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Saw the movie today the way it was meant to be seen- alone, in a a completely empty threater
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It's supposed to be weird that everybody who meets Elle Fanning is so enraptured with her, right? I know beauty is subjective, but it's hard for me to look at her, and look at everyone else in the movie and think "this girl is objectively next-level, otherworldly beautiful". I don't think I'm meant to. So what is it that they see in her? Is she really just fresh meat?
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Jun 26, 2016 03:02
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Anal Surgery posted:I took it to be that people obsessed over her youth rather than her beauty. So much of the film revolves around fear of aging and mortality that I thought it was Elle's babyish face that was hooking people Yeah, the youth was kind of what I meant by "fresh meat". It's really the only thing that separates her from the rest. Despite what her printer-toting friend tells her, she is pretty much a personality void.
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Jun 26, 2016 03:10
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Josh Lyman posted:But then what makes her different from any other 16-year-old model? It's possible that she's not, and that this isn't anybody's first rodeo.
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Jun 26, 2016 05:37
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Josh Lyman posted:My only complaint coming out of the film was a disconnect between movie time and real time. Jesse definitely seemed like an ingenue at the beginning, but her transformation, specifically in that scene where she shruggs off her "boyfriend" at the restaurant, seemed to happen too quickly from the viewer's perspective, like there needed to be 15 minutes of scenes in between. I don't think she'd have aimed to get into modeling to begin with if she didn't already have a certain level of narcissism. But yeah, the part where she encounters the titular Neon Demon is definitely her "falling to the dark side" moment.
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Jun 27, 2016 04:57
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Sir Kodiak posted:"Genuinely loved" seems a bit strong for someone she murders in cold blood. Yeah, I wondered for a while if she always intended to kill and eat Jessie, or only decided to do it after her advances were rejected. Ultimately I decided it was beside the point, she always intended to consume her, whether it was to be figuratively or literally was almost an afterthought. It didn't matter if she was sex or food, in this movie's universe they're the same thing.
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Jun 27, 2016 18:53
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Josh Lyman posted:My only complaint coming out of the film was a disconnect between movie time and real time. Jesse definitely seemed like an ingenue at the beginning, but her transformation, specifically in that scene where she shruggs off her "boyfriend" at the restaurant, seemed to happen too quickly from the viewer's perspective, like there needed to be 15 minutes of scenes in between. I think she only ever valued him for the attention he gave her. The second she found a much more potent, gratifying form of attention, he was disposable. His praise, his eyes, his camera, they were amateur hour. She's in the big leagues now.
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Jun 27, 2016 19:39
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MinibarMatchman posted:Am I the only one who took the mentions of her parents being non-entities and Jessie talking about how her mother said she was dangerous as a potential build-up to Jessie being some sinister person the whole time, and maybe revealing she killed her own parents? Maybe it was only because of how quickly she made the turn to The Demon side and how she had those weird precognitions but I thought right up til the climax that we'd have a reveal that there was something not quite right about her, even beforehand. I was expecting a murdered her famil twist as well. I think in the end the point of her parents being dead just made her seem more vunerable, and that made her that much more appealing to the creeps surrounding her. As far as the ending, I don't think it's fair to expect Jessie to anticipate being murdered and eaten no matter how much of an rear end in a top hat she is.
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Jun 27, 2016 21:24
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THORIUM posted:Still not sure why everyone is so sold on witchcraft having to do with anything here? Did they light a bunch of candles and make a ritualistic sacrifice? No. They just ate the girl. Jenna Malone gets naked and worships the moon and then releases an improbable torrent of blood from her vagina. Also she has a bunch of weird tats. They're on some weird poo poo. There's always a spiritual element to cannibalism. Who's ever heard of an atheist cannibal? General Dog fucked around with this message at 17:39 on Jun 28, 2016 |
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Jun 28, 2016 17:36
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Vegetable posted:The screenplay for this movie is so loving bad. Some of the lines, my god. *in Maude Lebowski voice* The story is ludicrous
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Jun 29, 2016 14:06
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Josh Lyman posted:Is it so strange to collect movies of someone you like? I mean, it's a little different than liking a director but not so crazy. No, but it's strange to give them their own section in your DVD collection. If I visited anybody's house and saw that, I'd assume they were another John Hinkley waiting to happen. If you're obsessed with an actress, okay, but don't hang a lantern on it.
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Jul 5, 2016 14:29
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eats-almonds posted:when I saw Inherent Vice I thought Joaquin Phoenix was Leonard from Big Bang Theory. Very embarrassing. She left the door open
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Jul 6, 2016 15:27
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Is Ruby fantasizing about Jesse while she fucks a corpse, or is Jesse fantasizing about Ruby loving a corpse? I think either is possible, or maybe both.
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Sep 21, 2016 21:25
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