#greener grass 2019

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Sims movie should actually be made by those people who made Greener Grass (2019) because the surreal/absurdist, slightly offputting/unsettling but also just comical and almost mundane horror of its uncanny reality a little to the left saturated Wes Anderson-esque isolated suburban world I think would perfectly capture just the right vibes, and you'd just have to watch it to understand what I mean, but like, sincerely, vibes, vibes, vibes.

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izi’s Random Movie Review

Greener Grass, 2019 dir. Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe

This post contains spoilers.

"This movie feels like Gerwig's Barbie but amped up x10 with a lot more to think about."

Greener Grass (2019) was a movie that caught my attention through its brightly colored poster and continued to pique my interest through its black comedy. This absurd and macabre storyline follows a neighborhood of individuals, mainly focusing on the one Jill Davies in her effortless sacrifice to please.

The entire movie sets itself up like a stereotypical role-assigned American movie, but as the storyline continues, clearly objectifies the roles that a character can play. The roles between media-centric men and women are battled roles. The children in this movie seem to harness more understanding of mature comprehension, conversation, and protest to the world around them than the braces-wearing adults who struggle to compete with one another.

Jill has a loving family, but due to the influences and harsh struggles to please the relationships around her, she slowly finds parts of herself being stripped away. The awkward conversations give into why Jill is so weak to give into the demands of those around her without much question. There are lots of confusing dynamics when it comes to intimacy that Jill struggles with, from those with her husband, her son, and her peers and friends (especially that of her friend Lisa Wetbottom). Jill fears the perceptions that others have of her becoming actualized in a less-than-perfect way. To deflect this, she spares the feelings of others and it leads to her feeling more discomforted in her own skin. She has to remember so much about those around her to make sure that she's always watching over her shoulder, that she doesn't even realize the parts of her that she's losing, both in a metaphorical self and when an impersonator comes right from under her nose to take over her life.

This movie feels like Gerwig's Barbie but amped up x10 with a lot more to think about. There are many layers of symbolism that all connect to spell out the competitive nature of their community. Jill falls heavily into the influence of others and it causes her to ruin her own life. At the end of it all, the actualization that she now realizes for herself allows her to see so many things around her that others can't, things that she has been blind about for years. Is there a betterment of life living in ignorance and feeding into competition with others?

Lisa and Jill demonstrate such an interesting relationship between two women. Upon first meeting them, we see Jill give up her new baby to her. Throughout the movie, we watch the two slowly switch places. Jill swapped out due to her submission to others' perception, and Lisa's manipulation of this weakness as she tries to manifest what she has always wanted to appear superior in her community (despite lots of what she flaunts from children, her home, and other parts of her lifestyle being fabricated from lies that no one has challenged or caught on to).

Like any movie I will review, there is always a lot more to analyze. There's more to go deeper into about the relationship Jill and Lisa have, there's more to dive into about the power dynamic children hold over the adults in this story (and how these protests to power lead to such differences in characters between Julian and Bob as children growing up and changing into people). This movie was such an inspiring watch when it comes to symbolic theming through a variety of subtle to direct approaches. The ambiance of this movie was such a refreshing watch, and I think DeBoer and Luebbe have a fantastic experimentation of chemistry together.

8/10

Check out this review and more on my Letterboxd

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SUMMARY: Soccer mums Jill and Lisa compete for approval and acceptance in a bizarre suburbia while their kids battle it out on the playing field.

Mod Z says: Nothing scarier than white suburban soccer mums

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Greener Grass (2019) Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe

September 7th 2024

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SCOUT'S NEWEST MEDIA RECOMMENDATION

Greener Grass (2019) is a surreal comedy/anxious thriller about the horrors of performative suburban life in post-WW2 america. Specifically about the confusing, contradictory, innavigable expectations put upon nuclear housewives, the definition their children lend to their lives, and the emptiness that they are left with when those superficialities are stripped away. It's deathly uncomfortable and also incredibly funny. Highly recommended!

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The Weirdest Fucking Movies I've Ever seen Pt. 1

Okay so I sort of champion myself as a lover of weird movies. And it's funny because regardless of how many I've seen, every time I watch a weird movie I genuinely feel as if it is the weirdest movie I've ever seen in my life.

So, I decided to make a list which compiles all of said weird movies and then a description of why I find each so uniquely weird. If you find any of these descriptions or titles intriguing, I recommend you seek these movies out, because a weird movie = a good life ya know so yeah

If you have more weird movies please please recommend them im hungry for new crazy cinema bebesssss

Eraserhead (1977) - genuinely makes no sense.

Coherence (2013) - trippy scientifically interesting thriller

Some Velvet Morning (2013) - abusive cat n mouse relationship

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) - emotional violence

Greener Grass (2019) - let's shame suburbia!

Trash Humpers (2009) - people fucking the trash...?

Julien Donkey-Boy (1999) - mental illness be so sad and trippy

Gummo (1997) - literal photo album of a dysfunctional town

Slaughtered Vomit Dolls (2006) - bulimia PSA in disguise

Black Bear (2020) - art seeps into the "real" world

Begotten (1990) - god kills himself

Trouble Every Day (2001) - eating people presented as...a turn on?

Baise-Moi (2000) - punk feminist murderous women are sick and society sux

Palindromes (2004) - one character is played by a ton of different actors of different ages, races, and sexes

964 Pinocchio (1991) - so much vomit, even more cyberpunk lobotomy sex machine madness

Meet the Feebles (1989) - the muppets give each other STDs and commit mass murder

In the Realm of the Senses (1976) - a torrid, pornographic affair used to escape the horrors of a war-torn world

Enter the Void (2009) - going to the past, present, and future, POV shots that include blinking, going inside the body, taboo themes with a psychedelic style

Love (2015) - horny pseudo-porno about a misogynistic asshole who somehow pulls hot, sexually adventurous women

Climax (2018) - LSD fueled nightmare

Pink Flamingos (1972) - a competition to be the "filthiest person alive" (spoiler alert: the cool drag queen wins)

Vivarium (2019) - Suburbia is still creepy, guys

Be My Cat: A Film for Anne (2015) - can we please stop having erotomania like celebrities aren't into u babe :(

No No Nooky TV (1987) - Computers being cool and saying "boobs" and "clit"

The Piano Teacher (2001) - unsafe nonconsensual bdsm and sexual repression is...no. please no.

The Night Porter (1974) - stockholm syndrome and wild bdsm stuff with postwar themes

Belle de Jour (1967) - more bdsm themes

Titane (2021) - woman fucks a car and gets pregnant

Daisies (1966) - two girls cut up pickles and destroy the patriarchy

Creep 1 and 2 (2014, 2017) - murder has never been this funny

Garbanzo Gas (2007) - a human cow gets an all-expenses paid trip to a motel before it hits the slaughterhouse

Melancholie der Engel (2009) - ew.

In Our Garden (2002) - old men dicks + weirdest dialogue I've ever heard in my life

The Rehearsal (TV series) (2022) - this is the ultimate weirdest thing ever and I don't know how else to categorize it.

Trigger Warnings (all of these movies are weird/fucked up but some of them contain actual fucked up stuff that like. happened in real life. so below are the triggers for that kind of stuff. All of these films are genuine films, not the gore stuff the internet produces, but some of them because of the country/time period/transgressiveness include content that is inappropriate and/or ethically unacceptable, so I've included those movies below)

Baise-Moi - unsimulated sex scenes which includes SA scenes that actors consented to but characters did not. this proves a feminist point but is still incredibly upsetting and stayed with me for a while as there are close ups and its awful.

In the Realm of the Senses - Please look into this one more before you watch it, I'm not going to describe things in detail because it makes me so uncomfortable but there are some scenes that involve young actors that should not ethically have been in the situations they were put in. The movie is exceptionally well made and from what I know globally respected so I don't know why they had to ruin it for me but whatever.

Pink Flamingos - One infamous scene involves an actual chicken death. It was the early 70s (long time ago and no PETA) and they apparently ate the chicken afterward, so I felt less immoral about this one but still gross.

Melancholie der Engel - okay please genuinely never watch this movie unless you're super into traumatizing yourself and are very desensitized I guess. There's a ton of actual animal abuse in very very graphic/unnecessarily disturbing shock type situations. There's other bad unsimulated stuff but this is the worst of it from what I know.

Love and Meet the Feebles contain scenes that are transphobic and/or racist, which is gross. Slaughtered Vomit Dolls was made by a very bad person. A bunch of the movies also have unsimulated sex stuff, I don't know if that makes anyone uncomfortable but if it does I'm just putting it out there.

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Greener Grass (2019) dir. Jocelyn DeBoer & Dawn Luebbe

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Greener Grass (2019) doesn't beg comparison to other films and filmmakers as much as demand it, and it does so in the way of many unique works of art - not so much because of being derivative, but more because it inspires the same sense of disquiet and upset, hits on the same dark touchstones, as others have. We want something to articulate what exactly this experience is like, and there are few enough artists working in the same sandbox that the first response is something like "it's John Waters meets David Lynch."

As comparisons go, it's no detrimental. The less you know going in, the better, but those two names together I think evoke the mixture of highly stylized, deep running dread that characterizes Greener Grass. It's also a movie which invites an inventory of all the surreal directions it goes, but that kind of list feels shallow. Lots of media is filled with strange events, but not very many works sell it quite the same. Still, the opening of the movie, much like the basic comparison, immediately tells you what to expect in tone. Suburban mom Jill, baby on her lap, perfect pink barbie clothes, watches her son fall on the soccer field. Her face twitches and struggles behind a wide, blank smile that will remain in place for the majority of the film as she watches him laying in the grass, moving his limbs sluggishly, as if she is staring at a dying fish. She turns to Lisa, next to her, in perfect blue barbie clothes, and asks if Lisa wants her baby. Neither woman deviates from the blank smile, they both speak almost like actors struggling to keep in character, their faces twitch, everything about them undercuts their dialog their expressions, the mood of the bright sunny scene and cheerful sitcom score, and Lisa decides she will take the baby.

Everything about the scene screams about something terrible being wrong, both in obvious and subtle ways, and that's much of the movie itself. Greener Grass on its surface is about the comfortable lie of the suburbs and the upper middle class of the USA, but deeper down, it's about the surface in general, not just about how hard and sad life is for rich white women. While the movie is utilizing that imagery and those tropes specifically, it's to a larger purpose speaking to isolation and privilege, masking and social roles we use, toxic masculinity and microaggressions. The plot, such as it is, may be one woman slowly falling apart, but the meaning of the movie is much broader and more intriguing - and most importantly speaks to the world beyond only what's pretty and expensive and empty. All the characters are in a barbie dreamland, in barbie dream houses, but no matter where they go the reality of people who aren't neurotypical or white or able bodied or wealthy or straight is inescapable. The strangeness and dread that lurks under blank smiles never lets the viewer relax into comfortable satire or simplistic center left reassurance of one Bad Oppressor and one Good Oppressed. It's a movie constantly screaming, through clenched teeth, how all of us are being forced into this performance, the pretty lie, that claims everything about the USA is perfect and happy. It's an amazing work of art, highly recommend checking it out while it's still free on Tubi, or anywhere good movies can be pirated.

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Documentaries to watch for Black History Month (and in general):

1. Color Adjustment (1991) dir. Marlon Riggs

2. Ethnic Notions (1986) dir. Marlon Riggs

3. Paris is Burning (1990) dir. Jennie Livingston

4. 13th (2016) dir. Ava DuVernay

5. Black Art: In the Absence of Light (2021) dir. Sam Pollard

6. Summer of Soul (2021) dir. Questlove

7. Grass is Greener (2019) dir. Fab 5 Freddy

8. Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (2017) dir. Marco Williams & Stanley Nelson Jr.

9. The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2015) dir. Stanley Nelson Jr.

10. 4 Little Girls (1997) dir. Spike Lee

Most of these are on Netflix, Max, and Kanopy (you can use Kanopy for free through your library or university!)

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as a movie person, any movies to recommend? 👀

i’ve seen your horror recs so preferably other genres if possible

no horror does eliminate like 80% of my movie recs lmao but yeah!! some non-horror faves:

everything everywhere all at once (2022)

the handmaiden (2016)

labyrinth (1986)

the last unicorn (1982)

greener grass (2019)

children who chase lost voices (2011)

but i’m a cheerleader (1999)

heathers (1989)

the iron giant (1999)

we need to talk about kevin (2011)

mysterious skin (2004)

she’s the man (2006)

clue (1985)

where the wild things are (2009)

return to seoul (2022)

donkey skin (1970)

return to oz (1985)

earth girls are easy (1988)

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Greener Grass (2019)

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Stats from Movies 1001-1100

Top 10 Movies - Highest Number of Votes

Pet Sematary (1989) had the most votes with 921 votes. I Know What You Need (2023) had the least votes with 310 votes.

The 10 Most Watched Films by Percentage

Sleepy Hollow (1999) was the most watched film with 56.4% of voters out of 424 saying they had seen it. Saint Drogo (2023) had the least "Yes" votes with 0.2% of voters out of 495.

The 10 Least Watched Films by Percentage

They/Them (2022) was the least watched film with 62.8% of voters out of 682 saying they hadn’t seen it. I Know What You Need (2023) had the least "No" votes with 5,2% of voters out of 310.

The 10 Most Known Films by Percentage

Pet Sematary (1989) was the best known film, 3,8% of voters out of 921 saying they’d never heard of it.

The 10 Least Known Films by Percentage

I Know What You Need (2023) was the least known film, 94.2% of voters out of 310 saying they’d never heard of it.

The movies part of the statistic count and their polls below the cut.

What Josiah Saw (2021) It Comes at Night (2017) Something in the Dirt (2022) Lisa Frankenstein (2024) The Toxic Slime Creature (1982) The House of the Devil (2009) The Dark and the Wicked (2020) Shin Godzilla (2016) Run (2020) Nine Dead (2009)

The Addiction (1995) The Guardian (1990) Open 24 Hours (2018) Here Comes Hell (2019) Sweet Home (2015) Like Dogs (2021) The Stylist (2020) Saint Drogo (2023) Girl on the Third Floor (2019) Evil Bong (2006)

The Hunger (1983) Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama (1988) Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama 2 (2022) Bed Rest (2022) Witchhammer (1970) Leonor (1975) Cold Skin (2017) The Vourdalak (2023) Blood for Dracula (1974) Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)

The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer (2003) The Dirties (2013) The Vigil (2019) Storm of the Century (1999) Infinity Pool (2023) The Final Wish (2018) Devil (2010) Uzumaki (2000) Horror in the High Desert 2: Minerva (2023) Blood Red Sky (2021)

The Finale (2023) The People Under the Stairs (1991) Eli (2019) Autopsy (2008) Sleepy Hollow (1999) The Gay Bed and Breakfast of Terror (2007) I Walked with a Zombie (1943) Paganini Horror (1988) Titane (2021) Burying the Ex (2014)

They Remain (2018) Vicious Fun (2020) Vivarium (2019) Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel (2018) Hell House LLC III: Lake of Fire (2019) Summer of '84 (2018) A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985) Sweet Sixteen (1983) Popcorn (1991) April Fool's Day (1986)

Eerie (2018) Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) Greener Grass (2019) The Innocents (2021) Dark Harvest (2023) Häxan (1922) Dark Light (2019) Arthur, Malédiction (2022) Polaroid (2019) Antisocial (2013)

Headless Horseman (2007) Radius (2017) Goblin (2020) Havenhurst (2016) The ABCs of Death (2012) Abandoned Dead (2015) Pet Sematary (1989) Dark Water (2005) Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor (2023) Witches Straight From Hell (2023)

Belzebuth (2017) Fade to Black (1980) Scanners (1981) Blood Punch (2013) Cannibals and Carpet Fitters (2017) Split (2016) Game of Death (2017) Paperhouse (1988) The Baby (1973) Splatter: Naked Blood (1996)

A Perfect Child of Satan (2012) Blair Witch (2016) Night of the Devils (1972) I Know What You Need (2023) Midnight Son (2011) Slaxx (2020) They/Them (2022) The Darkness (2016) Wind Chill (2007) Crypt of the Vampire (1964)

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