Review of Earthquake Bird (2019) by Jluis_001 — 01 Dec 2019

Earthquake Bird is an interesting, cryptic and enigmatic film that unfortunately fell short of quality to respond to its own ambitions.

The mystery is good. We have Lucy Fly (Alicia Vikander) A British woman living in Japan trying to start a life away from the problems of her past life - which are explained later - But now she's involved in the disappearance of her friend Lily Bridges ( Riley Keough), who is also a foreigner.

The crux of the matter is that Lily disappeared and Lucy was the last person to see her and everything gets more complicated when it's assumed that Lily was murdered and maybe Lucy is the murderer.

To be honest that sounds pretty good but ... and here is the big flaw: That's not the center point of the plot.

It doesn't stop being intriguing because of it but as you progress through the story with all the flashbacks that begin to make sense of the narrative, you begin to understand that you have to unravel the mystery in another way and in all honesty, it wasn't that good.

At some point it remind me of Burning for the dramatic/sexual triangle that develops between the three central characters but despite having the same sobriety in tone, Earthquake Bird lacks the necessary psychological charge to get you fully into the tale and the lethargy of the plot doesn't help. No doubt this film is for viewers with enough patience, especially since the film never delivers a great plot twist or a truly stimulating moment with the exception of a key scene near the end that causes more questions than answers.

This movie is more a kind of analogy and metaphor rather than an intrigue and that ends up undermining the final result because the story was announced as something else.

I admit that it made me interested in getting the book because I feel the story - if it had no changes - will be more comprehensive and complete in a book.

Very irregular. You will not be indifferent to it but I think you will not be satisfied either.