Review of Red Rocket (2021) by Mak234 — 19 Mar 2022
This is a great film and definitely worth watching twice. The relationship between a seventeen-year-old girl and an aged adult film actor is a focal point of the story and puts the morals and ethics of the main protagonist in question. However, the movie never tells us how to feel about it, conversely, it lets us decide and judge every situation on our own. Mainly because of the absence of a standard soundtrack that would evoke a mood and point out his true motivations. It also evokes questions on the political situations in 2016.
The director Sean Baker does a phenomenal job by playing with contrasts present in the quite bright and positively saturated donut shop and Bree's and Simons's house that predominates with washed and muddy colors. The contrast is also present in prosperous industrial landscapes and impoverished characters who sell their bodies and drugs for a little bit of cash. And lastly, with "Bye Bye Bye" song that doesn't belong to the present day and serves as a Simons's memory of "good old days".
The end leaves us to question not only Simon's character and his values but also his cognitive state. It raises the questions of what is real and what can be seen as his hallucinations.
This review of Red Rocket (2021) was written by Mak234 on 19 Mar 2022.
Red Rocket has generally received positive reviews.
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