![]() I now have to go and open my return Netflix envelope and re-watch myself. Try the movie a second time with these points in mind. I watched Vox Lux last night and spent the night reading all the discussions about the movie and I haven’t seen anything like this so here are my thoughts. The moment stays between them and we still view the concert as it really is. But the movie doesn't let the lyrics get changed from I to We. It was a moment of conversation between them after all the crazy things that had happened that day. So then the performance shouldn't be how good it looks to us, but how good it is for Celeste and her sister and daughter. That was her providing for her daughter and family and everyone who works for her. She knows her daughter is in the crowd and wants to show her that she's not a total mess and works hard at her job. Being on stage and preforming was Celeste being Celeste, actually having control and doing everything right. That made me think of art and the artist and the people who view the art. So the movie gave us a real look at Celeste at two extreme moments of her life.Īnd also it has to do with the thing that was mentioned at the start of her career, where they had her change a lyric from I to We, because her pain now belonged to everyone else. After years and years of her songs people might have a nostalgic view of her that is a layer over their new experiences with her, but we didn't see the slow decline in quality, we went straight from best to worse. We didn't hear any of her music except her breakout songs and the new album. She said at the diner that her music has been getting worse but she's been selling better than ever. There were so many other scenes that looked amazingly fantastic, and then the big performance at the end was shot oddly and didn't pull the viewer in like other things did. This movie makes you uncomfortable.įor everyone else who has seen it so far, what do you think? I’m just trying to gather other reactions to bounce off mine because I’m having trouble finding any. It really gets you to think, but in ways and on topics that are really hard to face. With all this said, I almost didn’t enjoy myself watching this movie. The camera work is pretty amazing so many long takes that either have hidden cuts or they’re really one long take, specifically in Act II. ![]() Natalie Portman’s acting is a tour de force and I’m completely floored and in awe with her performance. When the credits were rolling some people started laughing and saying “well that was.not what I wanted”. I had a few walkouts in my showing, my guess because people were expecting a different take on A Star Is Born, which this definitely is not that. I definitely don’t think this will play well with mainstream audiences. It’s a dark character study, and while it’s told in a traditional three-act structure, each of the acts (especially the last two) are anything but traditional. This is very different from how it was marketed and VERY disturbing, unique, and many other words. ![]() After a discussion about their very different approaches they each took towards playing the same character, I brought up the end reveal and inquired about its impact on their performances.I just got out of the movie. ![]() The ending of Vox Lux was one that kept my brain spinning for a while after I walked out of the film, and my curiosity continued until the next day when I had the pleasure of sitting down with Natalie Portman and co-star Raffey Cassidy to talk about their work on the movie. You want to see her devilish sides for sure. I think it's sort of like what Raffey was just talking about, about it being a blessing and a curse when you know that the thing that kind of birthed you was kind of not innocent, like luck There's a Faust kind of, you know, story. Knowing this forces you to reexamine everything that you think you know about Celeste, but what makes it even more interesting is that it was a key detail that Natalie Portman kept in the back of her mind throughout her entire performance: Specifically, we learn that Celeste's success and career as a singer was a result of not amazing talent and/or fortuitous timing, but instead a literal deal with the devil she made during her near-death experience. Brady Corbet's Vox Lux has a legit bombshell ending, dropping a reveal that forces you to rethink everything you just watched.
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