Straight up - FUCK THIS MOVIE!
If you want a cinema induced migraine - go ahead and buy a ticket.
I hadn't been inside a movie theater in six months, and my first visit back I'm subjected to this nonsense. I'm glad some people are getting something out of it, I simply do not get it. I watched I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS the day before, and that was a walk in the park to parse out as it had…
The cinema is essentially my church, and Malick the pastor to deliver one hell of sermon.
I had a blast with this film. I’m amazed that most people don’t seem to have enjoyed it as much as me. I wasn’t familiar with Ray Nicholson before this, but he is hamming it up just like his father did and having a blast. Alba Baptista has some of the funniest line deliveries I’ve seen in a long time. It’s not easy to play and pull of madcap crazy but Nicholson and Baptista pull it. Plus you got Jimmy…
All that much more scary because Freddy doesn’t want sex but wants true love from the girl he kidnapped and keeps in his basement. A young man whose notions of love and relationships, as well as art and literature, are so limited and malformed that it becomes dangerous is sadly all too relevant nowadays. Maybe more-so than when the film was made.
There are better films that explore this subject with more nuance and consideration. The fact that it uses a twist of sorts to make its point felt cheap overall. There is value in reminding people of the issue at hand, and how hard it hits certain people in certain states, but dramatically it’s inert.
Also, a terrible title for a film with this subject matter.
