A good movie

I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but, since I kept hearing some interesting things about it, I thought I might as well check it out. Wow… It turned out to be such a wild movie after all. Basically, it’s not a movie that you really watch, it’s a movie that you have to experience. To be honest, I’m not sure that everything did work for me, it was so complex, but there is no denying that Owen and Mady were such fascinating characters thanks to some really solid performances by Justice Smith and Jack Haven. What was so weird for me while watching this movie was that, even though the material and the mood were quite dark, there was actually something soothing about it. Indeed, to see two characters from the opposite sex actually not gravitating towards each other on a romantic or sexual level but, even further than that, to see them not feeling the urge to have such a connection with anybody at all, I thought it was actually liberating. Indeed, in all movies or the vast majority of them at least, they constantly hammer the idea that, to be whole, you have to find your better half but, when you feel alienated like these two characters and when you don’t fit in this world, it’s actually super refreshing to see that you don’t necessarily HAVE to find someone, you are already an individual all by yourself and you don’t need another person to define you. Obviously, it didn’t work like that for these characters as their feeling of disconnection with the rest of the world, even their feeling of disconnection with themselves, gave them so much distress. That’s the saddest thing about our world. Indeed, with our complex brain, the possibilities are like infinite and, yet, everything original or deviant is always mercilessly crushed. I think it also explained their deep connection with this seemingly cheesy 90’s TV-show. Indeed, we do have the ability to make the most random but also creative connections with our brains, this way, it allows us to actually escape our reality and reshape it to make it more attractive, more entertaining or simply bearable to us. However, once again, for the two characters, the way they experienced this TV-show gave them also so much anguish as it seemed that it became another dark prison for them. To be honest, I probably didn’t understand half of this movie but it still touched me though and it is definitely worth a look. 

7/10