BLINK TWICE 👀 (OUT OF THE THEATRE REVIEW)

all right friends I am at the amcm Burbank and we're about to watch blink twice as usual going to head into the theater watch it and then head back to the couch to do my review see you guys in a little bit we are back in the studio baby wow what an emotional heavy and just dramatic but in a good way movie Don't Blink is I first of all kudos to Zoe Kravitz I I just the directoral debut that is this movie I really feel like if I was going to have a movie to come out with this would be it just just oh so many different layers I think it's really unique just talking about the movie in itself I think it's really interesting to see the dichotomy between two movies that are heavily themed in domestic assault domestic violence sexual abuse and to see how they're marketed you know you've got uh it ends with us the Blake Lively of it all uh bring your wear your florals bring your friends it's marketed as a romcom movie and then you've got blink that very much is about abuse and about control and about hierarchies in systems and then how people have power over you in this structure and they open this film with a a disclaimer a very strong in-your-face disclaimer it's really cautioning people that if you are someone who is sensitive to this material and someone who is um currently affected by this that maybe take caution while watching this film and also gives you resources if you need it if you feel like you need it and so it's so interesting to see the way that these two films are portrayed coming out within weeks of each other and I think I don't know if this was on purpose on Zoe krait's part obviously not but it just is so unique How the Universe Works itself in mysterious ways and release these films at the same time because God I I went into to to um the film uh it ends with us thinking it was a romc com and I had read the books and I I had read them when I was younger and so to see it on screen I still had all of those romantic feelings with Atlas you know I I felt it was that way but now as a fully grown adult watching and understanding those themes and and seeing people I myself have not gone through anything uh remotely close to that but having friends who have come out the other side of domestic assault violence relationships uh you know it's it's very serious and it's not something to take so lighthearted and and carefree it is a very serious and real issue and I think that Zoe Kravitz and the entire team really did it beautifully and even seeing the way that the male leads are handling it and obviously it's difficult because you've got Channing Tatum who's on this really big Marvel high right now he just came out as Gambit and so you know it would be so easy for him to brush this movie under the rug and not give it it do and really just do a Blake Lively way of doing it of like oh let me like be Gambit and talk about this don't blink movie but he's not because he understands the serious and severity of this topic and of these issues and so it's very commendable but this film in and of itself is just gripping I felt like when I was watching it it has a lot of like heart and character and and carefreeness while at the same time really balancing the Eerie almost um big brother in nature and um uncanny valley of symmetry it feels very West Anderson in its beautiful symmetrical lines and imagery because you want it to feel very clean and very safe and we as humans really feel safe in a sterile clean environment you know you feel safe sometime mostly most people feel safe in a hospital because you know it's clean and it's orderly and everything that's in its place and you know that someone who has all of his tools lined up orderly is someone you're going to trust over someone who's just willingly throwing things around so there's a lot of symmetry that makes you feel safe and and taken care of in this film versus the way that the cinematography goes it's very close up you know it's very close up in your face and it's very quick flashes it almost made me feel like uh Shaun of the Dead in the way that it's like grabbing in quick little one shots of of items and it makes you feel uncomfy but then it'll balance back into that nice calm Serene atmosphere I think they did a a really really great job with the storyline of this you know you're you've got a girl who is longing and it it it feels very La in nature or very you know honestly it feel it I felt very close to the storyline me being a content creator who is in the know and I'm also a bartender so I I bartend as well and there's a lot of parties that I used to bartend for where it would be very celebrity heavy and it felt like you were on the other side and sometimes yeah we did sneak into the parties afterwards or like when I worked at um The Ark light movie theaters you know we'd have celebrities coming into the theater and we would wear our normal clothes afterwards just to like talk to them and let them know like hey I really appreciate you and what you do and so you know I felt that I felt her need of wanting to be on the other side and even now as a content creator you know I'm I'm a low tier content creator yeah I get to go to these premieres and I get to see all of these really famous people and some of them yeah I get to talk to and they know me and some of them remember my name but I don't feel like I'm there I don't feel like I feel like I'm just another nobody and I get that I resonate with the main character in this cuz she just wants to be a part of that world and so that need that that visceral need to want to be seen I get you know and here's Slater King this big Tech Mogul this billionaire who's giving her attention and you know it seems like he's interested in her and God The Twist of the end H The Twist she's got scars physically um and and metaphorically and and internally and spiritually she's got a lot of scars she's got a lot going with her and of course her best friend also you know they they have this opportunity to go to this island with this gajillionaire and of course you're going to say yes because you want to be part of that world and you go and you've got raspberries in the champagne there are you know beautiful outfits laid out for you they're wearing all white every single day and it wasn't culty until it was but again it's very clean it's very sterile it's very you know romantic and on this island where you're wearing all white and all the women dressed the same and just was Serene until it wasn't flash forwarding to um the end when we kind of begin to get what this movie is and we see that there's something wrong with the island her friend has disappeared and we're slowly starting to to understand that that things are just not what they are and and I feel they they had a line they would constantly ask like are you having a good time and the response would always be um yes I'm having a great time and it's that idea of like that that automated response of of yes I'm having a great time and like yeah but but I'm not you know it's you know yes around me sure everything is blissful and all my meals are paid for and and I feel like I'm having a good time I feel like I should be having a good time but I'm not there's just something that isn't right you know they they've taken away their cell phones they've put them on like a a feeding regimen and then you realize I think I'm forgetting things the metaphor that they're trying to get of the repressed memory and that's really what this movie is about it's about what we repress the trauma and how we as human beings suppress that and why it's almost like that ignorance is bliss the idea that ignorance is bliss or forgetting is a luxury you know forgetting is a be forgetting is a gift that's what it is forgetting is a gift not having the memory of something is a gift and what a dirty just way of taking something from you to you know it it's glorifying this this loss of of yourself almost and man I this movie was so good this movie was so freaking good cuz it makes you think and it makes feel gross and it makes you feel dirty and it makes you hate Channing Tatum he did a really good job um you can see that Channing Tatum in himself suffers from trauma and this is the way that not that I'm glorifying him cuz he is a monster he truly is a monster in this film and Men Are Monsters the the men in this that's going to be a sound bite but the men in this film are monsters they manipulate women they use women for their own personal and horrid gains and the idea of this film is they spread spray on this floral the flower that only blooms on this island they've made it into a perfume the women spray the perfume on themselves and it causes them to forget to forget anything no matter what happens to them on this island they will forget so they're subject to seeing their friends murdered they're subject to Grape they're subject to whatever these men desire and multiple men men therapists from off the island come in and use these women however they want because they're going to forget and the men are okay with with this the men are okay with this because so long as they forget it doesn't matter you know and and that idea of of abusers that that so long as they forget it doesn't matter so long as they don't say anything it's okay I can continue to get away with it and that's kind of the that's the metaphor that they kept emphasizing in this film is it's a luxury to forget you are better off forgetting you are a better and complete human being so long as you lose this memory and this part of yourself you are better off oh my God H it was just heavy it's a very heavy heavy film The the story and again I can't help but to relate it to it ends with us that was very florally very flowery about domestic abuse and assault and you know even at the end just having this the abuser um of Lily blossom bloom like easily accept it it's great I'm sure that that happens but that's not the the ideas of the stories that I know generally from the stories that I know the abusers don't don't think that they're doing anything wrong and it was really nice to see that also portrayed in film you know to to see someone who didn't think they were doing anything wrong and in fact you are wrong for not letting them continue this awful thing and and those women getting their Justice Jesus Oh the way the the the bride you know Quint Tarantino's the bride walking up and multiple I literally shouted as these women were about to get their Vengeance that's my Halloween costume cuz these women came in so powerful and beat literally beat these men into whatever submission and and like these women beat these men back and in their place and it was beautiful and it was needed and it was deserved and it was just it's just a righteous Vengeance that was beautiful it was great I love this film I thought it was awesome and I think that it's so beautifully placed in this film I also think um the use of snake venom and that idea of of cuz that's how that's how the women could like remember like that's that was the thing so you you sprayed the flowers you know you sprayed the flowers and you you forget you know you don't know but if you get bit or if you ingest this snake venom you remember everything and I think that's such a unique thing especially because it brings back that idea of like Adam and Eve and how they didn't know anything you know they they were innocent until the snake arrived and he had them bite the apple and so it wasn't until the snake came to being and you were bit by the snake or you ingested the snake venom and then you were able to remember everything and I think that's so interesting and I think that's such a unique parallel um to the biblical story of like oh no like the snake was bad but in this case you know everything that you forgotten was bad and it's only with the help of the snake that you're able to truly remember and be exactly who you're supposed to be I don't know I just thought that that was really a unique take and a unique side of it suffice it to say I think Zoe Kravitz did an amazing job uh on this directoral debut I think it was also really interesting for Channing Tatum coming off of Gambit to play this really gross slimy but still sexually attractive but awful terrible human being you know it's interesting to play those two characters and to make me so happy that he got his just desserts at the end it was great it was great this is a really great film and I think it's fun because i' I think I've bashed so many movies on these out of theater reviews it's nice to have one where I just I loved it I loved it I loved it I loved it it was just so good I think the middle just my only critique is I think I think the partying in the middle got a little repetitive after a while but once the second half of the movie started you really understood exactly what was happening and it just chef's kiss it was great anyway that's my Anthea review if you're someone who is okay and isn't too triggered by domestic abuse domestic violence um domestic assault or just assault in general I urge you to go watch this film I think it is amazing i' love to hear your comments and your commentary down below until then make sure you like subscribe hit all the buttons do all the things let me know your comments below and I will see you guys for the next at a theater review