i think iām gonna see my private hell after work today (i wanna go sooner rather than later bc i donāt think itās staying in the theaters near me for very long) iām excited to see why people are walking out. my current theories are 1. gratuitous rape scene(s), 2. gratuitous violence against women, 3. the plot gets frustratingly fucky and nonsensical, or 4. a combination of the first three things.
so it was literally just number 3. this movie was so much tamer than i expected. itās been a while since i watched the neon demon but i vaguely remember it being a little too slow for me, and this is like that times a million.
my official review is this is like if verotika had a bigger budget, a better cinematographer, talented actors, and no nudity.
i have some miscellaneous thoughts so spoilers below
itās actually crazy that there was no nudity like what the fuck are we doing?
i wish we actually saw charles melton murder women, and i wish he murdered a lot more of them. he has a great serial killer face and itās barely utilized. yeah he gets into some fights, and those are great! but he wasnāt really doing any of that as the leatherman, and then when he was the leatherman he had that fuckass mask on.
sophie thatcher and havana rose liu had really good chemistry, i wish there were more scenes of them just talking. if you made a compilation of all the scenes of them talking, and then one of all the moments where an actor is silently staring past the camera while the music swells, i think the latter would be longer (not literally, thatās just how it felt).
i wish the candyfloss shit was in the movie more? both the comic and the movie adaptation.
i also wish we saw those two ladies literally turn into foxes. or at least alter their forms in some way.
i also also wish the father was more memorable in his scenes at the beginning so i could more easily feel his presence later when he wasnāt physically there. i think i just have a problem with the actor, his performance didnāt stand out to me and his face is forgettable.
it kinda sucks that the beginning of the movie introduces sophie and havana and their whole relationship, and then thereās this huge chunk of time dedicated to charles. his stuff was good, it was more entertaining, but then when sophie and havana finally got to do some shit it felt weird because we hadnāt seen them in so long.
i know sophieās actions toward havana near the end didnāt come out of nowhere but it felt like they did. i donāt know how to articulate this feeling.
i like this movie more thinking about it now than i did when i was watching it. i like the ideas, the cast, the aesthetic. even the music sometimes! it was just so fucking slow, and not in a way i enjoy. this movie gave me the same feeling that i think mother mary gave certain people.
i think iām gonna see my private hell after work today (i wanna go sooner rather than later bc i donāt think itās staying in the theaters near me for very long) iām excited to see why people are walking out. my current theories are 1. gratuitous rape scene(s), 2. gratuitous violence against women, 3. the plot gets frustratingly fucky and nonsensical, or 4. a combination of the first three things.
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