Ok.. was like The Secret History meets Call Me By Your Name meets The Talented Mr Ripley. Such a crazy journey with insanely talented performances and beautiful cinematography.
I know there’s been a lot of narrative around the class depictions in the film. Claims that it is sympathetic to the rich and paints lower classes badly. Firstly, what’s so bad about being sympathetic to the rich? They are also just people. You can get lovely rich people and cunty rich…
This movie was so magical!
Watched this during a sick day in bed and it was definitely a good one to watch while in a slightly feverish state - firstly I was just impressed by the FRIED imagery and that they had the guts to do something really fucking weird and trippy and adventurous and fantastical in a film because we don’t get that much anymore, and isn’t that the beauty of being able to create whatever you want with…
This was an interesting movie. Definitely my least favourite Korine but I appreciate the kind of vivid chaotic interesting imagery he was going for, like in all of his films. I doubt there’s a wider ‘message’ to the film - given the way I’ve heard him speak about his work in numerous interviews it doesn’t seem like something he’s interested in. He seems to work back from an image he gets fixated on (girls in bikinis with ski masks on…
