OK. I saw I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE (The original!) in the theater back in the 70s! At least that movie didnt claim art as its lead. It specifically warned its audience in the promos and the media. "Woman gets revenge on her rapist , cuts off his dick!" and it sold itself on that/ Nobody pumped it up as art, opr a triumph of woman against her rapist, nobody sold it as anything but what it was. A horror revenge film...and youll get to see a rapist get his dick cut off! (2 decades before Lorena Bobbit!)
People didnt flock to the theater to see it, but they knew what they were getting. (It was part of a triple feature BTW).
This is just...a mess. Ever since Tarrantino made it fashionable to show movies in out of order chapter parts, many films have done it badly (Even he hasnt always done it well). This film has terrible character development, worse editing and screenplay, and it really isnt artful, or empowering. You dont root for the woman or against the man. You dont want him to learn, or repent, or be freed. You dont respect her journey, or cheer at her achieving vengeance. Its just, her devolving into a monster 1 step removed from Jason Voorhees (Another assault victim who then became a lunatic monster for 12 films). Its only disturbing insomuch as its so angry, coupled with effortful nudity to try and make it moire horrifying. But its not beautiful or powerful or tense. It doesnt lead us through emotional buildup to any revelation. Its I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE, but without the payoff.
Id rather see the next friday the 13th/ At least then I get what I went to the theater for. This is just...boring, disjointed, badly edited female revenge violence.
NOW, if you wanna see a good movie about female revenge, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN is exceptional without this films many MANY bad mistakes and overlong runtime (or at least, overlong draggy scenes between its few high points making the film seem overlong).
People didnt flock to the theater to see it, but they knew what they were getting. (It was part of a triple feature BTW).
This is just...a mess. Ever since Tarrantino made it fashionable to show movies in out of order chapter parts, many films have done it badly (Even he hasnt always done it well). This film has terrible character development, worse editing and screenplay, and it really isnt artful, or empowering. You dont root for the woman or against the man. You dont want him to learn, or repent, or be freed. You dont respect her journey, or cheer at her achieving vengeance. Its just, her devolving into a monster 1 step removed from Jason Voorhees (Another assault victim who then became a lunatic monster for 12 films). Its only disturbing insomuch as its so angry, coupled with effortful nudity to try and make it moire horrifying. But its not beautiful or powerful or tense. It doesnt lead us through emotional buildup to any revelation. Its I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE, but without the payoff.
Id rather see the next friday the 13th/ At least then I get what I went to the theater for. This is just...boring, disjointed, badly edited female revenge violence.
NOW, if you wanna see a good movie about female revenge, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN is exceptional without this films many MANY bad mistakes and overlong runtime (or at least, overlong draggy scenes between its few high points making the film seem overlong).