Review of Nocturnal Animals (2016) by Andythemovieman 2 — 17 Apr 2017
Tom Ford is a master of style. His second outing as a filmmaker, Nocternal Animals, is more aggressive than A Single Man, both in the image and content. Everything is perfectly coiffed and airbrushed to perfection.
It would be easy to write Nocternal Animals off as the ultimate film of style over substance, but Ford's style is so aggressive that it becomes a substance unto itself. There is much that can be said about the film's parallel structure of the jilted lover's revenge vs.
the father/husband's revenge, but that is almost secondary, the violence of the narrative supporting the violence of the image. The most genius thing about Nocternal Animals is that it is the image itself, not its content, that supplies the violence.
It's an assault of the visual senses that is not easily forgotten, both painful beautiful and disturbing because of its beauty. The narrative itself is rather pedestrian, but the image of Nocternal Animals forces you to examine our connection and attraction to the stylish, the pretty and the image.
This review of Nocturnal Animals (2016) was written by Andythemovieman 2 on 17 Apr 2017.
Nocturnal Animals has generally received positive reviews.
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