Those who have watched "Ready Player One" are sure to be deeply impressed by the cool heroine Samantha/Artemis in the film. She is Olivia Cook, in reality, she is sweet and cute, but she often plays some weird characters in film and television works. Of course, the effects are not bad, and they can be called "plastic surgery"-like acting. Today I recommend a thriller starring her -
"Good Breed Animals" 2017
Producer: Rachel Griffiths
Screenwriters: Andrew Knight / Elise McCready
Starring: Teresa Palmer / Sam Neil
豆瓣 6.4 IMDb 6.6
The film was released to critical acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2017, and has since been nominated for seven awards at seven film festivals.
Reviews are highly polarized, with those who like it saying, "razor blades covered in a layer of chocolate," with a bloody sweetness. "Empathetic, satirical of the sad modern life". People who hate it say: "The princess is sick and can't see it at all", "Completely rely on dialogue to advance the plot, and there is nothing to see".
It can be seen from the poster that this film has two heroines, in addition to Olivia Cook, the other is Anya Taylor Joy. is a proper suspense thriller professional, who won the Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Actor of the Year for "The Witch"; played a rebellious girl in "Split", with a very high degree of completion.
These two thriller heroines, one is the domineering queen Fan, and the other is a cute pet school girl Fan, but in "Breeding Animals", the roles of the two are completely opposite.
Anya plays a glamorous daughter in the film, but in fact she is a depressed, cowardly, and desperate depressed girl who dare not speak out: Lily. Cook, on the other hand, plays Amanda, a high-IQ and ruthless rich girl with an antisocial personality and lack of empathy.
And the whole story is not complicated
- I want to kill my father, can you help me take the blame?
- No problem, it's not interesting for me to live anyway.
Therefore, no matter from the perspective of character design or plot, the word "perverted" is enough to summarize.
After Lily's father died, her mother took her to remarry a wealthy man. They live in palace-like villas, luxuriously furnished to the point of blinding the eyes. Although Lily tries to be kind and friendly to her stepfather, she actually doesn't like him at every turn.
Her stepfather, in addition to riding his bike all day at home to work out and making a lot of noise, is also keen to torment Lily. First, give her orders at will. Let Lily drive Amanda home in the middle of the night, ignoring the safety of the two people. Second, to deprive her of the right to choose. Mark decided to send her to Brookmore, where he recruited "problematic" girls, and paid a deposit in advance. When Lily objected, he said, "It's not a conversation, it's a notice."
Some people say that the stepfather is not making trouble unreasonably, but is doing the right thing for heaven, and he specializes in cleaning up the hypocritical, selfish, and hypocritical eldest lady Lili. But for Lily, who is in adolescence, Mark's words are like a knife, every word is heart-wrenching, and it hits the nail on the head, poking her into a thousand holes and can't bear to look at her directly.
And Amanda is Lily's childhood friend, and when the two meet again after many years, she can see at a glance that Lily hates her stepfather. After being poked in the center, Lily expressed her disgust with Amanda. Amanda behaved very calmly, and even proposed to Lily: since she hates her stepfather, she can kill him.
So they began to plot a murder to kill their stepfather, who had been playing a repressive and totalitarian role...... This is not a typical murder plot, and the whole murder is full of eccentricity, nonchalance, and a hint of subtle humor.
In the process of this conspiracy, the two girls finally have an equal identity. Lily no longer puts herself in a position of superiority. But it wasn't until the end came that the audience realized that they seemed to have fallen into the trap preset by the director. Whose disguise is all this?
Was this messy murder a long-planned plan or was it really improvised? and the core of the film: in the relationship between the two, who is strong and weak, and who is the leader? Even, who is a mentally ill person who lacks the ability to empathize?
The film is a bit weird, whether it's the soundtrack, the lines, or the story itself. It's unique and not full of slots, which can be said to be a pleasant surprise.