Subjectively, the movie was more confusing than anything. It was extremely hard to follow, and the plot seemed to be random in attempt to provide suspense. I was not very fond of the direction of the movie since it was very anticlimactic. The "climax" was more of a series of gruesome events that occurred right after another with no transition; everything seemed to happen all at once. Though these events were very abrupt, they were the only interesting parts of the film since there was a lot of emotion and drama happening in each scene. By the end of the film, I felt very odd because of the situations that happened within the Lodges and felt empathy towards the black family that moved in. The movie was odd in the sense that it started with a very positive view on this suburban town and then as time went on, the movie filled with murder, racial violence, domestic abuse, and many unorthodox actions to completely turn the movie around. It is hard to explain everything without giving any spoilers, so the movie is definitely one to check out and see how everything turns out. Overall, the movie was pretty poor objectively and subjectively, however I still would recommend to watch it in order to see the drastic change of events.
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Be Reel: Suburbicon
This past weekend I went to see the new movie, Suburbicon directed by the George Clooney, which features a perfect suburban town with perfect people. However, this town has a mask that covers the disturbing reality of father Gardner Lodge (Matt Damon) and his family who must navigate the their violent flaws. Without spoiling anything, the movie must be watched in order to understand the mess that is portrayed within this family and town. Everything seems perfect, until a black family moves into the purely white town, where mayhem starts immediately. There is a murderous atmosphere within the Lodge family, causing major issues that ride parallel with the issues faced by the new black family that moved in. As the issues within the Lodge Family get more and more intense, the riots around the black family's become more and more violent as the movie progresses, alternating back and forth of each family's issues. However, these issues never intersect within the movie, becoming an objective flaw. These two extremely different experiences of family's seem a little random to the entirety of the movie. Another objective flaw is the clarity of the plot. Within the Lodge family's issues, it takes some time to figure out what exactly is going on, and to see who is a protagonist versus antagonist. By being unclear, the audience (including myself) had a critical eye in trying to understand everything clearly. The tone of the film was able to transfer from a positive tone to a negative tone very quickly, which could be an objective advantage since it added to the suspenseful purposes of the film and properly kept the audience on the edge of their seats wondering what was going to happen. The movie also consisted of many microaggressions regarding the black family who moved in. These microaggressions created empathy towards the innocent family, suffering in a violent environment that used to be pure.
Subjectively, the movie was more confusing than anything. It was extremely hard to follow, and the plot seemed to be random in attempt to provide suspense. I was not very fond of the direction of the movie since it was very anticlimactic. The "climax" was more of a series of gruesome events that occurred right after another with no transition; everything seemed to happen all at once. Though these events were very abrupt, they were the only interesting parts of the film since there was a lot of emotion and drama happening in each scene. By the end of the film, I felt very odd because of the situations that happened within the Lodges and felt empathy towards the black family that moved in. The movie was odd in the sense that it started with a very positive view on this suburban town and then as time went on, the movie filled with murder, racial violence, domestic abuse, and many unorthodox actions to completely turn the movie around. It is hard to explain everything without giving any spoilers, so the movie is definitely one to check out and see how everything turns out. Overall, the movie was pretty poor objectively and subjectively, however I still would recommend to watch it in order to see the drastic change of events.
Subjectively, the movie was more confusing than anything. It was extremely hard to follow, and the plot seemed to be random in attempt to provide suspense. I was not very fond of the direction of the movie since it was very anticlimactic. The "climax" was more of a series of gruesome events that occurred right after another with no transition; everything seemed to happen all at once. Though these events were very abrupt, they were the only interesting parts of the film since there was a lot of emotion and drama happening in each scene. By the end of the film, I felt very odd because of the situations that happened within the Lodges and felt empathy towards the black family that moved in. The movie was odd in the sense that it started with a very positive view on this suburban town and then as time went on, the movie filled with murder, racial violence, domestic abuse, and many unorthodox actions to completely turn the movie around. It is hard to explain everything without giving any spoilers, so the movie is definitely one to check out and see how everything turns out. Overall, the movie was pretty poor objectively and subjectively, however I still would recommend to watch it in order to see the drastic change of events.
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Stelios,
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading this blog, It was extremely informative. I liked how you went into strong detail of the movie and the subjective and the objective lens of things. I think that I would really enjoy this movie, even as confusing as it is. It seems very complex but once you understand the deeper meanings, it then makes more sense to the audience. Overall, great analysis of the movie, Stelios!
Jesse