Wednesday, December 18, 2024

I thought Tarot was Ouija

On the occasions I've had to think of Spenser Cohen and Anna Halberg's Tarot -- which have not been a lot, but there have been a few -- I've always thought I would probably leave it unseen for my 2024 rankings.

"I don't really need to see a movie about a stupid ouija board," I'd tell myself.

Of course, when I got to actually watching the movie last night, as a way to usher in my departure for America with something undemanding after two straight nights of foreign films, I had a slightly different perspective on it:

"Ohhhhhh, Tarot is about tarot cards, not a ouija board."

It was just a case of conflating two probably similar things, not an actual failure to understand what the movie was about, though I couldn't really tell you if Tarot is similar to the 2014 film Ouija (ten years old? really?) because I haven't seen the latter. 

I can tell you that Tarot was slightly better than I imagined it would be, which still doesn't make it more than a two out of five stars. I considered 2.5 for a hot minute, but then thought better of it.

Now if it had also fit in a ouija board, then, maybe.

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