This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I really liked it and wish I could write why but it all feels like word vomit whenever I try to fully form something!!! mainly obsessively thinking about how it toes the line of the tightly structured routines offering safety and this distraction from reality but at the same time being so suffocating and monstrously terrifying because of how easily the control of things can slip.
She’s forced to detach and come to terms with her only driving force is…
Very much love how this explores suburbia, and the way in which Jeffrey is able to insert himself in to someone else’s life, exploit them for his own gain then effortlessly slip back out and return back to normalcy. It’s just a blip in his life but when we see Dorothy at the end there’s obvious signs of pain and trauma still there and that’s suggested just through music and Isabella’s expression…So subtle but so very impactful.
I also think…
This film made me never want to get a credit card and I think that’s a good lesson to have instilled at the young age I was
This is a source of a lot of my childhood terror and watching it again wasn’t as bad. I think I’ll still have nightmares about the weird tall man with sharp teeth, the beginning was horrific when I was 6.
