Was really taken with the mood of the first half but this definitely started to lose me as things get more thematically expository and even less happens plot wise.
Even a couple days later though, the movie as a whole works pretty well in my memory, and the final shot is devastating. I'd have to see it again knowing where it ends up to see if I'm now on board with Smith's performance though lol.
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Just like Nowhere, this movie is a pretty unserious time until one of the characters dies a shocking death in the final scene.
I don't really know what I'm talking about, but I get the sense that Gregg Araki has experience with a friend or partner being violently and pointlessly ripped away.
Should have seen it coming, but it's devastating that it's not the cooler more empowered characters but instead indie-Keanu and (I think) Araki self-insert softboy James Duvall who is brutally murdered.
Fall 2011 - You see that they made a Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots movie with Hugh Jackman. You think it looks stupid.
October 2011 - Real Steel is released, and it gets pretty good reviews. You think, " interesting, maybe I'll see that sometime".
November 2011 to March 2020 - You have a good high school experience. You navigate drugs and alcohol for the first time. You fall in love. You lose her. You graduate. You attend film school.…
