I watched White Girl not knowing what the plot was and not expecting a whole lot since I started the movie by accident around 1:00am. Typical plot, Mid western girl moves to big city where recreational drug use and drinking escalates to heavy drug use/dealing, hard partying, and gets caught up in a situation she seemingly can't get out of.
The progressive spiral downward of Saylor's character was done fairly well. Blue's character could have been developed a bit better, and the dynamic between Kelly and Leah was just bizarre. I'd have like to know more on why Leah acted the way she did aside from being young just not giving a damn about what she was doing. I mean, within the first 20 minutes of the film, Leah is asking for weed from a stranger/dealer on the street, has her underwear to her ankles and gives her boss oral in his office her first day of work, has said dealer and his friends in her home a day after they met and has sex in an ally with the dealer the same night.
Seriously?
To me, Saylor's performance was outstanding as her character's struggles with decision making and drug use escalation was very believable. Noth's final scene with Saylor is difficult to watch, but could be predicted, you just sort of hope it wouldn't. For a young actress she did a nice job in scenes not easy to perform.
Overall a decent movie with some good individual performances held back by a script that didn't connect all of the dots and develop it's main characters completely. If viewers can stick it out to the end knowing something crazy will eventually happen it's worth a watch.
The progressive spiral downward of Saylor's character was done fairly well. Blue's character could have been developed a bit better, and the dynamic between Kelly and Leah was just bizarre. I'd have like to know more on why Leah acted the way she did aside from being young just not giving a damn about what she was doing. I mean, within the first 20 minutes of the film, Leah is asking for weed from a stranger/dealer on the street, has her underwear to her ankles and gives her boss oral in his office her first day of work, has said dealer and his friends in her home a day after they met and has sex in an ally with the dealer the same night.
Seriously?
To me, Saylor's performance was outstanding as her character's struggles with decision making and drug use escalation was very believable. Noth's final scene with Saylor is difficult to watch, but could be predicted, you just sort of hope it wouldn't. For a young actress she did a nice job in scenes not easy to perform.
Overall a decent movie with some good individual performances held back by a script that didn't connect all of the dots and develop it's main characters completely. If viewers can stick it out to the end knowing something crazy will eventually happen it's worth a watch.