Starts off like any other coming of age movie then gets pretty gore real quick. It's basically a travel blog movie with narration. Even for a cannibalist movie all the characters seem to act unnaturally, maybe that's just how they were meant to be acted out since these aren't your normal folk. It's a movie that you might want to know what it's about heading in. I didn't really, but I'm luckily not the faint of heart but I can see people coming out saying it's disgusting or vile just like Flesh which was an earlier(and better imo) addition in the genre from this year.
Even for what the movie was about it was unnecessarily bloody, which made it seem over the top so that didn't really feel real to me, less believable graphic and gruel. For a while I thought it'd end up as something like a crossover between American honey and ladybird; in a way it is although it never gets as good as either of those. It's less horror, more like a road trip love story, has an interesting premise but it doesn't make the most of it. It's just floating in the middle, could've been more romantic, more unsettling, or more peculiar, lacks all around passion.
It feels a little like a dystopian future, because it mostly follows eaters only and they all have unique colorful personalities or appearances so this is how the world's perceived; yet it's all in the 80's America.
The romance side of it made sense, but the chemistry didn't feel believable. Similar to CMBYN which people did love though. The movie lacks any depth and the characters feel paper thin. It made sense for the lead characters to end up together but I didn't care much for them, so when the emotional scenes come it felt empty. It is visually appealing with beautiful camerawork of the scenery, quite some focus was to the red hair as the color stuck out from everything else. So I've watched two of Luca Guadagnino works now and I don't know if his trademark is beautifully made but hallow movies. You could deduce something meaningful behind it all but I think it'd be reaching. The actors did as well as you'd expect with what they're given. Most of them having worked with Luca before.
Cannibalism aside, I see a lot of similarities to call me by your name, I think this movie had a lot more to offer, I expected more but just like CMBYN, maybe I just don't get it and people will find beauty and meaning in this and I am just the one who doesn't get it.
UPDATE: Yup, just what I expected is happening. People talking about how beautifully shot this is, every scene worth bearing resemblance to a painting. And it's all true, it is visually appealing but it just feels hallow and lacking intimacy as I don't feel the connection between characters. I guess it's my life's tragedy that I'll never understand the hype around Luca Guadagnino's works. I enviously read the reviews praising CMBYN and Bones and all, wishing I could see what they see.
Even for what the movie was about it was unnecessarily bloody, which made it seem over the top so that didn't really feel real to me, less believable graphic and gruel. For a while I thought it'd end up as something like a crossover between American honey and ladybird; in a way it is although it never gets as good as either of those. It's less horror, more like a road trip love story, has an interesting premise but it doesn't make the most of it. It's just floating in the middle, could've been more romantic, more unsettling, or more peculiar, lacks all around passion.
It feels a little like a dystopian future, because it mostly follows eaters only and they all have unique colorful personalities or appearances so this is how the world's perceived; yet it's all in the 80's America.
The romance side of it made sense, but the chemistry didn't feel believable. Similar to CMBYN which people did love though. The movie lacks any depth and the characters feel paper thin. It made sense for the lead characters to end up together but I didn't care much for them, so when the emotional scenes come it felt empty. It is visually appealing with beautiful camerawork of the scenery, quite some focus was to the red hair as the color stuck out from everything else. So I've watched two of Luca Guadagnino works now and I don't know if his trademark is beautifully made but hallow movies. You could deduce something meaningful behind it all but I think it'd be reaching. The actors did as well as you'd expect with what they're given. Most of them having worked with Luca before.
Cannibalism aside, I see a lot of similarities to call me by your name, I think this movie had a lot more to offer, I expected more but just like CMBYN, maybe I just don't get it and people will find beauty and meaning in this and I am just the one who doesn't get it.
UPDATE: Yup, just what I expected is happening. People talking about how beautifully shot this is, every scene worth bearing resemblance to a painting. And it's all true, it is visually appealing but it just feels hallow and lacking intimacy as I don't feel the connection between characters. I guess it's my life's tragedy that I'll never understand the hype around Luca Guadagnino's works. I enviously read the reviews praising CMBYN and Bones and all, wishing I could see what they see.