Starting with the positives, the best thing about this film for me is the casting. Thomasin McKenzie is fantastic all throughout this film. You absolutely buy her as this brave but shy and naive girl who is excited for her new path but is scared and overwhelmed by everything as well. And as the film goes along, you see her psychology break down and she's got to portray so many emotions and feelings. I've seen her in stuff before but this is my favourite performance of hers.
But this film is packed with great actors. The late fantastic Diana Rigg, Anya Taylor-Joy, Matt Smith, Richard Madden and Sam Claflin in very small roles, Terence Stamp who looks unrecognizable. This film also has unknown stars who I can see becoming bigger actors in the future so the cast overall is fantastic.
Another great thing about this film are the aesthetics. This film is just gorgeous to look at. From the colour correction to the lighting, it's just beautifully made and filmed. The cinematography is also handled really well and smartly used. There's a sequence where Anya Taylor-Joy and Thomasin McKenzie have to perform a filming technique called the Texas Switch where two actors perform the same scene but the camera has to transition from actor to actor and it must have been so hard to film.
It's also very impressive to see the film transition from present day to the 1960s and it very much feels like a 1960s era. The production for it is just incredible.
I also admire Edgar Wrights style and approach to the story. If you break it down, it's a familiar story but because of who Edgar Wright is, he's able to turn it into something visually original so I do have to applaud him for what he was able to do. He's even able to take familiar horror film tropes and visualize them into his style to make them feel current.
And finally I loved the 1960s soundtrack to this film. So many songs from the 1960s converted into present day sounds amazing and it's used very well to the tone of the film. Even in the 60s era, the soundtrack is used very efficiently.
However whilst there is so much to admire and appreciate about this film, I did have a few problems so time to move onto the negatives. Now as I go into this, I just want to say there will be people who watch this film and will love it. They will say it's one of the best films of the year and and that is fine. I have a feeling I will be very much in the minority when I talk about how I felt about the film and I'm fine with that.
Now for my issues and really there's only one but it's quite significant, this film felt very much like style over substance. Yes I love the style of the film but there's time where scenes feel too stylized and what affected it more for me was the story. Edgar Wright feels more invested in styling his scenes and because of that, it makes the story feel incomprehensible and it's all throughout the film so it made me struggle to enjoy it.
This film is an example how a film can have so many things right with it but it's enjoyment is down to whether it's the film for you and if you're the target audience for Edgar Wrights style of films and I feel that I am not. Whilst I appreciated and loved so much about the film, I just didn't enjoy it that much. I felt it was massively overhyped and very overrated.
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