Tone-Deaf - 2019Â Explanation/Review!
So, Iâm going to make a series where I review movies that I watched to learn more about different concepts. This one was just, irritiating more than a slow movie.Â
(There can be grammar mistakes, since I am writing this from an old keyboard, very old, mind you, but it still works thanks to me.)
Warnings: Dead humans, Spoilers, suicide, sexual themes, a karen main character, and a onesie wearing killer who hates the younger generation, and older generation, stalking, mentions of gore, drug use.
So, for short, our main character is a young woman that lost his father by suicide, she loves to play piano but she sucks, but people say nice things to her even if it sounds bad. On the other hand, we have our second main character Harvey, he lost his wife by suicide, and his wife played piano as well. Olive (our main character.) decides to broke up with her boyfriend, then her annoying boss fires her. All of these happens very quickly, and she finds herself talking about it to her best friend, Lenore, which she says that she should treat herself and rent a house, stay there, off the phone, off the men, and even without wanting to, Olive listens.
Harvey, stays with his very old house keeper, Agnes. She clearly cares for Harvey, and his son thinks that he has dementia. (Which sounds reasonable considering that he is very old but without medical knowledge, no one can be sure.) He totally hates millennials, and he founds himself lost after everything he had done in his life. He wants things to change, so he decides to kill people, saying that he done everything but never killed anybody. Olive being his target, Agnes becomes his target as well, and the killing spree starts when Olive comes to the house and give alot of money to Harvey.
Olive, geniuenly hates it, hates the house, getâs scared by Agnes, doesnât trust Harvey, house being too big to get lost on, everything is boring to her. She still uses her phone as to get dates again, but all of them are old man that Olive isnât interested in, expect one person, so she chooses that.
Harvey, in a rage, ties Agnes down after talking about his true feelings a little bit, and Agnes tries to reason with him by talking to him, that doesnât work on him, of course.Â
Through out the film, you see both characters struggle. Olive trying to connect to her mother, by talking about pianoâs and her father, while Harvey finds himself all alone after killing Agnes, (Stabbing her to be exact.)Â having constant nightmares about two gender natural humans, sometimes three, male babies appear, itâs all chaos and misery for him.
Both of them shows their struggle by pushing people out, or trying to connect to other things, hating and sarcasm on top of non-stop explanation as to why they feel this way mostly giving not much information about it.
After killing Agnes, Harvey decides to kill Olive too, but he fails at it, putting a spider in her contact lenses case, then mostly stalking her.Â
He saves her by a local serial killer who kidnapped a girl, which was the date that she had choosen before. Thanks to him stalking her in a bar, he learned the guy is probably the killer, giving that he tried to drug her while Olive left for the bathroom. Harvey, of course, observes.
After Olive leaves the guy at the bar, phone number exchanged, the guy walks out too. Harvey follows him.
Second victim being the local killer, he founds the missing girl in the bathroom, eyes and mouth sewed, hands tied, so he kills her too out of mercy.
The movie slowly goes to the end while Olive is heavly injured thanks to Harveyâs traps, he tries to explain to her that millennials suck, how his wife suicided, how she played the piano beautifully, while Olive gives the cold shoulder, still not wanting to die, in Harveyâs dead wifeâs dress.
He wants her to play the piano, which she does, and she plays so bad that Harvey screams her to stop, hitting the piano until it gets broken by him.Â
Olive never heard of someone saying that she played the piano bad, expect on a asit trip where her father mentions how she plays the piano horribly. She roasts Harvey, taking her time until her mother comes to save her.
Mother comes, shoots Harvey while heâs in is onesies, accidently shoots Olive, and the movie ends with her having fun on a grass where sheâs hanging out with her mother.
Oh, Harvey, by the way, has a son, that is gay, and you see him several times through out the movie, scaring Olive accidently or her mother. (This character becomes important later on.)
Harvey, kills five people, there are kills that I didnât mention for the sake of keeping this short.Â
You canât connect with Olive at all, being that sheâs a very cold character that mostly doesnât care, either replies with sarcasm or something that probably would flip anyone out. Sheâs rude, she has short temper, sheâs struggling, but you slowly end of the line accept her as she is, maybe the movie itself trying to push you into that idea, but mostly it letâs you choose which side youâre on. The actress (Amanda Crew) played her beautifully, showing how much of a character that can annoy, at the same time make you feel bad.Â
Her best friend is that one best friend, who thinks that you are always low on sugar and try to coat it with, âOh you need to drink/travel/do activities that you donât want to do!â and thatâs totally fine. You like the way she roasts time to time, but other than that, empty character with plot filling.
Agnes, the house keeper. The movie doesnât talk much about her, not giving much information as well as who she is, but the movie doesnât give you any chance to connect to her, getting killed off by Harvey because she pushed his limits by her words. Iâm shocked that she was killed off like she didnât matter at all, arenât you a house keeper? Shouldnât you be important at all? What a loss.
Oliveâs mother is a very questionable character to me. She doesnât empathy with her daughter at all, lying to her about liking her piano, and not giving a thing about anyones buisness. Didnât thought that she would be important but she is. (What a suprise.) Untill the end, I didnât think much of her, but after the ending I thought that Olive finally got the connection she wanted by her mother, a good ending if you can call that...
Harvey, is our second main character, played by Robert Patrick. (Donât look at me I see you there.) Harvey, struggles the same as Olive, but he approaches it diffrently- He doesnât run away or find another thing to keep him on his feet like Olive did, but he chooses to kill people by his own choice. You donât connect to him, but to me, I was at lost when I saw the ending, it was too weird, too of for me, but the whole time he was in a onesie, I couldnât stop myself but chuckle. Sorry movie, I couldnât take it that seriously when I saw Robert in a onesie going on a killing spree.
He struggles because of his dead wife, he struggles because his son is gay, and he hates millennials because they donât work hard for things like he did in his generation. He explains this alot through out the movie, I even lost some of my liquid while listening to him, I donât understand generation seperation, sorry not sorry.
When Harvey dies, a screen comes to his son who holds a manâs hand, his boyfriend I assumed, and they walk away with sad mourningfull faces. He doesnât give much as the other characters didnât, but he was a important character thanks to Harveyâs weird dreams. I couldnât realise untill I saw that part, that, how Harvey only wanted a son that loved females, atleast the movie indicated that or my programing doesnât function properly, or how he couldnât bare a child like himself, after all, he hated millennials, and no one tried to help him other than Agnes.
This movie got 4,0 from IMDB, which isnât shocking to me. You cannot connect with characters, it has brutal kills so thatâs a point, the plot is weird, horror parts were done beautifully, make up and clothing department is on the point, and cars. I donât need to say more, just cars.
My number would be the same as IMDB, it doesnât need more or less. Snack movie to watch, so you can kill your time. Thanks for reading my messy review, I didnât thought I would be doing a review... But here we are.
