8/28/2023 0 Comments Deer oops meme![]() ![]() The last time something so goddamn monstrous had me giggling was probably thanks to Michele Haneke, another cinematic reaper whose work resonates with Lanthimos’. The final resolution to this question is played out in a scene so memorably weird and hellish that it comes off as comedy Steve twirling blindfolded in the family room with a hunting rifle in hand, firing off rounds at his bound and gagged family, playing a grotesque game of spin the bottle to decide at random which of his dears to murder. And here we land on the rather silly title pun, a gag so tired in service to something so ominous but after all, children are sacred, and Martin is hunting them. Because these are archetypes more than people, who therefore don’t feel things as people should, when faced with something as unanswerable as which of their own children should live or die (this, ultimately, is Martin’s game), they set about collecting fucking evidence to help choose Who is better in school? Who has the greatest potential? Who does best with music lessons? It’s a sort of Lifeboat scenario but all the more horrific given how familiar, how intimate the choices are. Stressing the family as Martin does brings forth unspeakable abuse, and reveals histories that no child should have to hear from a parent, at least not at such a vulnerable age as young Bob’s.įarrell and Kidman are also cold warnings about the uselessness of the scientific method in context of emotional lives. More on that in a minute.) In a film loaded with horrific moments, I was most terrified by an admission of an incident from his own pubescence, a wildly nasty sexual encounter with his own father, told in a moment of unchecked, violent mastery over his own son. (A man retapping ugliness that alcohol had once let flow freely one of the film’s many direct corollaries to Kubrick’s famous drunken psychopath. Steven begins to reveal history and temper that he’d worked hard to bury. ![]() Martin’s power summons terrible things from the Murphys’ depths. Kim (Raffey Cassidy) falls for Martin (Barry Keoghan) Even names are out of time children of contemporary wealthy sophisticates called Kim and Bob? These are names that, while still common, are anachronistic among young millennials. These people aren’t meant to think for themselves. The film is dense with pre-programmed, vaguely incorrect language. The children are tasked with absurd, templated lines as well a teenage girl in 2017 repeatedly asking after the whereabouts of her various MP3 players? This is a line a distant adult might give to a teenager in 2005. She excels at caustic delivery of weirdly considered language–most notably in Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick must figure heavily into any response to this film) where her pace was famously sluggish and unemphatic. Kidman has played many variations on Stepford residents she and Farrell both delivered variations on this in Sofia Coppola’s very fine remake of The Beguiled. ![]() ” They don’t raise their voices, not at first, not while they are meant to fulfill the archetypes that Lanthimos and co-writer Efthymis Filippou want to portray. ![]()
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