well i finally watched after the hunt
2.5 out of 5. And that’s for Julia’s shade of blonde.
What a fucking snooze.
It took me six hours of starting and stopping this movie to finally finish it. I shoveled twice, washed my hair, made dinner and still had thirty agonizing minutes left to get through.
After the Hunt cannot seem to decide on its point. It refuses to make a decision about how it feels about the sexual assault. It attempts to criticize gender politics with many odd comments from supposed intellectuals.
All on the cushy, very-liberal campus of Yale University.
That’s why I find the plot confusion to be so odd. It feels as though the answer to the question is obvious and writer Nora Garrett has no interest in answering it.
The highlights of the film are the dedicated performances from Garfield and Roberts. Unfortunately, Ayo Edebiri is entirely too wooden to be taken seriously as a drama actor.
Her line delivery always annoys me — she delivers like she can’t still believe that she was somehow allowed on a film set. And neither can I.
I’m finishing this essay weeks later and I can’t tell you what the point of the movie was. I will say that Luca Guadagnino is reaching his limit, I fear.
Perhaps, it’s time for a break. Challengers was fine. I went into it expecting full-blown sexiness and got PG-13. I cut off Bones and All when she bit that poor girl’s finger off.
The last few movies of his were essentially two hour long Loewe advertisements. Roberts, Edebiri, and Garfield looked amazing. Hair included.
I find this to be the issue with a lot of films this past year — they want to say something, but fall short. Why? Is it a culture thing? Women’s rights? The “woke mob?”
Why are we so afraid of saying, “Rape is bad, and those Gen Z kids are annoying but also right?”
After the Hunt left a very sour taste in my mouth. I was bored, unconvinced, and unmoved. That’s the review.