unfortunately movie review
Nov. 25th, 2021 12:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maritimookay so i watched last night in soho tonight and it was absolutely horrendous lol. so here's is my rant about it (spoilers alert i go throught everything that happens)
okay so this is the plot of the film: ellie, an awkward girl who doesn't know how to socialize and also sees ghosts, moves to london for fashion school! her mom also saw ghosts and then killed herself, so it's like a personal accomplishment thing that she's able to go (and not end up killing herself). she gets bullied and ridiculed by the popular girls at the dorms (because women are evil btw) so she immediately moves out and rents a room from an old lady.
after moving in she starts time traveling to the past in her dreams and lives the life of sandy (anya taylor-joy) who is a wannabe singer in the 60s. she's enamoured by sandy and changes her hair to look like hers, designs and buys clothes that she wore etc. but! sandy is forced into prostitution by a man who groomed her and ellie is forced to live her traumas. THEN they start bleeding into her real life, she starts seeing sandy's abusers everywhere, both as faceless men and her pimp. btw she still gets mistreated for being ~weird by the girls but one boy likes her and treats her nicely!!
ellie avoids sleeping at home (the same room sandy used to live in) so she accepts the invitation to go to a halloween party with nice boy. guess who is there! the girls who hate her for no reason. what will they do? drug her drink! she starts hallucinating like crazy (by this point everyone is already starting to notice she's losing her grip on reality). so she asks to go home and nice boy goes with her. when they get there and are making out she starts seeing herself as sandy get killed by her pimp, stabbed a lot of times etc she screams and talks to the ceiling and nice boy gets kicked out by the landlord.
she tries going to the police but obviously they think she's batshit crazy (the girl cop is nice though). she doesn't have sandy's last name so before she goes completely insane ellie decides she needs to go through old newspapers to find as much info on her as possible (nice boy helps her). then she starts hallucinating men who are trying to help her and then almost stabs the popular girl.
ellie is truly out of it and terrified by this point in the story. she goes to confront this old man who hangs out at the bar she works at because she is certain that he used to sandy's pimp, and subsequently her killer. they fight verbally and he obviously knew her and cusses sandy out but says he didnt kill her, and that sandy brought it on herself. she catches up to him on the street after he leaves and then he gets hit by a car and dies LMFAO. it turns out he was not the pimp! he was a cop that used to work in prostitution investigations (we saw him being nice to sandy once).
ellie is super traumatized obviously so she says she has to leave london that same night to stop seeing all of this shit, her grandma can't come pick her up so nice boy offers to drive her to the countryside. they stop by the little apartment she lives in to grab all of her stuff and she's like if i dont come back soon please check up on me. she stops to talk to the landgrandma who is like sit down let me make you some tea so you can calm down and talk etc etc.
ellie is like i'm sorry but i have to leave i can't be here anymore, and the grandma is like a police officer stopped by to ask about your wellbeing etc etc also remember how you asked me if someone died in your room.. i guess that's true... a part of me died there. boom revelation old lady is sandy. sandy brags about killing her pimp and then turning into a heartless serial killer who targeted all the men who raped her and that she buried them in this same house. ALSO?? i put arsenic in your tea:) bc i'm a psychopath.
nice boy comes checkup on her, so old lady stabs him, ellie is sick and dying and throws old lady down the stairs.during their fight a cig falls to the floor and the house catches on fire btw. when she gets to her bedroom (where there's a phone to call for help) she starts seeing the faceless men coming out of the walls and trying to grab her. AND THEN!!!! this ghost picks up the phone for her and says help me. sandy gets there and they argue and fight and sandy kills herself so the cops don't get her, ellie hugs her.
the firemen get ellie and her boyfriend out and we see anya taylor-joy sitting in bed with the whole room on fire ala yoongi in i need u mv. the movie ends with ellie doing her first university fashion show (it goes well). she hugs her grandma and her boyfriend, sees her mom through the mirror and then for the last time... sees sandy. and that's the last shot.
well. i don't think i need to explain why this movie hates women!!!!! but godddd i seriously am so mad. it seriously had so much potential to be good, i dont even care that sandy is the killer or whatever, but i wanted that to be shown through empathetic lenses, because ellie lived through all of her trauma, she knows how much sandy suffered. they could've cried and hugged it out, sandy finally had found someone who got her and cared for her, ellie was trying to do her justice!!! but no lolol. she has to become the villain.
it's genuinely so vile, to make the viewer also live through this woman's sexual abuse, just to show that in the end it made her evil!!! no real catharsis, nothing. i didn't find that the movie made it clear enough that she was driven to kill these men because of the circumstances she was in, it really did become some revenge killing porn or whatever. sandy shows no strong emotions or vulnerability when she tells ellie about what happened to her pimp and those men. ellie is too traumatized to say or do something. idk. its so horrible and ruins the point of the whole movie. im genuinely soooo sad idk why men hate women so much. i dont care that sandy died in the end or anything like that but... to make her the villain. i hope edger wright gets hit by a car.
the worst part is that the basic idea for the movie is so good, and i did think that it really made you feel the horrors of rape and assault, you feel as helpless as ellie and sandy in a well made way!! the directing and editing is beautiful, all the visual effects of seeing sandy and ellie through mirrors no matter the situation... all amazing. im so sad and mad about this ending ughhhhhhhhh. i need to kill people asap. completely ruined sandy's character and the POINT OF THE MOVIEEEEEE for no fucking reasonnnnn other than to have a plot twist on top of a twist on top of a twist. okay im done now EDGAR WRIGHT ROT IN HELL.
okay so this is the plot of the film: ellie, an awkward girl who doesn't know how to socialize and also sees ghosts, moves to london for fashion school! her mom also saw ghosts and then killed herself, so it's like a personal accomplishment thing that she's able to go (and not end up killing herself). she gets bullied and ridiculed by the popular girls at the dorms (because women are evil btw) so she immediately moves out and rents a room from an old lady.
after moving in she starts time traveling to the past in her dreams and lives the life of sandy (anya taylor-joy) who is a wannabe singer in the 60s. she's enamoured by sandy and changes her hair to look like hers, designs and buys clothes that she wore etc. but! sandy is forced into prostitution by a man who groomed her and ellie is forced to live her traumas. THEN they start bleeding into her real life, she starts seeing sandy's abusers everywhere, both as faceless men and her pimp. btw she still gets mistreated for being ~weird by the girls but one boy likes her and treats her nicely!!
ellie avoids sleeping at home (the same room sandy used to live in) so she accepts the invitation to go to a halloween party with nice boy. guess who is there! the girls who hate her for no reason. what will they do? drug her drink! she starts hallucinating like crazy (by this point everyone is already starting to notice she's losing her grip on reality). so she asks to go home and nice boy goes with her. when they get there and are making out she starts seeing herself as sandy get killed by her pimp, stabbed a lot of times etc she screams and talks to the ceiling and nice boy gets kicked out by the landlord.
she tries going to the police but obviously they think she's batshit crazy (the girl cop is nice though). she doesn't have sandy's last name so before she goes completely insane ellie decides she needs to go through old newspapers to find as much info on her as possible (nice boy helps her). then she starts hallucinating men who are trying to help her and then almost stabs the popular girl.
ellie is truly out of it and terrified by this point in the story. she goes to confront this old man who hangs out at the bar she works at because she is certain that he used to sandy's pimp, and subsequently her killer. they fight verbally and he obviously knew her and cusses sandy out but says he didnt kill her, and that sandy brought it on herself. she catches up to him on the street after he leaves and then he gets hit by a car and dies LMFAO. it turns out he was not the pimp! he was a cop that used to work in prostitution investigations (we saw him being nice to sandy once).
ellie is super traumatized obviously so she says she has to leave london that same night to stop seeing all of this shit, her grandma can't come pick her up so nice boy offers to drive her to the countryside. they stop by the little apartment she lives in to grab all of her stuff and she's like if i dont come back soon please check up on me. she stops to talk to the landgrandma who is like sit down let me make you some tea so you can calm down and talk etc etc.
ellie is like i'm sorry but i have to leave i can't be here anymore, and the grandma is like a police officer stopped by to ask about your wellbeing etc etc also remember how you asked me if someone died in your room.. i guess that's true... a part of me died there. boom revelation old lady is sandy. sandy brags about killing her pimp and then turning into a heartless serial killer who targeted all the men who raped her and that she buried them in this same house. ALSO?? i put arsenic in your tea:) bc i'm a psychopath.
nice boy comes checkup on her, so old lady stabs him, ellie is sick and dying and throws old lady down the stairs.during their fight a cig falls to the floor and the house catches on fire btw. when she gets to her bedroom (where there's a phone to call for help) she starts seeing the faceless men coming out of the walls and trying to grab her. AND THEN!!!! this ghost picks up the phone for her and says help me. sandy gets there and they argue and fight and sandy kills herself so the cops don't get her, ellie hugs her.
the firemen get ellie and her boyfriend out and we see anya taylor-joy sitting in bed with the whole room on fire ala yoongi in i need u mv. the movie ends with ellie doing her first university fashion show (it goes well). she hugs her grandma and her boyfriend, sees her mom through the mirror and then for the last time... sees sandy. and that's the last shot.
well. i don't think i need to explain why this movie hates women!!!!! but godddd i seriously am so mad. it seriously had so much potential to be good, i dont even care that sandy is the killer or whatever, but i wanted that to be shown through empathetic lenses, because ellie lived through all of her trauma, she knows how much sandy suffered. they could've cried and hugged it out, sandy finally had found someone who got her and cared for her, ellie was trying to do her justice!!! but no lolol. she has to become the villain.
it's genuinely so vile, to make the viewer also live through this woman's sexual abuse, just to show that in the end it made her evil!!! no real catharsis, nothing. i didn't find that the movie made it clear enough that she was driven to kill these men because of the circumstances she was in, it really did become some revenge killing porn or whatever. sandy shows no strong emotions or vulnerability when she tells ellie about what happened to her pimp and those men. ellie is too traumatized to say or do something. idk. its so horrible and ruins the point of the whole movie. im genuinely soooo sad idk why men hate women so much. i dont care that sandy died in the end or anything like that but... to make her the villain. i hope edger wright gets hit by a car.
the worst part is that the basic idea for the movie is so good, and i did think that it really made you feel the horrors of rape and assault, you feel as helpless as ellie and sandy in a well made way!! the directing and editing is beautiful, all the visual effects of seeing sandy and ellie through mirrors no matter the situation... all amazing. im so sad and mad about this ending ughhhhhhhhh. i need to kill people asap. completely ruined sandy's character and the POINT OF THE MOVIEEEEEE for no fucking reasonnnnn other than to have a plot twist on top of a twist on top of a twist. okay im done now EDGAR WRIGHT ROT IN HELL.
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