Let Go Review (2024, Netflix) | Leisurebyte
Director: Josephine Bornebusch
Date Created: 2024-11-01 12:30
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In this Netflix drama film, Stella juggles the demands of her family including her young son, moody daughter and distant husband which leaves her exhausted. However, when she suddenly takes a family trip, they have no other option but to come together and meet each other halfway. Will Stella be able to save her family and her own sanity from breaking down?
The film has a runtime of 110 minutes.
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Let Go Movie Cast
Josephine Bornebusch, Sigrid Johnson, Pål Sverre Hagen, Olle Tikkakoski Lundström
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Let Go Netflix Director and Writer
Josephine Bornebusch
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Let Go Review
When Let Go starts, we are clearly told that patriarch Gustav is an absent parent and husband in his relationship with Stella and their two children Anna and Manne. The hate for Gustav doesn’t go away when we move on to find out he is having an affair with his colleague and exchanging sweet nothings with her… along with other things… and is apathetic at best for the wellbeing of his children. Angela is more caring of his children than he is and that says a lot about the state of the marriage and how men think that they can just forget their previous marriages and kids the moment they get on with someone fresh and (most of the time) younger.
Of course, the film tries to be fair – Stella is a control freak who won’t let anyone do anything without having a say in it. She won’t let Gustav get the divorce get abandon their children easily, for which he calls her a control freak. She wants Anna to not forge her signature and go off on a trip alone – again because she is such a control freak. I felt for Stella during these moments, being a single parent while dragging the dead weight of an absent parent with two rowdy kids is tough. And then there’s the audacity of being called names when she simply wants her family to be healthy and happy.
Netflix drama film Let Go is a test of not feeling triggered at every moment. The movie is just such a baffling watch that, for some reason, we have a lengthy discussion about how Stella should go out of her way while raising two moody kids to include Gustav in everything about the children so that he doesn’t look like he is a total deadbeat. I was floored when Stella actually didn’t mention that as a father, he himself should be making his space in their parenting decisions instead of waiting for his wife to help him. It reminds me of those bad relationship advice articles on Reddit – it’s unbelievable and infuriating how much we coddle this manbaby so that he can take the trophy of a sometimes present father.
The problem is that the film doesn’t demonise it enough. We harp on about Stella being a control freak but honestly, what other choice does she have? Whatever responsibility he is given, he is unable to fulfil them. I mean, someone has to take care of the family, right? And then comes the most infuriating part of the film which feels like a get-out-of-jail-free card to get people to take the person’s feelings seriously. Unless women are actively dying, they are never taken seriously and this movie just introduces that because why not? It’s not enough torture that Frank from the pole dancing competition place seemingly gets aroused by underage teenagers, we now have to face a lazy and insulting choice to sympathise with the characters and give Gustav a major reward for doing what he should been already doing.
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This film is infuriating. There are not many movies out that bring out this amount of anger in me but, being written and directed by a woman, I expect more. This could’ve been such an emotional and relatable story of a family at a crossroads but it’s just a surface-level exploration that does nothing for the characters or for the storyline in any way. It’s just a cruel and unfeeling movie that makes you feel horrible at every point because apparently, everyone in Stella’s life is horrible and cruel.
Final Thoughts
I don’t know what I feel about this movie, just that I failed to understand the teaching or the point behind it. It’s incredibly triggering and takes the laziest approach to solving a family conflict. I wish it was better, but the cruelty people put each other through, especially towards Stella, is abhorrent and quite foreign to me and the film does a terrible job of bringing the emotions out because you don’t want to give Gustav the easy way out as the film seemingly wants to do.
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This review is completely off the mark. So, you want the wife to scream at her absent husband to satisfy some millennial rage? She was too sick, too tired and too drowning to manage that. This was a gorgeous and tender film: the review of it here has been been handled with a hammer.
I love this movie
Boring scenes where they talking in 5-12 minutes straight, 1-4 times trought the movie,
Yes agreed 1 star, bringing weapons in the airport, god lord…very much none likable actors….
A whole movie with arguments between the actors or just screaming their lungs out….
A very negative movie, except the last dance scene, finally the mom for once actually smiled, all before that she’s acting like she was death herself,
Cancer huh? Why dont show it a bit earlier not just in the end, like losing hair, bleeding, like a wake up call too the wiwers, it could happen to anybody any time….even if the parents are shities/drug/drunk/angry/boring as hell on this planet, try to stay with them anyway….support people support….
Another Swedish in my pile of trash, it will be forgotten 5 min after the end….or change movie…could been better….
You must have missed so many details. When she eats the morfin the first time, there was the paper which said “how to tell the kids” and the cancer-logo on it. So they stated it half way through. And then in the shower, she feels the tumor with her hand as well. She pukes. Her blurry look when she tried to focus. It was all adding to the story of a sick and terrified mum, in need of a family which could carry and support each other. To me it was beautiful to see him slowly stepping back into the family and chosing them, without knowing anything about the sickness. It would have been weak if that would have been the gamechanger. He took the role as the father, and then she could let go.
yup. a father brushing his kid’s teeth is like omg wow astonishing – where’s his ‘sometimes present father trophy’ like you said. and the fact that he cannot watch his daughter’s strong and talented dance performance without sex getting in the way is misogyny – he cannot see a woman’s characteristics aside from sex – he cannot see a woman at all. this is the definition of misogyny. he cannot even look at her. all he can see is his own sexuality over her face body and mind. he is blinded by his own sex – ignorant – disgusting.
Wow. A little to much personal stuff brought to the theater. And too much talking? Seriously? Some really crazy reviews that shed more light on the person writing the review than the movie, itself.