There are movies out there where after watching you read their praises and wondered if their cinema started in 2023. This is the public for you.
Does anyone remember "Bound"? A better lesbian noir that was so razor sharp it made you literally sit at the edge of your seat. There's odd tonal shifts too. I feel it's suppose to be a dark comedy. Maybe. In some places. God, who knows?!
This movie was a mess. A cheap knockoff mess at that. A female bodybuilder hustler slips into town and gets the eye of a gym manager. They have an affair. After justifiably killing an important man they are tossed into damage control when one of the girl's father, a town gunrunning criminal, gets involved.
Sounds juicy.
However, director, Rose Glass seems to want to shoehorn this love story between these two. The problem is that their "love" is based on debaucherous lifestyle. You see how it would paint their relationship as failing? Also, I found nothing empathetic about either of the two. Kristen Stewart's Father, played by Ed Harris, is a bad guy. But the backstory is so muddled, and unfocused it's hard to determine if Kristen is the villain or he is. Yes, he looks every bit like the bad guy. And acts as such. But he still seems to be missing scenes where he is the the bad dude. I guess having one of your daughters marry a jerk (James Franco) and not killing him makes him so. Too weak.
So frustrating to see all the great pieces there but fall apart. It seems to want to have a message of sacrifice and love and all that. None of it hits home. And sometimes it falls into raw reality. Then it shifts into bizarre surrealism. I guarantee at Glass's Q&A people were wondering about the steroid Gigantess scene. Ooooof. So so messy.
Any way, I wasn't the slightest bit moved by their relationship. Nor convinced any love exists between them.
Sad sad weak movie. Look at "Bound" to see what real cinema looks like.
Does anyone remember "Bound"? A better lesbian noir that was so razor sharp it made you literally sit at the edge of your seat. There's odd tonal shifts too. I feel it's suppose to be a dark comedy. Maybe. In some places. God, who knows?!
This movie was a mess. A cheap knockoff mess at that. A female bodybuilder hustler slips into town and gets the eye of a gym manager. They have an affair. After justifiably killing an important man they are tossed into damage control when one of the girl's father, a town gunrunning criminal, gets involved.
Sounds juicy.
However, director, Rose Glass seems to want to shoehorn this love story between these two. The problem is that their "love" is based on debaucherous lifestyle. You see how it would paint their relationship as failing? Also, I found nothing empathetic about either of the two. Kristen Stewart's Father, played by Ed Harris, is a bad guy. But the backstory is so muddled, and unfocused it's hard to determine if Kristen is the villain or he is. Yes, he looks every bit like the bad guy. And acts as such. But he still seems to be missing scenes where he is the the bad dude. I guess having one of your daughters marry a jerk (James Franco) and not killing him makes him so. Too weak.
So frustrating to see all the great pieces there but fall apart. It seems to want to have a message of sacrifice and love and all that. None of it hits home. And sometimes it falls into raw reality. Then it shifts into bizarre surrealism. I guarantee at Glass's Q&A people were wondering about the steroid Gigantess scene. Ooooof. So so messy.
Any way, I wasn't the slightest bit moved by their relationship. Nor convinced any love exists between them.
Sad sad weak movie. Look at "Bound" to see what real cinema looks like.