I'm no doctor, nor a woman but I can imagine Pregnancy is stressful. Not as stressful as Alice Lowe's Ruth in her 2016 horror comedy Prevenge. She's got a bun in the oven and it might just turn out to be sourdough. So the reel question is... that joke was bad enough, let's just get to the review.
I truly believe that comedy is cultural. Some jokes are universal (slapstick for example) but some are region-specific. This is how I feel towards Prevenge. It is a movie made for England. The entire thing hangs together like a surrealist painting of what pregnancy feels like. Never letting you feel relaxed in its company, and never giving you the full picture. Only glimpses of what could be the correct outcome.
For this I admire it. Bold films are hard to find and Prevenge (irrelevant of its actual quality) is a bold film. To make a woman appear to be possessed by her unborn child forcing her into a homicidal spree is quite the task, to attempt to make that outline a comedy is even more complicated. However, for the most part, Prevenge succeeds.
It's inarguable that Prevenge is a film you have to buy into. You have to allow yourself to be submerged into this logical insanity that Ruth (our protagonist) inhabits, but if you do then it will hand you something back. Something deep and prying, something unexpectedly nasty but ultimately rewarding.
I can understand that if you don't want to enjoy Prevenge then you won't. The film will become impenetrable. The lead will be annoying and the storyline intolerable. I don't know if I can recommend Prevenge with a clean conscious. I found the feature to be unsettling, disturbing, and most importantly of quite brilliant. This is a film that wants to reach deep inside us and draw out our feelings. It doesn't long to be funny, it wants to be disturbing. Prevenge is proof that it's easy to be gory and nasty; it's complicated to be distressing.
The film is carried by Alice Lowe, who writes, directs, and stars in her creation. This is her vision. Form her previous work I knew that Alice has a dull stillness about her, this is capitalized to maximum effect in Prevenge, she can portray sorrow and comedy in the one expression and that makes her unique. This is made all the more impressive when it is revealed that she was pregnant during the shooting of the film. There is nothing flashy or impressive about the directing or style of the film aside from it matches the bizarre dreamlike storyline.
If you want a film that has brains in its head but is also mad as a bag of frogs you will be hard pushed to not put Prevenge at the top of that list. Think Babadook with a laughter track.
7 evil babies out of 10
I truly believe that comedy is cultural. Some jokes are universal (slapstick for example) but some are region-specific. This is how I feel towards Prevenge. It is a movie made for England. The entire thing hangs together like a surrealist painting of what pregnancy feels like. Never letting you feel relaxed in its company, and never giving you the full picture. Only glimpses of what could be the correct outcome.
For this I admire it. Bold films are hard to find and Prevenge (irrelevant of its actual quality) is a bold film. To make a woman appear to be possessed by her unborn child forcing her into a homicidal spree is quite the task, to attempt to make that outline a comedy is even more complicated. However, for the most part, Prevenge succeeds.
It's inarguable that Prevenge is a film you have to buy into. You have to allow yourself to be submerged into this logical insanity that Ruth (our protagonist) inhabits, but if you do then it will hand you something back. Something deep and prying, something unexpectedly nasty but ultimately rewarding.
I can understand that if you don't want to enjoy Prevenge then you won't. The film will become impenetrable. The lead will be annoying and the storyline intolerable. I don't know if I can recommend Prevenge with a clean conscious. I found the feature to be unsettling, disturbing, and most importantly of quite brilliant. This is a film that wants to reach deep inside us and draw out our feelings. It doesn't long to be funny, it wants to be disturbing. Prevenge is proof that it's easy to be gory and nasty; it's complicated to be distressing.
The film is carried by Alice Lowe, who writes, directs, and stars in her creation. This is her vision. Form her previous work I knew that Alice has a dull stillness about her, this is capitalized to maximum effect in Prevenge, she can portray sorrow and comedy in the one expression and that makes her unique. This is made all the more impressive when it is revealed that she was pregnant during the shooting of the film. There is nothing flashy or impressive about the directing or style of the film aside from it matches the bizarre dreamlike storyline.
If you want a film that has brains in its head but is also mad as a bag of frogs you will be hard pushed to not put Prevenge at the top of that list. Think Babadook with a laughter track.
7 evil babies out of 10