I’m a fan of media that reveals information to the person consuming it by showing rather than telling. Putting the pieces of information together about what you’re being presented can be really fun and make an otherwise relatively simple plot way more interesting. Strange Darling accomplishes this very well. It cheats a little by giving you the “chapters” of the movie out of order, so you end up jumping around a little in time, but it makes for some really awesome scenes that keep you from getting too comfortable in your understanding of what is happening.
I don’t want to talk about it too much because It’s best to go in blind. I will say that I really enjoyed how they presented everything around the main characters. Everything is shot brilliantly and it feels like a lot of care was put into everything on screen, almost Kubrick-esque (but hopefully without the abuse). Fun side note, Giovanni Ribisi made his debut as a Cinematographer in this film. Neat
I think I would have given this one a 5, but there’s a lot of slow moving dialogue building scenes that just aren’t as charming as I think they’re meant to be, and cause a little bit of a drag. Otherwise, though, solid serial killer thriller.
4 out of 5