Wow! Such a good movie.

Simply Perfect

hyped garbage

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

A young woman's descent into madness is triggered during a stay at the family vacation home of her childhood friend. I almost didn't watch this film because the title seemed broad and ambiguous. However, after viewing the trailer, I wanted to know why the two female leads had this dark energy between them. I am glad I watched it. It turned out to be a visceral and engrossing psychological thriller The toxic chemistry between the female leads was palpable and authentic throughout the film. This infused the atmosphere with the constant torque of toxic personalities and unpredictable behaviors. The well-crafted dialogue explored the female leads' perceptions about significant people in their lives including each other. It also expressed their personal beliefs as a result of these experiences. I especially appreciated this aspect of the film. We always find out, at some point, why a character behaves in a certain way. What I always want to know is what mental process did you go through that caused you to act that way in the first place? We get that piece in this film and it does not spoil the story because the logic is flawed in the first place. The result is you get an unfiltered look inside the characters' minds, which is what the psychological thriller is all about. This film allows you to walk through the doors of the females leads' perceptions. To the film's credit, there are no outside forces around to characterize the women's' behavior, mitigate flaws in their thinking process or referee any conflict between them. This dynamic makes their interactions appear seamless and organic as their personalities coil tighter and tighter around each other. This is a solid slow-burn thriller that gets under your skin and begins a slow tingling crawl as you begin to see what they believe.

Films are made for many purposes and I don't know what this one is about. They say it is a psychological-thriller, but yes, there is some psychology in it, but definitely no thriller, just a boring drama which means a character study material. The entire film was shot in a lake house and occasionally its surrounding area. There is no story in it, just the characters and they're being themselves that narrated in the days basis for a week, but those days were from the random years without a clear picture of what date, month or the year.There is lots of close up shots like it pushes you back from your seat suppose if you are leaning towards the front. The cinematography was what I felt uncomfortable, but overall not bad. I think the actors were good, both Katherine Waterston and Elisabeth Moss, just for this film because I've seen them in the better roles.Low budget and limited cast film, as well as short but not sweet as I anticipated. So I don't think everybody would enjoy it, I don't know who is the target audience, but I'm sure it will reach them who are going to defend it from people like me. Those who are not seen it, but want to, I only advise them to be careful while choosing it.3/10

Slowmoving psychological drama about a woman with a mental state that's on a downward spiral after her father died.Has a bit of a eerie 70's mystery feeling to it stylewise both visually and emotionally (even though it takes place in now time).But instead of getting intrigued I just found it rather dull instead, perhaps a bit to do with the fact that I didn't find anything particularly likable about any of the characters (or interesting for that matter) and they were all fairly self-absorbed.And some scenes just go on forever with mumbling monologues of which I often found myself not knowing what exactly they were talking about because for one they mumbled quietly and also the eerie music was really loud, so that didn't really help, and the ending is rather abrupt.So yeah what can I say, not for me I guess.

A fascinating film, perhaps, for the uber elite who live in the rarefied world of privileged exceptionalism, where the life of the common person is a vague, if non-existent reality, and are instead obsessively immersed in a self absorbed universe of which they are perpetually at the center of.As for the portrayal of such, Elisabeth Moss does convincingly deliver her character with a unique sense of familiarity.The problem I had with this film is not the story itself, which probes into the frailties of the human condition within this rarefied social ecology, but rather with the pathetic nature of all of these nauseatingly self absorbed characters, none of whom I would ever have anything in common with, even under the most demanding of required social circumstances.Call me a "salt of the earth" servile dolt if so inclined, if such makes you feel more self important, but what this film did do is remind me why I have specifically avoided spending any amount of time or effort becoming enmeshed in the dramatic pathologies of the supposedly social elite, which this film does deliver a compelling depiction of.This general environment I'm quite familiar with, having had my more than my share of exposure into this sort of universe . . . and opting out of it completely.As for the film itself as an art piece, it is an interesting voyage into the disintegrating psyche of fragile, needy people.Deciphering exactly where the boundaries were between the actual realities of the moment, and the collage of flashbacks and self induced fantasies which would jaggedly pop in and out of the story thread was a bit exhausting at times, but overall this was a brave attempt to deliver a multi-threaded tapestry of intersecting plots which clearly would have been easily rendered in written form, but compressing such into a film would be much more demanding.