Elle Zee

I have a lot of thoughts about this film. There’s a lot of good and a lot of “huh?” Firstly, if you are a woman who’s been assaulted, be very very warned coming into this movie. You will be triggered. The scenes are graphic and exploitative and incredibly accurate. I was crying hysterically watching the scenes in sequential order—it’s a solid 5 minutes with no break. And no, you don’t really know exactly what’s coming until it hits and it’s ugly. Believe me. The young actress looks roughed up as hell, and maybe this is especially why it’s hard to see her choose not to go to police. And even harder to see her (and almost hard to believe) not speak her mind or be questioned by police so thoroughly that she would’ve had to have given the whole truth anyway??? Feels unrealistic. About the movie overall; the women give an impressive performance across the board of a script that feels very……girlboss heavy. Like a man directed it. It gives it a man’s world overall feeling, but there’s too many moments of … dare I say triumph? And too soon together this far into her life? The most real moment of women’s anger is in the last twenty seconds when a woman on the street stops and recognizes her and chastises her for reporting the rape against someone who…was good with climate change? And yet…would that ever happen in real life??? This is a woman who survived a school shooting and a rape and … you want me to believe someone on the street would just … The story feels a little forced when they open with this “I’m in my evil girl era” voice over narrative that feels corny. And is immediately done away with. There’s a lot of that in this movie. But overall, Mila’s performance carries the whole thing almost Oscar-adjacent. The editing and everything else is not on her side and she still turns out this performance, and I still feel something real with her and her performance, even when everything else feels forced.

Okay so where do I start? First of all, plot holes: the movie Second of all, cops still useless even in fantasy world Third, the brother didn’t raise him (the brother is not the dad) Fourth, why were they elves if the fantasy world was a c-plot literally useless why was it there Fifth, idk just really reaching with the comedy on this one. Didn’t hit the right note. Idk I thought it was a bad midpoint between Shrek and tangled.