Starry Eyes
Synopsis
A woman named Sarah (Alex Essoe) is having her breakdown recently due abstinence of way to her dream become an artist. Her auditions mostly did not go well, she cannot force a happy dumb face in her part time as waitress in family restaurant, and most of her flatmates are dissing her obsessions. With a strange audition happened to a working title called The Silver Scream, an overjoyed Sarah starts experiencing hallucinations, towards a risky step into popularity, no matter what it takes.
RATING
R (obviously, with naked demon shots and blood fest at the end)
What's so good about this thing?
Hmm, I could not really tell the difference from this movie and Black Swan. Both are telling a girl with delusion of fame and spotlight frenzy, then taking a extreme route to compensate the blurry eyes, they cannot really see a reality anymore. This movie takes a different route of extremeness, by slowly making us seeing a girl really clinging on her dream transforms into a maniac. I could not tell how cliche it is when all of the crazy things happened due her covenant with some kind of satanic ritual. But, Sarah is not your favorite movie heroine with all talks about she should fight the evil inside her or else. Sarah is basically a mentally unstable girl who experienced an edge of her sanity.
Showing only a bad side of a woman, seemingly unnerving for anybody who choked by Hollywood Horror every year. This movie tells different parts of human, when she cannot longer keep her sanity because her eyes already filled, stabbed, knocked, by stars, by a single weird chance, come upon her. Sarah, kindly sacrifices herself for us to remember and stay focus, that although we have capability and control to do our good or bad, in reality, sometimes your eyes are too blurry to see and only takes what it looks. It looks good and prominent, just because of your single intention, which matters once you failed or success. Is this achievement is one do I really need or dream?
Actually I am not really fond of satanic cult having party over one's sanity or a cult discovered and kills everyone. Satanic cult mostly used in movies as key twist, or the story. More or less, if you use the factor, the plot will be same enough. However, this movie just take the cult as reason and the ending scene. It is not really necessary to watch, if you rather think about Sarah's obsession and your obsession in your reality. But, if you still want to judge the plot, fine then. The cult obviously is a stranger in the plot. Sarah's obsession may granted if you do the cult wants, but it is makes Sarah's insanity-psycho-philosophy from my thought, become really simple. Simply, the cult does it all and Sarah has just pulling her nerves to continuing the blood fest. But you can still enjoy the movie.
When we see our potentials to do good or bad things, sometimes we concerned about the judgement about both. What is good and bad? What if we stay pragmatic about the issue, is it bad or good? Do we have to be radical about things we concern? Do we have to kill for a never-accomplished dream? Those questions may embark after seeing this movie. Starry Eyes not only perfectly reflects what it takes and what it needs (hair pulling for example) to be an artist, but perfectly reflects what is consequences persuade a dream insanely.
For technical aspects, most of it can be categorized as usual. I like the gloomy tone used here, makes you feel crazy as well, and I like how the scenes are not really pushing that hard to try showing that "I am a smart movie". They stick with the formula, they lock themselves in a straight gang, and they commit to it until the it-is-different-than-scenes-before-and-I-do-not-really-like-it ending scene. It is a good movie for those who want to complicate their thoughts in much more philosophical side, and also for those in urge to seeing something different than what's given by Hollywood Horror lately. To conclude, maybe it is better to watch by yourself and judge for yours. But, I doubt those who often seeing exploited horrors like Conjuring will like this one.
Showing only a bad side of a woman, seemingly unnerving for anybody who choked by Hollywood Horror every year. This movie tells different parts of human, when she cannot longer keep her sanity because her eyes already filled, stabbed, knocked, by stars, by a single weird chance, come upon her. Sarah, kindly sacrifices herself for us to remember and stay focus, that although we have capability and control to do our good or bad, in reality, sometimes your eyes are too blurry to see and only takes what it looks. It looks good and prominent, just because of your single intention, which matters once you failed or success. Is this achievement is one do I really need or dream?
Actually I am not really fond of satanic cult having party over one's sanity or a cult discovered and kills everyone. Satanic cult mostly used in movies as key twist, or the story. More or less, if you use the factor, the plot will be same enough. However, this movie just take the cult as reason and the ending scene. It is not really necessary to watch, if you rather think about Sarah's obsession and your obsession in your reality. But, if you still want to judge the plot, fine then. The cult obviously is a stranger in the plot. Sarah's obsession may granted if you do the cult wants, but it is makes Sarah's insanity-psycho-philosophy from my thought, become really simple. Simply, the cult does it all and Sarah has just pulling her nerves to continuing the blood fest. But you can still enjoy the movie.
When we see our potentials to do good or bad things, sometimes we concerned about the judgement about both. What is good and bad? What if we stay pragmatic about the issue, is it bad or good? Do we have to be radical about things we concern? Do we have to kill for a never-accomplished dream? Those questions may embark after seeing this movie. Starry Eyes not only perfectly reflects what it takes and what it needs (hair pulling for example) to be an artist, but perfectly reflects what is consequences persuade a dream insanely.
For technical aspects, most of it can be categorized as usual. I like the gloomy tone used here, makes you feel crazy as well, and I like how the scenes are not really pushing that hard to try showing that "I am a smart movie". They stick with the formula, they lock themselves in a straight gang, and they commit to it until the it-is-different-than-scenes-before-and-I-do-not-really-like-it ending scene. It is a good movie for those who want to complicate their thoughts in much more philosophical side, and also for those in urge to seeing something different than what's given by Hollywood Horror lately. To conclude, maybe it is better to watch by yourself and judge for yours. But, I doubt those who often seeing exploited horrors like Conjuring will like this one.
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