felt unrealistic to start with, meaning that the blur...