I have to say that I was mesmerised by the first half hour of this movie. It gave off a"primer" feeling accompanied by some really interesting coloring choices , leveraging chromatic aberration as its principle theme.
The script was on point too - well at least it started as such, hinting at a self-reflection from someone who feels their life has amounted to nothing. Dark, deep and intriguing.
BUT at the 45 minute mark something very strange happened and the movie switch gears into the standard "coming of age" theme and lays on cliche after trope. I honestly have the feeling that this movie had good intentions but really required some extra funding from special interest groups that wanted to see a specific political message included here.
And sure enough, at the 1h mark you're watching something completely different. It's quite frankly the cardinal sin of movie making and totally breaks the immersion. I think this is when people should stand up and leave the theatre but for the sake of it I finished it and outside a half-hearted attempt at bringing back the mesmerising first half hour, this wasn't far with a terrible TV series from the PC police.
The industry needs to take a serious look at how movies are budgeted today, because the current scheme is simply not geared towards creating art (pi, primer, etc) but instead rehashing the same tired tropes to push a very specific very geographically located political agenda.
Go woke, don't go to space I guess.
The script was on point too - well at least it started as such, hinting at a self-reflection from someone who feels their life has amounted to nothing. Dark, deep and intriguing.
BUT at the 45 minute mark something very strange happened and the movie switch gears into the standard "coming of age" theme and lays on cliche after trope. I honestly have the feeling that this movie had good intentions but really required some extra funding from special interest groups that wanted to see a specific political message included here.
And sure enough, at the 1h mark you're watching something completely different. It's quite frankly the cardinal sin of movie making and totally breaks the immersion. I think this is when people should stand up and leave the theatre but for the sake of it I finished it and outside a half-hearted attempt at bringing back the mesmerising first half hour, this wasn't far with a terrible TV series from the PC police.
The industry needs to take a serious look at how movies are budgeted today, because the current scheme is simply not geared towards creating art (pi, primer, etc) but instead rehashing the same tired tropes to push a very specific very geographically located political agenda.
Go woke, don't go to space I guess.