This movie is just insanely good. In a sad/dark way, it's for 70% of the time a "oh my God, the world is full of jerks" mind boggling good kind of movie. But, good Lord, the movie is awesome.
Ok, I will try to call down a bit. Let's start this.
First, just the atmosphere of the movie is incredible, the use of color most of the time, makes you feel like they are jumping out of the screen, and you just get transport into the world from the jump. Great cinematography, as really most of this year's Oscars nominated are, but with its own and unique style that I loved.
The acting is phenomenal, Carey Mulligan... man, I mean, she's fantastic. You feel the weight of Nina's story from the first times she is mentioned in a conversation, just through Carey's performance here, you are, as the jerks in the bar, easily fooled into thinking she's really drunk in the first scene of the movie, all throughout you get at the same time empathic for her, but you are also scared to death lol. Such a well written character, with so many layers to it. Amazing.
And honestly, pretty much everyone here is great, Alison Brie is awesome as always, Alfred Molina, and even McLovin himself, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, is here, been awesome. Great cast.
Bo Burnham tho is also amazing, and his character in a weird way, sort of is a mix of most of the things about this movie that got into my core the most (in a good way). Cause, for the most part of the movie, you really like him, he's a great dude, you are happy they are happy, and, well, I will have to say pretty early on I was like "yep, he's gonna be involved in the raped in some way", but man, it's just heartbreaking when you see the finale plays out the way it does, that, with Cassandra been killed is just like "holy moly, we do really live in this world, right?". And it's a gut punch, but I know that was the point of the whole story, and well, they couldn't have done it better.
At the end of the day, the movie's story is powerful, it manages to throw a light in... well, how messed up the world can be constantly, if you really stop and think about it. It has such a freaking bittersweet ending, cause, well, she's murdered, I think Nina... killed herself? That's at least implied, basically every single man there is a sexual predator or something similar, but, it manages to also leave a little bit of hope at the end of the tunnel, cause, they are almost certainly all arrested at the end, which is great, and through the Molina's character, that doesn't really have that much screen time, the message is like "ok, you will probably never be able to repair the mess you made, but that doesn't mean you can't regret it, pay for what you've done, and start been a better person moving forward". Which is honestly all we can hold on to, while thinking about the things this movie makes us think, we can do our part, impact people positively so they do their part, and hope that, even the jerks out there, at some point become a better person, hopefully at a point when it isn't too late.
So, yeah, the movie talks about some really screwed up stuff, but it manages to keep you on the hedge of your sit the entire time, even tho I sort of figured some of the story points earlier (like Ryan been involved in the rape), I was blown away but other stuff that I couldn't ever see it coming, like her actually dying at the end, and you go "wow, well, that's dark af, and I guess the message will truly be 'the world sucks, and there is no hope'", but then... boom again! The lawyer redeems himself, and Cassandra, in a dark, and truly awful away (cause, well... she was murdered) get's the last laugh, and her friend finally gets the justice she deserved. And, even tho the world still sucks, there are half of dozen less jerks out there (plus the other dozens of jerks she hopefully made rethink their actions during the movie).
Also, I almost forgot, the soundtrack is amazing! The instrumental classic version of Toxic... man, when that plays, I was, like, ok, that's creepy af, but captures so well the movie's vibe.
I get the criticisms I saw some had with the ending, and... well, sure, you clearly need to have a suspension of disbelief, if you will, that her text messages would arrive, at the same time the cops would, and in such a dramatic way lol, but I mean, is such a small detail, and, the fact that I respected everything the movie had done up to that point, and the message It was making, I'm fine with it, and it doesn't bother me at all, in order to change the score or anything.
So, to sum up, I loved this movie, I love the atmosphere of it, I loved the performances, the directing, the script, and of course, the message here is truly powerful, important and a hell of a sensitive issue we must talk about it constantly. It's insane that this is Emerald Fennell first feature film, this is incredible.
Ok, I will try to call down a bit. Let's start this.
First, just the atmosphere of the movie is incredible, the use of color most of the time, makes you feel like they are jumping out of the screen, and you just get transport into the world from the jump. Great cinematography, as really most of this year's Oscars nominated are, but with its own and unique style that I loved.
The acting is phenomenal, Carey Mulligan... man, I mean, she's fantastic. You feel the weight of Nina's story from the first times she is mentioned in a conversation, just through Carey's performance here, you are, as the jerks in the bar, easily fooled into thinking she's really drunk in the first scene of the movie, all throughout you get at the same time empathic for her, but you are also scared to death lol. Such a well written character, with so many layers to it. Amazing.
And honestly, pretty much everyone here is great, Alison Brie is awesome as always, Alfred Molina, and even McLovin himself, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, is here, been awesome. Great cast.
Bo Burnham tho is also amazing, and his character in a weird way, sort of is a mix of most of the things about this movie that got into my core the most (in a good way). Cause, for the most part of the movie, you really like him, he's a great dude, you are happy they are happy, and, well, I will have to say pretty early on I was like "yep, he's gonna be involved in the raped in some way", but man, it's just heartbreaking when you see the finale plays out the way it does, that, with Cassandra been killed is just like "holy moly, we do really live in this world, right?". And it's a gut punch, but I know that was the point of the whole story, and well, they couldn't have done it better.
At the end of the day, the movie's story is powerful, it manages to throw a light in... well, how messed up the world can be constantly, if you really stop and think about it. It has such a freaking bittersweet ending, cause, well, she's murdered, I think Nina... killed herself? That's at least implied, basically every single man there is a sexual predator or something similar, but, it manages to also leave a little bit of hope at the end of the tunnel, cause, they are almost certainly all arrested at the end, which is great, and through the Molina's character, that doesn't really have that much screen time, the message is like "ok, you will probably never be able to repair the mess you made, but that doesn't mean you can't regret it, pay for what you've done, and start been a better person moving forward". Which is honestly all we can hold on to, while thinking about the things this movie makes us think, we can do our part, impact people positively so they do their part, and hope that, even the jerks out there, at some point become a better person, hopefully at a point when it isn't too late.
So, yeah, the movie talks about some really screwed up stuff, but it manages to keep you on the hedge of your sit the entire time, even tho I sort of figured some of the story points earlier (like Ryan been involved in the rape), I was blown away but other stuff that I couldn't ever see it coming, like her actually dying at the end, and you go "wow, well, that's dark af, and I guess the message will truly be 'the world sucks, and there is no hope'", but then... boom again! The lawyer redeems himself, and Cassandra, in a dark, and truly awful away (cause, well... she was murdered) get's the last laugh, and her friend finally gets the justice she deserved. And, even tho the world still sucks, there are half of dozen less jerks out there (plus the other dozens of jerks she hopefully made rethink their actions during the movie).
Also, I almost forgot, the soundtrack is amazing! The instrumental classic version of Toxic... man, when that plays, I was, like, ok, that's creepy af, but captures so well the movie's vibe.
I get the criticisms I saw some had with the ending, and... well, sure, you clearly need to have a suspension of disbelief, if you will, that her text messages would arrive, at the same time the cops would, and in such a dramatic way lol, but I mean, is such a small detail, and, the fact that I respected everything the movie had done up to that point, and the message It was making, I'm fine with it, and it doesn't bother me at all, in order to change the score or anything.
So, to sum up, I loved this movie, I love the atmosphere of it, I loved the performances, the directing, the script, and of course, the message here is truly powerful, important and a hell of a sensitive issue we must talk about it constantly. It's insane that this is Emerald Fennell first feature film, this is incredible.