This film was a failed, poorly executed, pretentious and amateur attempt at being different and avant-garde á la Kenneth Anger/David Lynch/John Waters/West Side Story with the elements of the queer culture and woke politics.
PROS:
CONS:
All of these cons as mentioned above just rob all the thrills, humor, fun, credibility, excitement, adventure, spirit and entertainment of it which makes it less interesting and memorable to watch. Overall, this film was very subpar and will be easily be forgotten as it will only appeal to a certain niche which will apparently become an obscure cult classic. It was all pretty image, but no true substance. Get woke, go broke!
Even Shiva Baby and But I'm a Cheerleader as LGBTQ+ cult classics, fared a lot better, had interesting storylines, had dramatic and convincing plots and overall, were perfectly executed than this film. Just my two cents, coming from a non-binary/gender-fluid person like myself.
PROS:
- The underrated-yet-top-notch and stellar performances of Andrea Riseborough, Karl Glusman, Cole Escola and Ryan Simpkins.
- The beautifully appealing and well-designed visuals/art direction and costumes/makeup.
- The haunting-yet-elegant original musical score.
CONS:
- The overhyped and unconvincingly awful performances of Harry Melling and Demi Moore due to miscasting.
- The painfully obvious and downright abysmal dialogue.
- The very tedious, redundant and chaotic nature of the entire plot, storyline and screenplay.
- The anachronistic and nonsensical elements of 1980's-style harshly bright neon lights and dramatic dry ice smoke in a 1950's setting.
- The film itself being reduced to an annoying and boring college lecture of a gender studies course with an even painfully obvious agenda of wokeism and degeneracy of far-leftist dogmas.
- The poor play of lighting and darkness throughout the entire film.
- The rather nonexistent and confusing message of the story.
All of these cons as mentioned above just rob all the thrills, humor, fun, credibility, excitement, adventure, spirit and entertainment of it which makes it less interesting and memorable to watch. Overall, this film was very subpar and will be easily be forgotten as it will only appeal to a certain niche which will apparently become an obscure cult classic. It was all pretty image, but no true substance. Get woke, go broke!
Even Shiva Baby and But I'm a Cheerleader as LGBTQ+ cult classics, fared a lot better, had interesting storylines, had dramatic and convincing plots and overall, were perfectly executed than this film. Just my two cents, coming from a non-binary/gender-fluid person like myself.