29/11
Bailey seeks attention and adventure elsewhere
Plot
Bailey lives with her brother Hunter and her father Bug, who is raising them alone in a squat in north Kent. Bug doesn’t have much time to devote to them.
The short Wasp is also fantastic
Barry Keoghan dropped out of Gladiator II (2024) to star in this film. I’m a fan of Arnold, although for me his big film is Fish Tank, not so much American Mel.
So I had high expectations for Bird, especially with Barry Keoghan in it, but yesterday I saw it at a festival and I’m deeply disappointed
The young actress doesn’t deliver at all, and as usual, Franz Rogowski too – honestly, I don’t know why they keep casting him here and there. The film doesn’t focus on a specific story, but rather on the issue of teenage pregnancy in marginalized communities, and it just falls apart in the various aspects it tries to explore.
The audience burst out laughing when the big bird carried off the attacker
The magical element, which is supposed to symbolize the human spirit rising above the bleak reality, is poorly connected to the events, its message is simplistic and the visuals are ridiculous. But the film’s greatest sin is that it has nothing to do with reality, and when the final song asked, “Is it too real for you?”, I shouted in the theater, “No!” It tries to pass itself off as authentic, even exaggerating material poverty, but at the same time it completely sugarcoats the characters and their relationships.
It’s a typical propaganda technique, pretending to show mercy to the victims, but in fact rejecting them even more and refusing to empathize with them unless they behave “correctly” For comparison, watch Gummo, where even the youngest children are completely corrupted, and that’s the real tragedy that hits you hard
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