The Neon Demon

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My quick rating - 5,1/10. Highly rated movie on IMDb that deserves kudos for all the technical stuff that goes into making a film. Excellent camera work, lighting, etc. All the good stuff you take out of film school, and then usually lose when you make it to Hollywood. As of yet, the is something that has not happened to Nicolas Winding Refn quite yet. Although I would like to see a quality story to go with it. In what is not a horror movie in the slightest we have a girl caught up in the grown ups world of being a starlet. This overcomes her and leads her down a bizarre trip where she loses her sanity and becomes enthralled with the pageant world. There are all kinds of other underlying themes written in and anyone who enjoyed this movie is free to write about it. I basically plodded through a very slow movie that all the flash on screen, even the strange imagery, couldn't sustain. The characters were all so stiff (which I assume they were supposed to be) that I couldn't care less about them including the lead. I personally don't recommend it just for the boredom factor but anyone aspiring to get into film, this is a nice treat of how to use those cameras and edit the film well. Beyond educational purposes, you are left with very little.

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