^^^^srsly
― Laertiades (imago), Monday, 14 March 2016 15:26 (eight years ago) link
oh no i'm happy with leaving things to interpretation etc, and I think one of the best things about Kill List is that it presents things in a disjointed way and doesn't spoon feed you the plot. I just didn't feel as though that style worked so well on AFIE. Rather than being intrigued, I just felt confused and tipping on the edge of being a bit bored by it. Might need to try giving it another go, but it just felt a bit 'random'. Some sequences were great, others just frustrating and illogical and reminded me of bad student films... Not sure if it was the set I was watching it on, but the way the dialogue was put together meant I had trouble understanding a what people were saying most of the time too.
― draxx them sklounst (dog latin), Monday, 14 March 2016 19:10 (eight years ago) link
Maybe it was deliberate, but I found it really hard to understand what was motivating a lot of the characters to do what they did, and 'LOL shrooms' doesn't feel like a very satisfactory answer even though that's probably the reason.
― draxx them sklounst (dog latin), Monday, 14 March 2016 19:12 (eight years ago) link
i loved it the first time through and found it tantalizing rather than frustrating, but if you're game for a rewatch, it might be useful to read up on some of the folklore about mushroom circles and the like
― home organ, Monday, 14 March 2016 23:19 (eight years ago) link
huh, I just found out Laurie Rose is not a woman
― Number None, Monday, 14 March 2016 23:22 (eight years ago) link
High-Rise is fantastic. My favorite film this year so far.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 01:15 (seven years ago) link
Saw a field in England the last night and liked it very much but think that it's quite clearly not bothered about 'making sense' as a plot. Loved the floaty mystic stylised feel and the nature and the characters and the performers and wow did it look great.
Kill list otoh has plots, they just contradict each other and there's no one answer that makes sense within the film's logic. That's fine too, it's quite brilliant without having to tick off plot boxes at the end.
― Betsy DeVos Ayes (darraghmac), Saturday, 11 February 2017 16:56 (seven years ago) link
Somehow I made it to 2019 without having seen Kill List or having it spoiled - what a movie!
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 17 January 2019 06:52 (five years ago) link
behold the dark heart of england
― imago, Thursday, 17 January 2019 06:59 (five years ago) link
it's one of my favourite films of the last ten years
― frame casual (dog latin), Thursday, 17 January 2019 07:50 (five years ago) link
yep.
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Thursday, 17 January 2019 09:21 (five years ago) link
Still thinking about this. I've been so frustrated and disappointed with the current round of gimmicky or mystery box horror movies...
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 04:25 (five years ago) link