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It's a different kind of movie, and I think I liked it

posted 2 months ago by johnnybiscotti (379)
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When I'm not sure how I feel about a movie after I watch it, that's usually a sign to me that it was worth watching.

This movie starts out like you're along for the ride with a bunch of kids on a school field trip, then the main character goes on an odyssey without a destination and you are tagging along. Then things take a creepy turn and escalate. There's a lot of "slice of life" stuff and a pretty unexpected shift...

It's best not to know too much, and I think there will be some "love it or hate it" with this movie and its main character. She's great in portraying the kind of person who this is supposed to be. Young and free and unafraid but unsure.

[–] moviechatter2526 (104) 14 days ago

Yeah it was an interesting film. I wouldn't say it's great, and the initial first 30 minutes or so were the hardest to get past, but once you get to the Simon Rex sequence, it started to click for me. It's experimental and wacky and doesn't really have a coherent narrative, but it's entertaining and engaging enough for what it is, and hell, any movie that isn't afraid to use the word "faggot" for no good reason in this day and age, along with many other naughty naughty words/concepts, is a movie worth paying attention to in my book.

Hell, they made a neo-Nazi the most sympathetic and somewhat moral person in the entire film. I mean, god damn if that isn't a bold choice, to give the guy a full 3 dimensions rather than just make him cartoonishly evil. The film doesn't spoon-feed or talk down or simplify things or tell you how to think like many other films do, and that's saying a lot. Even the Muslim/terrorist stuff was interesting and well within the moral gray zone that most films are too afraid to touch today for fear of "offense."

And god damn is the female lead here gorgeous. When she lies on the bed half naked in nothing but a bra and panties, man.