bones and all

 People.... people who eat people.... are the unluckiest people in the worrrrld... Barbra Streisand might have sung. And she'd be right. These are not lucky people.

I saw "Bone and All" tonight. I went in with an open mind and low expectations. I didn't like the movie. There were a couple moments that were good. The very first scene where you learn that the main character, played by Taylor Russell (picture above, left), is an "eater", or cannibal, is intense and shocking in a good horror movie kind of way.

But then the plot jumps all over the place. The one thing I can say is that the acting, for the most part, is good. Besides Russell, Timothee Chalamet and Mark Rylance play simultaneously disturbing and sympathetic characters. I really liked Mark Rylance in The Outfit, which I recommend. And Chalamet was  great in Dune. But I feel like their talents were wasted in this strange and gratuitously disturbing movie.

And when I say gratuitous, I mean just that. There are pictures of naked women on the wall of this bedroom. They're not part of the plot. And the camera stays on them for too long. There is a pretty explicit gay sex scene and a murder in the middle of it. It's over the top disturbing and unnecessary. I feel like this could have been a much better movie if some of the shock scenes were toned down or removed and a little more of the possibilities of their situation had been explored. The movie tries to make you care about the characters by playing REALLY cheesy John Greene movie music while they talk about their feelings. About being cannibals. And WOW there are WAY more cannibals in the US than I realized. They just keep finding more and more of them.

Anyway, I don't recommend it. You might watch it and like it, but don't see it on my account. It's rated R for intense violence, language, nudity, and sex.

PS (and possible spoiler) - the TITLE of the movie is explained during the film, but it seems to be setting something up that never happens. Very anticlimactic.