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Miss Meadows (2014)
1 good idea but nothing else going for it
Simply put, not worth your time. I've seen my fair sure of movies exploring the effects of trauma. With this movie Saint Maud comes to mind. But talking about trauma in a comedy undermines everything. It commits to neither that or thriller, and does both terribly. They try to play her off as "weird but charming" when she's very obviously just completely off from the go so the romance comes off as horribly forced. I won't get into just the cinematography because there's really nothing good to say. I could think of 100 ways to have done this film justice, a story of someone going insane in such a bleak world so much so they do a 180 to detached happiness and positivity sounds fun but not this.
Golden Delicious (2022)
Generic coming out story
Golden Delicious is a adequate come out story about being in high school and dealing with all the confusion. And that's kind of it. There are about 100 stories that explore the exact same things in the exact same way. It might be received better by a current teenagers, if they can get past the poorly done dialog, but young adults to adults are just going to find it incredibly bland. It's just a basic story that's been told before. Only unique perspective it shows is complications that social media creates when it comes to keeping secrets. It also could have benefited by integrating the side story with the restaurant to reflect or match the protagonist issues. Because it just seems like a waste of time dealing with the family. It's drama for dramas sake which is the worst way to do it.
Men (2022)
Mixed feelings about the message
Watching it I saw it as a movie about trauma, could compare it to Saint Maud, where we're experiencing her delusions, due to her trauma she views all men as the same, dangerous, in the words and actions she sees aggression, she's an unreliable narrator due to her trauma. But the movie is both too literal on some things, too vague on others. Making it so everyone gets the same surface opinion that it's simply a "boo men bad" movie. I choose to believe my interpretation, however the movie could've done more to not lean so heavily into 1 way of viewing it. Makes it hard to enjoy when you need to provide a thesis on why it's not single minded mess.