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you guys just don’t get it. you’re phillistines, you’re not with the shits when it comes to culture and art. as a woman who hovers around 105 pounds i understand dasha’s body of work (as well as just her body). i’m woke and brilliant. i pirated this film on a website that made my laptop overheat for a week. real guerilla shit
Some nice moments but mostly it reminds me of the psychological thriller I wrote when I was 16 that was set at my high school and the principal was named Dr. Caligari
Deliberately provocative, yes, but mileages will vary as to whether it's a grungy, sly joke or a glib, smug one. Certainly its confrontations seem a bit prankish, like adolescent dares, and I'm not sure if it's actually productive in pulling on its threads of either unchecked powerful fiendish men or the conspiracy-obsessed. But it is frequently funny and its formal and narrative influences (some more obvious than others) aren't just references, they're purposeful. This isn't the work of a dilettante no matter how tempting it might be to call it one. Reminded me a lot of TINY FURNITURE.
Totally see why this isn't working for people but against my better judgement I found this genuinely and (I think?) intentionally pretty funny. Not sure it totally coheres its psychological disintegration via political conspiracy thing it's going for but it does feel strange, off-putting and completely in bad taste. Despite its existence feeling like a joke dare between friends it does contain a shocking image or two, and unlike so many others who tried to revive this era of filmmaking this year, it does effectively look and sound like one of the cheap, amateurish exploitation movies I'd find the 16mm reels of in a garbage bin.
This is not a film about what happened after Epstein, or a film that attempts to create a narrative to follow it, but a movie that uses the setting as an excuse to provide writing that pushes its own meta-narrative, that which is ostensibly about being rich in New York City and appropriating internet slang. This is a hard film to rate and critique. You think it’s hitting a stride and then you feel stupid for giving it a chance. The biggest and most heartbreaking insult I can offer is that it's “nothing special”. It hasn’t reinvented anything, not from overuse of kitsch, not from genuinely compelling narrative techniques, not from genuinely compelling directing techniques. Not from any lens I…
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