Review of Bang Bang Baby (2014) by Andrew M — 22 Aug 2015

A 60s set, semi-sci-fi that is a metaphor for the elaborate mental gymnastics the girl does to justify marrying her rapist and dealing with the resulting child. That took a while after the film finished for me to process, as this is also a musical, it's all intercut with the highly energetic 60s pop style musical numbers as she both fends off her rapists and her mental projection of the famous singer she sometimes sees him as, all while her town is covered in a purple haze from a chemical factory malfunction that's mutating everyone.

You can hopefully figure out the meanings of the above. So, yeah, this is not a film that will appeal to everyone, but as for me, there's a certain low-budget style and energy that carried me through a lot of the more WTF moments since it all seemed appropriately surreal, given how much of this was supposedly just her mentally coping with her situation.

Still felt disjointed at times, with some jumps from one scene to a seemingly unrelated scene with no transitions. The acting's fine, especially given the surreal nature, but the audio mix was a bit off, with the songs VERY apparently being dubbed in later and the volume being off at times.

Still enjoyable for what it is, even if I'm still not sure I'm interpreting it correctly.