34/40
Bailey seeks attention and adventure elsewhere
Plot
Bailey lives with his brother Hunter and his father Bug, who is raising them alone in a squat in north Kent. Bug doesn’t have much time to devote to them.
Edited at Fontaines DC: Bug (2024)
Barry Keoghan dropped out of Gladijator II (2024) to star in this film. I thought this was a tremendous film, I got completely lost in its layers of narrative.
The soundtrack is great and appropriate, the performances are wonderful, and the camerawork fits the context of the production in a quirky and imaginative way
There’s not a lot going on on one hand, but on the other hand, there are all sorts of little things happening that paint a story and a set of characters that are believable and realistic. For a play where there’s almost always a hint of danger and violence, it manages to navigate those waters while moving towards a very uplifting conclusion that had me going home smiling and singing to myself (I haven’t really liked anything by Fontaines D.C., but the use of their music might have changed that and I detest Coldplay and Andrea Arnold even made me smile along with this part and is used to spur a frog on).
It’s worth a few hours of your time
Even the unexpected twist, as bizarre as it is, doesn’t shake things up in the way you might think.
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