Review of Raw (2017) by Nastolfi — 05 Oct 2017

Well, first of all, I don't understand why anyone would give this movie ZERO stars. I mean, it's definitely not for everyone, but it's a movie about cannibalism, so how can you not expect it to be a little gross? I mean, the acting and film style warrant at least a few stars on their own, so even if you didn't like the content, it seems unfair to give it a zero!

That being said, I LOVED this movie. It just came out on Netflix and I watched it last night, and them immediately watched it again. Like some others, I had read that people had fainted during the screening, and I took it on as a personal challenge to see what the deal was. I was also a little disappointed that there was nothing that made me feel light-headed, but was really impressed with the movie as a whole.

I thought the acting and choice of music were spot-on, and I really believed the changes that Justine was going through. I loved/hated the part when she is throwing up the hair. I hated it because she was only shown in one brief scene chewing on the ends of her hair, due to nerves, and then in the next scene she is shown vomiting up a LOT of long strands of hair. Where did it come from? Wouldn't she have had some bald/thinned spots if all that hair was missing? And then it's not mentioned or shown again for the rest of the movie. That kind of bugged me. But I loved it because it looked so real. I felt like it was happening to me and at one point I actually put my hand in my mouth to pull the hair out lol. Other than that, I thought this was very well done. The pacing was perfect, the music was perfect, and the acting was great. I liked the plot and thought the sibling/coming of age themes were done well. The sister fight was pretty amazing as well.