American Honey
A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits.
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- Cast:
- Sasha Lane , Shia LaBeouf , Riley Keough , McCaul Lombardi , Arielle Holmes , Veronica Ezell , Isaiah Stone
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Just so...so bad
I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.
This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows
It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.
I found this film to be severely lacking in real substance. All very superficial and even pathetic to an extent.
A very typical work of an absolutely talentless cinema/drama sophomore hipster who has no insight nor any idea about himself or life in general but wants to shoot movies. This movie doesn't say anything that no moron with a mediocre mind doesn't know since he or she was 10 years old. Such a waste of money for the producer company and a waste of time for the viewer. It was so bad, I feel like not seeing any films for some time. It is like food poisoning only worse because you can't throw up. Film poisoning. It's an insult to all the movies that has 7 and less rating on imdb. Google says comedy for this film. It's true. Not its genre but this movie and its rating on imdb is a joke. If your son or daughter decides to follow their passion or dreams of becoming something that they are absolutely talentless at make them sit and watch this movie for two and a half hours. Hopefully they will understand unlike the guy who decided to become a writer instead of anything else and made this film. If you liked this movie please neglect everything I said. You're hopeless.
I can summarize the film in two words: Simply Marvelous What a pleasure. It gives me hope for good cinema to come.Some say, too long. I say, "...could have watched for two more hours." How about a a second serving? I would like to see what happens.Bravo!
Andrea Arnold's debut movie, Red Road, is a shocking social documentary style movie that is breathtaking in its boldness and unflinching in its depiction of a Glasgow underclass that most of us do not know. American Honey does a similar job of depicting an American class that's seldom caught on screen and was cast mainly from the street.It too is pretty unflinching in its depiction of drug taking, young sex and the unwinding of an American dream; of sorts.It's a road movie that follows the fortunes of 18 year old abused runaway, Star, and her relationship with a group of young magazine salespeople touring the country looking for door to door sales in a variety of American housing schemes (both rich and poor).It leads to an episodic series of events that range from amusing to totally horrific.Arnold's style is uncompromising. It, like Grand Budapest Hotel, is shot in square (Instagram) format which gives it a certain contemporaneity and the photography, that is mainly cinema verite, occasionally bursts into beautiful, glorious, rich warmth such that it takes your breath away.It's a compelling performance by Sasha Lane as Star and Shia LaBeouf also impresses as her mentor and, later, lover. Riley Keogh is also excellent as the aloof, slightly terrifying team leader who lives a separate life of relative luxury while her band of stoner sales people rough it in hostels.But it's an uncomfortable ride that rewards your patience.