ArloDinkin

I walked out about three-quarters in. It's rare for me to bail on a movie. But I was bored. I was not caring about how things might turn out. For better or worse, our own lives are much more interesting (other than going to a movie in the afternoon on a Friday). However, my own mind had done a Freudian slip. I read the name of the movie as "Emily the Killer". Maybe that had something to do with why I impulsively decided to go see it. Looking back, I now realize why the ticket vendor gave me a strange look when I asked for one ticket to "Emily the Killer". Now I second guess myself wondering if I should have stayed for the ending to see if she ever kills anyone. But, I did not care about the ending, because the characters gave me no reason to care. Up to my departure, the movie was a peek inside the lives of some random ordinary strangers. They have the same kind of mundane lives that make us want to move somewhere nice like Costa Rica or Denmark. On the bright side, I might recommend it to a teenager as a cautionary documentary about the importance of keeping a clean record. And above all else kids, don't go get into student loan debt for an art degree. Especially if you suspect that you have no artistic talent.

So annoying that I could not finish it. The characters are insufferable. The men all look alike, with slightly different personalities. That makes it hard to tell them apart. They initially appear as if they're smart, maybe well educated people, but then everything they say and do is moronic. Glad I didn't stick around for the ending.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

This is by far the best movie of 2021. It is a time capsule of the insanity that we live in every single day. The only reason it has bad critic reviews is that those critics are part of the media and social networks that the movie so brilliantly mocks. This movie says what needs saying, we are a ridiculously stupid species that may very well be on the brink of extinction.