Written by Tom
I’m watching at least ten films a month and uploading small reviews of them to this blog. Here’s my thoughts on everything I watched this March.
21. Babyteeth (2019, Dir. Shannon Murphy)
A terminally ill teenager falls in love with a drug addict. Slow and deliberate, it’s a bit more ragged and cynical than your usual “teen with cancer love story” and thus feels more emotionally honest, leading to a gut-wrenching final half hour.
22. She Dies Tomorrow (2020, Dir. Amy Seimetz)
A young woman’s belief that she’s going to die tomorrow spreads through her social group like a disease, everyone becoming convinced that they’re about to snuff it. Leaving the exact mechanics of what’s going on deliberately vague, the film seeks to capture what it’s like to live under inexplicable dread, a laudable goal given our current existences under an increasingly fractured capitalist state beset by an all-encompassing pandemic. The filmmaking used to capture this feeling is in turn striking and hallucinatory in all the right ways. That said, I wonder if it has much to say about late capitalism’s death drive or if it is purely that death drive put on screen.
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