Put me in the camp of finding this good but not great and that’s cool. I was walking out of the theater during the intermission on a cinema high, and then the second half makes some…choices. I’m still thinking about the film though and that says a lot. For only a ~10 million budget, this joint looked and sounded amazing. The lighting was phenomenal. For sure paying it another watch someday.
These comps are interesting, too. I hardly got PTA from this. It felt more like something from Malick and LvT, tbh. Guess I could see this sharing the ambitions of TWBB, but couldn’t quite piece those bright ideas all together in the end nearly as well.
The tone shift was fitting, and I liked it. Ripped that mask right off. Brady damn near hits the audience over the head for what was to come during the first half. Guy Pearce, who puts on a fine performance, plays a character who reeks of capitalism and opportunist from the very first moment he’s introduced.
I generally prefer seeing the fall more than the rise in these type of flicks, but this one had some unnecessary lulls in the back-half that I could see Corbet later in his career wishing he’d cut out.
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