Twenty-first review is for an Iranian vampire femme fatale, art-house movie. Since it came out I have seen this movie poster all over the place and finally took time to watch. Vampire, drugs, class struggles, naïveté, survival. Includes #spoilers :
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A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (2014) Pros: The use of contrast with the black and white was exciting to watch, the sound mixing went together really well, the sound effects and score more than the music. The introduction to each character was exciting and the father and son dynamic was heartbreaking but we see how Arash’s morality keeps slipping and slipping due to stress. When he was on drugs and encounters the vampire girl, I was so entertained. He was smacked, cooked, fried, all of that and her mix of adoration and pity for him was clear to see.
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Cons: Skipped a bunch of scenes that just went too long, the scene where they listen to music in her spot, the dancing with balloons, when he’s looking around her apartment at the end when he says they should leave and the cat he stole in the beginning strolls up. It’s def a stylistic choice, and those scenes didn’t need to be removed just severely edited, because after the 3rd time skipping through a scene I felt like I was being punished, all shade. And that ending, chillllllle 🚩 🚩🚩: He don’t know your name and gifts you diamond earrings, you walk away, and then he shows up to your house like “Pack a bag.” I was prepared for her to be like, “Ohh actually you’re not a good guy, gimme that neck vein.” And when he SAW the cat he didn’t ask the most obvious of questions: Where you get that cat? And the ending was equal parts, Aww this is the beginning of their adventure AND anticlimactic, like the space for confrontation was like a fire that was snuffed out by a heavy boot.
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I rate this a healthy 7. The pros were great, but the cons keep me from wanting to rewatch it or give it my cosign as a movie that made me feel interested for the whole run time. I lost some of my steam in the middle but I would recommend it to folks. Similar movies: Let the Right One In, Nicole, Nosferatu, and Final Girl
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