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Reviews
Starfish (2018)
deep meaning for the writer and nobody else
Its pretty clearly a direct scoop of whatever was going on in the director/writers head at the time, only referencing their personal + internal... culture? Lore? Spirituality?
If you're looking for a "cohesive narrative you can Get" it is not here. If you're looking for a view of something surreal and personal and probably meaningless to you beyond the general theme of "grief", and Highly meaningful to the writer in opaque ways- it's here. It's starfish.
Personally i love it but i love when people express their internal states and insert you in their worlds with no particular explanation of patterns, motifs, meanings. It's not for everyone. I'd describe the genre as "surreal" more than anything. It's only horror by technicality of rapture-like apocalypse and random monsters you see about 5 minutes of.
Daddy Issues (2018)
good premise but i wish it was more fleshed out
Maya is a lesbian neet artist who's sexually inexperienced and obsessing over an instagram influencer (jasmine) who she goes to a party to meet. Jasmine saves her from a creepy guy and maya falls even more in love. Jasmine has a sugar daddy who she has an ABDL relationship with, who turns out to be maya's long lost dad. Things get weird because feelings aren't mutual, and, because jasmine has sexual relationships with 2 related people.
I like watching movies about queer sexuality and the camera work and editing for this was beautiful but styling and character development felt simplistic and flat. Maya clearly wears things inspired by pastel jfashion, fairy kei, etc, but her outfits look like they were bought in a 20 minute mall trip. All the characters felt like they could've had more complexity and depth, as it stands, they all felt one dimensional. Maya and jasmine's relationship is questionable the entire time- common in queer relationships especially with inexperienced partners- but i wish the negative and mismatched-emotions of their relationship had more story, background, intensity, and grit.
This is the director's first film so i'm hoping future movies from her feel more fully developed and with more than superficial style.