WHY

Rating: 1/10 (9 May 2020)

Literally, all I can say is WHY? Who funded this? Why make it and why did I watch it.
Immediately after, I pulled up a video of the Director's trailer commentary to explain the plot, inspirations, and the genre/direction. My reaction to his explanation was a constant eye roll!
He said it's a break up move, yet there is not enough character development before the tragedy and distasteful gore to even care about the characters, let alone remember their names. THEN he equates the human life of her boyfriend to a 'box full of toxic memories to throw into the fire to burn it all away'...an Oddly literal statement and very unsettling plot for a movie Ari but now I understand, the goal actually was to leave the audience with a sick depraved feeling in their stomach. But wait, the director said, "he wants to leave the audience confused." Sure, but the only thing I'm wondering is why I invested any of my time into this film. It just feels so unnecessary. Not my style. Ironically we recently watched the original wicker man-not knowing the 'influence' here, while viewing my husband and I both agreed it felt unoriginal and shallow. I almost want to apologize because I've never hated on a movie so much but I'm not sorry.