Live Life Team
As soon as one picks up a review about this movie and reads the premise, it is easy to think it will be a comedy. But that is not the case at all. This is a story of two sisters, Rose and Norah, who enter into a most unlikely business venture — cleaning up crime scenes. This involves dealing with the blood, gore and other aspects of the most base of our society’s underside.
It’s not as if these sisters were close. Since their school years, both of their lives have taken a downturn. One couldn’t seem to hold onto a job, and the other one found herself cleaning her former classmates’ homes. When one of the sisters gets ahead on a hot new career opportunity in crime-scene clean-up, the two sisters decide to try to make a go of it. After all, it’s not like they have any other hot prospects on the horizon.
Well, the long and short of it is that their business is a hit and the sisters’ lives, not to mention their relationship with each other, are suddenly on the upswing. The only problem is that the film doesn’t seem to go anywhere after that, and the plot becomes very loosely structured.
Sunshine Cleaning could have been a much better movie than it turned out to be if only the director and the writers had paid more attention to the direction in which they wanted it to go. Instead, it appears they had no real plans for the movie’s premise, and it plays almost like a reality television series.
I enjoyed the film but was disappointed that it wasn’t much better plotted.
