Queen of Earth
Two women retreat to a lake house to get a break from the pressures of the outside world, only to realize how disconnected from each other they have become, allowing their suspicions to bleed into reality.
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- Cast:
- Elisabeth Moss , Katherine Waterston , Patrick Fugit , Kentucker Audley , Keith Poulson , Kate Lyn Sheil
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The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.
A movie by awful Williamsburg trustfunders about awful Williamsburg trustfunders. I'm sure this has some appeal in Williamsburg among the trustfunders but for we mere mortals not in a movie about ourselves starring ourselves it's just dull. This doesn't even rise to the level of ciin-ee-mah school bad. Everything about this is terrible; the characters, the timing, the pacing. Even the camerawork is bad, it's actually out of focus some of the time. But the two really awful things about this are the dialog and the score. The 'dialog' isn't dialog in the classic sense. It's one character at a time spouting long long angry insane monologues. The characters don't interact so much as wait their turn on stage to spout angry nonsense. And the score. Oh it's priceless. It's two piano keys repeated over and over and over and over and over and over. Two notes. Two.The writer director is supposed to be some auteur some genius some wizard of the inner dialog of self. But he's not. The emperor has no clothes. If he makes another movie it's only because his dad knows a hedge fund guy who's kid also lives in Williamsberg
I Don't understand why you do the effort as a filmmaker to look deep and important,when you actually have nothing to talk about,the movie is full of very long empty boring dialogues and that's it,acting is poor,directing is poorer.Personally I get offended when a movie pretends to look deep when actually it is so shallow and empty.
Films are made for many purposes and I don't know what this one is about. They say it is a psychological-thriller, but yes, there is some psychology in it, but definitely no thriller, just a boring drama which means a character study material. The entire film was shot in a lake house and occasionally its surrounding area. There is no story in it, just the characters and they're being themselves that narrated in the days basis for a week, but those days were from the random years without a clear picture of what date, month or the year.There is lots of close up shots like it pushes you back from your seat suppose if you are leaning towards the front. The cinematography was what I felt uncomfortable, but overall not bad. I think the actors were good, both Katherine Waterston and Elisabeth Moss, just for this film because I've seen them in the better roles.Low budget and limited cast film, as well as short but not sweet as I anticipated. So I don't think everybody would enjoy it, I don't know who is the target audience, but I'm sure it will reach them who are going to defend it from people like me. Those who are not seen it, but want to, I only advise them to be careful while choosing it.3/10
Queen of Earth follows a woman who, after her boyfriend breaks up with her, goes on a trip to a somewhat secluded cabin with her best friend, and ultimately they run into some troubles in their relationship.I liked how this movie was shot. There were some pretty lengthy shots that were just people talking, meaning that they had to memorize a lengthy set of lines and recite them while maintaining their character. Moreover, some of the shots were just kind of pretty to look at. There were some cool ideas. The way it tried to use symbolism and portray the main character's ongoing conflict was kind of cool, but unfortunately it didn't work out. The biggest thing that really brought this movie down was the dialogue. I've seen bad dialogue and writing before, but this tops all of those. Characters often embark on long lectures and speeches that sound like they were both pre-written and practiced. Not only was the dialogue unrealistic, but the meaning of it was also awful. The two main characters, who are supposedly best friends, spend the entire movie elaborately telling each other why they are each horrible people. And they definitely aren't being sarcastic. How are these people still friends? Even in their flashback conversations they just trash-talk each other. Now you could argue that maybe I'm pointing out only the bad conversations they have, but they never say anything nice to each other. I recall one line from the entire movie where one of them says that she likes the other. That line was immediately followed by hate, however. So the movie never actually shows us that the two main characters are best friends despite stating that they are. Overall Queen of Earth is a bad movie. Sure, there were some cool ideas and pretty shots, but the dialogue is so incredibly awful that it's hard to enjoy really any part of this movie. In the end I definitely wouldn't recommend this movie.