masterful cinematography

Rating: 9/10 (27 October 2019)

As many others have said, this is a movie I don't ever want to see again. At some point, when the craze its at the highest; you became claustrophobic and anxious, where the director purposefully makes you part of the madness. Nonetheless, their harsh themes, terrifying camerawork, alarming relationships, subtext charged with political/sociological critiques and frightening dance choreographies, made me appreciate quite a lot this film. More than a film, this is a unique experience you will never see in another work, like, NEVER; the lens throughout we're driven in this hellish pseudo-high school dance is dominative, eats-it-all in a kind of magisterial way.
I really admire and praise the technical skill and intensity poured into this artwork. Without hesitation I would say this is a horror movie. idk why, people in the US are very accustomed to "horror" in a tacky format; with dull plot lines, one dimensional characters, lacking soul, full of cliches and cringy psychopaths (without its honorable exceptions, obviously). THIS, is another thing. Like, it shows the degradation of the human soul in a traumatic, terrifying and very scary format. This is real horror, citing Sartre: "Hell is others".
Gaspar Noe gives us here not what we want, or what we knew we want, but what it's needed. Art and more specifically, cinema needs to keep pushing the boundaries of storytelling, and this is a masterful example.
I understand not everyone will see it in a objective lens; but if you do, prepare to be thrilled, shocked, amazed and terrified. Prepare to travel through a dark place of madness.