Review of The Florida Project (2017) by Denfromeurope — 24 Nov 2021

Let me bring some real world into this Hollywood portrayal of it.

When I was about 23, me, a college finance graduate from a suburban home got to live in a motel in florida for a couple of months, and hang around the people around this socioeconomic class for a year. It was interesting in a sense that I've met so many people doing strange things - a guy who wrestled alligators at shows (he was my age, his girlfriend while hot was 30), a guy with two parrots who would walk the beach and collect money from tourists for photos, a trio of Brazilian girls who came to learn english, a family from Argentina with two girls being single moms. A polish guy who got a prostitute for his birthday, we were partying before and he was showing me how to choke out a person on me. I blacked out. I went out and when we came back we saw a black pimp sitting on top of him smashing his face in. He ran off seeing us, saying 'I'm gonna get my gun'. Next morning I had to crawl through the window into his room because the owner's daughter was too scared to, to check if he was alive. There aren't many worse feelings than walking through a dark apartment expecting to find a body. Guy was drunk and sleeping and when I asked if he was ok he said 'yeah!' apparently he was too drunk the night before to get it up so he wanted to not pay.

This movie is a cliche. Chars are defined and stereotypical. (why can't the friend become more than a waitress? Why is the maintanence man not tougher, he KNOWS these people are **** ups, and he is reminded monthly- my guy would come looking for rent with no remorse, and so did the other landlords I knew) And Americans are still too entitled - this life in america DOES suck, but objectively for a foreigner from a hard life country this life would be a great opportunity.