03-19-2019, 01:46 PM
I Don't Feel At Home in this World Anymore (2017)
I technically watched this before but I was drunk and didn't remember it at all, so it basically doesn't count. All I remember thinking was that it felt like Jeremy Saulnier, which is so reductive that you can find it in pretty much every review of the film. However, it's also accurate. It's also not an insult as I enjoy Jeremy Saulnier's movies a lot and they were all crafted with Macon Blair so it makes sense that the two would have similar sensibilities and style. However, the key difference as far as I could tell was Macon Blair has a much funnier bend to his gruesome, sporadic violence. Blair writes more jokes here, not comedy borne out of what's physically happening but just humor in general. It serves to alleviate the tension quite well. I appreciate the style a lot, and it was cast perfectly to this end. That being said, while this was good, it never hit the heights of Blue Ruin or Green Room, for me. I cared deeply about the main characters, but the plot seemed to be a thing that they fell into in various ways (rather than as a consequence of actions). Also, the messaging was clearly articulated, but in the end I didn't get more out of it than "people are assholes and life is random."
I technically watched this before but I was drunk and didn't remember it at all, so it basically doesn't count. All I remember thinking was that it felt like Jeremy Saulnier, which is so reductive that you can find it in pretty much every review of the film. However, it's also accurate. It's also not an insult as I enjoy Jeremy Saulnier's movies a lot and they were all crafted with Macon Blair so it makes sense that the two would have similar sensibilities and style. However, the key difference as far as I could tell was Macon Blair has a much funnier bend to his gruesome, sporadic violence. Blair writes more jokes here, not comedy borne out of what's physically happening but just humor in general. It serves to alleviate the tension quite well. I appreciate the style a lot, and it was cast perfectly to this end. That being said, while this was good, it never hit the heights of Blue Ruin or Green Room, for me. I cared deeply about the main characters, but the plot seemed to be a thing that they fell into in various ways (rather than as a consequence of actions). Also, the messaging was clearly articulated, but in the end I didn't get more out of it than "people are assholes and life is random."
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