When crafting a story, there is always that feeling that
there is more that can be done with the premise. No story is capable of
exploring every single facet that it brushes against, and when dealing with
something as intensive as cinema, the smaller details require as much
preparation as humanly possible.
I’ve covered a few movies in the past that felt like they
were trying to make statements on anything and everything connected to its core
idea, but movies feeling cluttered doesn’t get a gut rejection from me as a
critic. All I really ask is that, if something is going to be brought up
on-screen, it should at least be given enough weight that it makes sense why it
is being highlighted. For a good example of this, there’s last year’s Suspiria,
which not only dealt with a whole slew of different ideas but managed to give
all of them room to breathe so it all made sense. For a bad example of this, we
have today’s Chloë Grace-Moretz feature.
