Gregg Araki superimposes queer and futuristic aesthetics on top of an oppressive reality to create a dark, twisted, funny, sensual, and just plain fucked up narrative about queer adolescence, romance, abuse, and the end of the world (as we know it).
The metaphor of the alien apocalypse as a means to understand the impending sense of doom that I would say that all teenagers feel towards the end of their high school careers, but is especially bleak for queer teens…
A film that understands that most of the time comedy works best when paired with deep tragedy, one of those movies that makes you wonder why a story like this has never told bc it’s so compelling, completely relatable in its character dynamics while also being absurd in its plot line, which made it very entertaining, but also devastating when it needed to be, because you know what’s gonna happen, and you’re pretty sure it’ll be shitty, but man it sucks when you’re right, again… mikey madison is truly magnetic and should most definitely blow the eff up after this,
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I liked it! Sue me!
I think the thing that seems to be going over everyone’s heads and under their noses, and what I think ultimately makes this film stand out is the fact that the lead protagonist is a Black woman, and the supporting cast is all white people, at a glance at least, and the only other Black character that noticeably shows up is the one who helps her which I think plays into the whole thing as…
Not scary or funny enough to break out of the slump that most straight to streaming movies fall into, which is to say that it is so middle of the road that it isn’t even middle of the road anymore it’s just kinda bad, but also it was decent enough to watch in the background and chuckle a little bit.
