A movie not without his flaws and too candid for people's trendy cynicism.
But I found myself surrendering to the device and it's additive nature.
In that way the narrative is build on stack upon stack of informations/details makes it honestly quite tideous for the first half.
But it has the decency to be only 1h40.
You will feel every second of that length to be honest.
But as the movie builds up and deals with hardships, death and nostalgia…
I understand the aestethics of satire and I am not looking for subtelty here BUT no matter where I tried to meet the movie it never clicked for me.
I'll give the movie 9 minutes where it worked.
That one scene where Demi's character is going on a date just to experience being valued again but can't bear the way she looks now because 100% of what surrounds her screams YOUNG!!
Right down to the clothes she puts on.
And…
An absolutely delicious movie!
Never been so intently on the side of a protagonist from minute 1 of a movie.
Aaron Pierre is absolutely magnetic.
There's points where the guy just feels like a tsunami that won't be stopped for anything and he just does that with a look.
The 1st hour is nothing but a noose that keeps getting tighter.
Jeremy Saulnier knows how to build freakin' tension.
Also the writing is a big standout. You feel like you're…
Much more bleak, and much more sad than expected... the performances are all great but found it to drag quite a bit in the middle.
Thankfully the movie REALLY lands it's ending. Gutwrenching and beautiful at the same time.
It's the kind of ending that makes you revisit everything you've experience in the movie in your mind. And stays with you after you left the cinema.
Worth to see for how much this ending makes the movie IMO.
