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Barton 2022-04-19 09:02:36

The protagonist is very cute, and the scenes with youth and rotten love are good. In terms of the plot, I think it is a failure, hypocritical, and vulgar. The rotten American dream, confused love, vulgar. There are so many great road movies in play, this one is obviously not among them.

Moreover, it is still a typical British mockery of the American dream, feeling a lot of obscenity. American elements rely on music, Midwestern place names, Midwestern cowboys, and the puritan spirit of variants, and there is not much down-to-earth content. Far better than a fish tank.

The end of the film is colorful, very exciting. The contrast between the bonfire and the deserted lake is like being baptized, like a new life after being lost. Fireflies fly. There are also detailed descriptions of natural insect sounds in the film, which are full of summer chaos. All in all, I feel that there is too much prejudice in this film, which leads to hypocrisy. However, the artistic value is still good. Like the plane flying over the stars and Jake in the car, the bugs crawling on the car, the sprinkler that starts when they hug each other, and the grasshopper on the star's shoulder.

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  • Tremaine 2022-03-22 09:02:26

    The director is 55, still such a girl as a foreigner, but she shows the young American youth to the extreme. The combination of road movie + youth rebellious film is still a confused girl's mental journey of finding herself and herself, weakening the story soundtrack and photography, but watching the whole process I don't think it's very long. At the end, American Honey really wants to cry. The biggest feeling of the film is the truth.

American Honey quotes

  • Pagan: You know what Darth Vader looks like beneath that mask? He's a skeleton. Just like the rest of us.

  • Krystal: Got anybody who's gonna miss you?

    Star: Not really.

    Krystal: OK good. You're hired.