Quirky, Edgy, Dark, Funny

Rating: 10/10 (15 February 2020)

I read a review that viewed this movie as social commentary, posing the question of what would have happened if Sharon Tate hadn't been killed by the Manson family. I must have watched a different movie. First, the movie doesn't tell us what would have happened one way or another. Second, we don't know from the movie that Sharon Tate wasn't killed. We don't see her in the end scene. Actually, in the end scene, I was left wondering if Leonardo's character would be murdered when he got to the Tate house. That other review said that Leonardo's character had finally been invited into the status that he had coveted. He may have been invited to the house, but we don't know what happened to him once he got there. The ending had a spooky feeling, and I was surprised the other reviewer had been able to read so much into what is essentially unknown. Now, if you want to watch it and then use it as a party game to come up with might have been an ending, that's fine. Other than that, the ending is -- well -- open-ended. I liked the movie. I found it humorous when these two guys stumbled into the Manson family retreat. I know the significance of that and, were it me, I'd have been out as quickly as possible. The characters didn't know what they were dealing with, which gave the movie both a dark humor and a kind of edginess.