Five. Ten. Sliding Scale. These are the terms folks in Awards blogosphere use to describe the Academy’s choices for Best Picture. The Academy recently had a meeting to decide upon what they want to go with and whatever they pick is sure to cause much discussion. I’ve been thinking about the concept of Best Picture a lot since the Academy expanded the field then went to this bs sliding scale.
I have tried to craft an interesting opening paragraph for this review of It Follows for a long time. I’ve gone through about 10 opening sentences and around 5 combinations of commentary afterwards. My brain is as scrambled trying to figure out how to write about this movie as it was trying to keep up with the film itself. The only real thing I can attempt to formulate about It Follows is that while it provides much to discuss after seeing it, most of that conversation will be centered around anger at the film’s lack of conviction, missed opportunities and over the top antics that ruin an interesting premise.
Here we are again with the season being over, we almost witnessed a home birth…saw a couple of confessions from some of our characters and also felt that finally these girls made some decisions for the better good, because I have often felt while watching this season that they weren’t going anywhere or did the same repetitive things while the guys are the ones that have changed and also where was Elijah?