okay look, i watched the movie yesterday and i’ve got to say i wasn’t completely disappointed. the storyline itself (while full of plotholes) was enjoyable to an extent.

spoilers further down

the acting by florence was phenomenal (but i expected nothing less).

olivia’s part (imo, without my prejudice against her) was way too involved, especially with how her part ended???

kiki and asif should have been seen more. kiki’s character, margaret, was the literal catalyst of the fucking film and she had maybe six or so scenes in total.

as for chris pine, he did a rlly great job of playing a creepy ass man. and that’s all i’ll say.

and harry? well, it wasn’t as bad as i thought it was going to but i’m fully convinced that they had to rewrite his part british bc he couldn’t drop the accent for long enough. (as evidenced by an attempted american accent in one of the films scenes). i will say tho, im not going to be judging harry too hard, he’s still a new actor and i think the PR for (and general drama surrounding) this movie fucked up his chances of doing rlly well. i mean harry was the man that christopher nolan SPECIFICALLY wanted to be in his film dunkirk. so i still have hope for harry, maybe psychological thrillers just aren’t his bag.

also, olivia wilde trying to sell this show (before it’s release) as like an ode to female pleasure is utter bullshit. there are two or three ‘sex’ scenes in the movie and with how it ends and what happens later on… they fall more into dub con content than anything else. ode to female pleasure my fucking ass.

like i said, i think that the general drama surrounding the film (harry/olivia relationship? olivia/shia debacle? olivia/florence rivalry?) rlly fucked the public’s reception of the film itself.

too many unanswered questions and an ending that left me unsatisfied.

slight spoilers ahead

from a literary and writing standpoint, i think that they introduced the conflict too early. you’re like ten or fifteen minutes into the film and alice (florence) is already having flashbacks to her real life.

i get that time is of the essence in movies like this, but you also have to earn what you’re trying to sell to your audience.

yet another reason why i’m so mad that they didn’t include margaret (kiki) more. she’s the first one to question what the victory project is rlly doing and they brush her off like she doesn’t actually matter.

bunny’s (olivia) ending fucked me up. the whole movie bunny has been telling alice that basically alice needs to get her shit together. “you sound like margaret” “you’re acting like margaret”—WELL WE WOULDNT FUCKING KNOW BC YOU CUT MARGARET FROM THE FUCKING FILM OLIVIA— when come to find out bunny is the only woman awake in all of victory bc “her kids are here” which is first off, a major fucking unexplained plot hole. did she wake up like alice has been? did her husband tell her abt the victory project immediately? did she willing submit to the victory project? DOES FRANK (chris) KNOW THAT SHES AWAKE?

and i know that some ppl won’t like this but jack (harry) looks like a backwater redneck in the reality scene at the end. like when he’s laying down beside alice to go back into the victory project… straight hillbilly bob on the bed— i can’t y’all

anyway, i’ll probably think of more thoughts as i process this movie but all in all, i wouldn’t not recommend it but i wouldn’t not not recommend it. like i’ve seen it once but it not going to go out of my way to watch it again

But in your opinion did Olivia’s character fill in or does it look added and wrong? Like I read she wrote herself into the movie?

And do you think she has more screen time than she should compared to Chris and Gemma?

Her character gets almost the same amount of screentime as Florence’s. It’s truly bizarre. There’s a scene where she body tackles Nick Kroll and it is just plain hilarious that the twig made herself into the big hero who saves Alice. To *me*, it would’ve been way more interesting had Harry’s character been the one to go against it all and help her break free. But they went the obvious route and it fell flat to me.