Director Emerald Ferrell creates some devistatingly brilliant visual imagery and pairs it with a great soundtrack. There are some terrific one-liners that would make great skit punch lines. But the narrative is everywhere and nowhere at the same time. The ending is so bizarrely brilliant and ultimately almost makes it all worth it but not quite.
This film tries to follow the perspective of someone who was traumatized from her friends rape and eventual suicide. It unfolds in a manner that you are not sure whether it is going back and forth in time and it's hard to stay with. As it turns out, the movie's trailer was a tease. She's not as lethal as it looks throughout - She vents her rage within more than getting any actual revenge . Until she does - but getting from Point A to Point B to Point C is more visceral than believable.
Many people thought Mulligan should have won best actress for this turn for the way she changes personas. I thought she 75% pulled it off but not quite completely. Certainly worth watching for your own perspective. To me, I was alternately entertained and frustrated - which may be just what Director Ferrell was going for.
Brilliant art? Perhaps so. Do I ever want to watch it again? No, not me.
This film tries to follow the perspective of someone who was traumatized from her friends rape and eventual suicide. It unfolds in a manner that you are not sure whether it is going back and forth in time and it's hard to stay with. As it turns out, the movie's trailer was a tease. She's not as lethal as it looks throughout - She vents her rage within more than getting any actual revenge . Until she does - but getting from Point A to Point B to Point C is more visceral than believable.
Many people thought Mulligan should have won best actress for this turn for the way she changes personas. I thought she 75% pulled it off but not quite completely. Certainly worth watching for your own perspective. To me, I was alternately entertained and frustrated - which may be just what Director Ferrell was going for.
Brilliant art? Perhaps so. Do I ever want to watch it again? No, not me.