This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I was really impressed by the film's ability to capture a realistic, minimalist image of the internet. Something that could only be truly authentic to it's director. Even including real videos and creators as to not "speak down to the world that it’s trying to represent."
Nothing else in the film really works for me. The film tackles issues of identity and consoling in internet groups for validation or acceptance, but the execution feels like a first draft. The idea…
The hate this film gets is lowkey undeserved
Some fairly authentic caricatures, personalities I'm not used to seeing on screen. The harshness of Rikako can feel overdone at times sure, but the subtext of maturing and looking back on your youth makes sense under that context.
There's some message buried within this movie, but nothing much below the surface. What you get is what you get, and that's an alright portrait on an over-saturated genre of high school love affairs.
About as perfect as you can imagine for an anti-war film, from the symbolism to the characters and even the story of it's creation, fascinating.
Film started here for all I know.
My friend wants to fuck Pedro Pascal and my other friend wants to fuck the robot with tentacle arms, I just want to be a mother
