#it feels weird Not having a purpose y'know. but whatever. they have complied with my wishes We have grape candy rn. 👍

[euclydya]

they all want me to front more or even Be like consistently In the general headspace area & I'm like Ok. steady supply of grape candy then, bitch. and they're annoyed by it lmao

[whatyourusherthinks]

Kinds of Kindness Review

Welcome to the first movie of what I like to call: The Weirdest Triple Feature I've Ever Done, but y'know what? I was actually looking forward to all three of these movies. Yorgos Lanthimos made Poor Things, which was my pick to win Best Picture at the Oscars this year. I really like that movie. And this movie has a lot of the same actors! Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley... That's it. (Really? I could've sworn the guy who played the nihilist was in this movie.) But whatever! I'm probably really gonna like this movie!

What's The Movie About?

This movie has 3 parts; one about a guy falling out with the guy controlling his life, another about a cop's wife returning home from being lost at sea and being a replicant, and the third is about two cult members trying to find their messiah.

What I Like.

Willem Dafoe and Emma Stone were pretty good. So was the humor. I really liked the cinematography, there were shots when people were walking one direction and their refection on a set mirror made it look like they were coming from the opposite direction. That was cool. The cultists in the third story were kinda likable. They drove a purple Dodge Challenger and I sympathized with Emma Stone's character in that part, weirdly enough. There were a couple parts where one of Emma Stone's characters were explaining their dreams and I thought it was cool.

What I'm Not Sure I Like Or Not.

Uh... You changed the typical heading of this section Roan. Yeah. Maybe I'm being too nice but there's quite a bit of this movie that I found incredibly uncomfortable but I think I respect the movie from going there, or that was bad but I'm pretty sure that it was bad on purpose. Let's start with the uncomfortable stuff. This movie has forced abortions, Emma Stone cutting her fingers off so Jesse Plemons can eat them, and threesomes with Willem Dafoe. And the best part is that it always just comes out of nowhere. Clearly it's intentionally to take the audience off balance, but I need a little warning before you suddenly show an orgy on screen, aight? The nudity in this movie also feels gross, but not in the clinical way I liked in Poor Things, in a treating-women-like-livestock way. I mean, they literally are measuring boobs at one point. Also, Jesse Plemons. I don't know anything about him in real life, but he frightens me greatly. The only scary thing he does is the cannibalizing his Emma Stone thing, but even when his character is pathetic or a wallflower he just exudes an aura that makes me want to cry and plead for my life. (This is just because of his character in Civil War isn't it? SO WHAT IF IT IS BUGGNUTZ?) And now, the bad on purpose stuff. The acting and dialogue is awkward. It's almost exactly the same as it is in Poor Thing, but Poor Thing's setting was strange and out of time, so it made sense that everyone talked like weird Victorians. This could just be Yorgos's style though. The stories are confusing, morally speaking. I don't think they are supposed to be happy stories or that you're supposed to idolize the characters, but each one seems to have a moral that is either "Comply and fall in line with the man controlling your life" or "Listen to your darkest impulses, they are always correct." My read could be completely wrong I suppose but I still got that impression.

Final Summation.

There was this movie that came out last year called Saltburn. It starred Barry Keoghan as an obsessed serial killer and it was a good, but incredible uncomfortable movie to watch. When I did a personal ranking of all the movies I saw last year for my friends, I put it relatively low on the list because there were several moments I had to turn my head away from the screen and couldn't watch. Kinds of Kindness is basically Poor Things if it made me feel like I was watching Saltburn.

I felt like I was being held at gunpoint watching this movie. Usually when someone says something like that, they are complaining about the length of the movie, but I'm not. (It is quite a long movie but I didn't really feel it, hence why I'm only mentioning it now.) I'm instead talking about how uncomfortable and frankly, distressed the movie made me feel. Y'know that joke from Family Guy "How David Lynch Stole Christmas"? I was the kid. Only I did look away, and I'm not going to leave a plate of black coffee out for this movie. That's really what my final conclusion for this movie is. I couldn't really watch about half the movie, so I can't really recommend it. Watch Poor Things instead I guess.