After the Hunt

5.3 - I’ve sat on this review for too long; I just couldn’t bring myself to even figure out my thoughts.

It was a slog at its over two hour run time. It’s overwritten & excessively pretentious, while focused on a topic that has unfortunately been almost completely depleted in today’s climate. It wants to be provoking but doesn’t dig in enough to actually provoke, & instead settles for lazy satire and stabs at college and gen z culture. And the ending gives us so much nothing that I almost want to drop my rating even further.

There is some cool camera work, some underwhelming but ok music, & a couple performances with enough life in them to keep me seated through the whole thing, but for what could have been one of the year’s best between its theme & the names attached it sadly ended up much closer to the year’s biggest let down. Someone get Ayo in a true quality project please.

this movie made me realize that i will never be one of those hoity toity ppl who sit and have conversations about the implications of morality in society. like sorry that im funny and like to enjoy my life. while i absolutely do have the ability to keep up with those conversations. they’re not difficult to follow. it’s not my intelligence i swear. the need to sound intelligent in spaces like that is so ANNOYINGGGGGG. like stfu and talk about smth else. like you’re smocking cigarettes, where’s the weed. like yall have cunt ass music playing in the background and you was to talk about restorative justice vs vengeance like BORRRRRIIIINGG.

“so what you’re just fine???” “yes i’m feeling cunt” TOMATOESSSSSS IM THROWING THEM AT THE SCREEN CAUSE THESE PPL ARE LITERALLY 50

that lady is CONSTANTLY cross faded. i fucking knew it was an ulcer. i was destined to be a physician but i realized that i love life and want to serve. the fuck do i look like being a doctor.

okay so revealing her past relationship with her dads best friend is so interesting. the idea was that she continuously came on to him and she’s saying that she manipulated him into being with her essentially. but she was 15 and her husband is like “girl you were deadass 15 as a grown man he should’ve said NOOOOO no matter how hard you tried.” she wrote an article abt him exposing him which she swears are lies. and he ends up killing himself. i honestly feel like her need for control and the embarrassment of being manipulated despite her intelligence embarrasses her. THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH INTELLIGENCE BTW. and she’d rather sound like the abuser rather than the abused. she kept a picture of him in an envelope even in her 50s. and when telling her husband about it she says “i love him” he said “i love you”. which i think that she truly believes what she was saying but the fact that he even allowed them to be in a position for her to try to pursue him already puts him at fault sorry. this movie is the personification of when a boomer says smth really emotionally jarring that they went through and think it’s not a big deal and didn’t effect them.

if a child is coming on to you as an adult you fucking know to avoid them, tell their parent, or never be alone with them. i think this is the moment that her husband realized that she’s too far gone to even comprehend the idea that the victims that she is so skeptical of, is literally her.

i love her husband he’s so cunt i don’t gaf

there are noooooo direct quotes btw. i don’t think i really understood the movie but i liked it. also fuck y’all like the idea of andrew’s character not raping her was less likely that him raping her. u didn’t believe him for a second

My likes outweigh the bad here, from the detailed academic world to the ambiguous ending. The performances reel you in as the story goes, especially Julia Roberts. It can sometimes feel frustrating, but at least the film forces you to think deeper.

6.5

The soundtracks really annoyed me by 🫩

“not everything is supposed to make you comfortable” well the score surely didn’t. is this a safe space to say i hate hank?

um toma lá da cá confuso mas raso