Review of Blue Bayou (2021) by Mauro_Lanari — 05 Feb 2022

(Mauro Lanari).

The end does not justify the means and Justin Chon, in his fourth film as director and here also screenwriter and main interpreter, proves to be incapable: he does not make it clear where he wants to go before the help of the final captions, he does not decide between the relevance of a childhood trauma and the wrong choices made as an adult, that is, if the responsibilities are parental, personal, systemic, legislative, police, does not use different shots from the close-up (a male version of "La passion de Jeanne d'Arc"?), does not give space to the other protagonists, does not avoid abusing a depressing trumpet in the score, does not dodge the slipping into the melodramatic.