Social media advertising for movies are meh. Most of them bill the movies at the most this, and …you ever seen, that. It’s empty and usually not what they claim. BUT this one lives up to all the claims it gives. Another thing is I love that it got 1 film festival award, Best screenplay. After watching this, It didn’t need anything else. PHENOMENAL! I only saw 7 seconds of a trailer. Demi Moore, the bold lettering and intense background music was enough for me.

This is a INTENSE visual of the danger of addiction to needing to being beautiful forever. A woman ‘Elizabeth Sparkles’, played by Demi Moore, is a famous tv exercise icon. She has been doing this for decades and is at the end of her time, from the eyes of the producer played by Dennis Quaid. He tells her that she isn’t needed anymore and she doesn’t know what to do since that’s all shes done and has made her fame from it. In the aftermath she sees an add in the paper for a new Elizabeth Sparkles, someone who is young and beautiful. She goes to the doctors for a check up and has a erie encounter with one if the assistants saying she is a perfect candidate and gives her a thumb drive. She watches it at home; intrigued and unsettled by the claims, she tossed it in the trash. After a day to think it over, she calls the number. An address, a piece of mail and she is set on a path she will regret with every fiber of her being.

I will not spoil the movie because it is, in my opinion, the best film of the year in any genre. Bold music and sounds to back the scenes. Brilliant camera work, wide angles, static, tracking and up close shots bring every emotion and thrilling event to life. The focus on the characters in action in contrast to whomever is sharing the screen is perfect.

The depiction of the intense horrors that can come of wanting more when it’s not needed. When knowing enough is enough but its to late. To think that you are in control but you have no grasp at all. The despair and helplessness. The disgusting scenes of the body transforming from extensive neglect. The movie pacts all the elements and are used in the most perfect way. There are no filler scenes even leading up to the end where I almost thought it was excessive but given the theme of the movie, it was how it needed to be. I’m sure there is an underlying message intended. It will resonate with a lot of people positively and negatively but ultimately necessary.

Have you ever felt trapped by societal expectations?” or “What do you think the consequences of obsession with youth and beauty can be?

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