Braid

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I often say things out loud to nobody in particular, like "Hey, why don't they make movies like Daughters of Darkness or Kill, Baby, Kill any more?" The truth is, someone just did. Somehow, Mitzi Peirone, in the first feature-length movie she ever wrote or directed, tapped into the psychosexual DNA of the woman on the verge of madness and the supernatural genre, all while filtering pieces through psychedelia, the giallo, the art film and who knows what else. Throw in the fact that this movie was the first one to ever be fully financed through a cryptocurrency equity crowdsale - something and I do not even pretend to understand - and you have the makings of something big. So a warning: if you haven't seen the film, the only way that I can talk about it is by really going deep into what happens in the film. The funny thing is, there are so many ways to view this movie - and what's real and what isn't - that I'm not even sure what I'm writing are spoilers. This movie could be about any - or all - of these things: Two college students (they may also be reality stars and/or internet dom * queens) run from a drug bust, losing $80,000 worth of drugs, which they had purchased with their college tuition. To get the money back, they decide to rob the developmentally challenged friend that they once pushed out of a treehouse, causing her to lose the ability to have children. However, she was always insane and the closer she has grown to adulthood, the further away she has moved from sanity. Can they get the money, get out and not be trapped by her game? Three young girls have been playing the same game for so long that they could be anywhere from 8 years old to 20 years old to senior citizens, constantly replaying the same elaborately staged game. My theory here is bolstered by the taunts of Tiresias The Omniscient Homeless Man - named for the blind prophet of Apollo who was both clairvoyant and forced to be a woman for seven years - who yells, "You old witches always come back here." A druggy kaleidoscopic run through a playground that makes little to no sense, suffused with neon glows, flashes backward and forward, with plenty of noise and no small amount of pretentiousness. I mean, Variety went as far as to say that this movie is "so void of any substance beyond the pretentiously pictorial that one suspects (the director's) real calling is in music videos or advertising." All of the above. Potentially more. Imagine Grey Gardens with more sex and much more violence, as directed by a mixture of Jodorowsky and Jean Rollin, with lighting by Nicolas Winding Refn doing dabs with Mario Bava. Shot in Alders Manor in Yonkers, NY (the one-time 20th century Renaissance Revival home of mining magnate W.B. Thompson that is available to rent for parties), this movie is technically about childhood friends gone to seed Petula (Imogen Waterhouse, Nocturnal Animals) and Tilda (Sarah Hay, Black Swan and a one-time attendee of the video You're Invited to Mary-Kate & Ashley's Ballet Party, no less) who are attempting to steal from their long-lost friend Daphne Peters (Madeline Brewer, The Handmaid's Tale, Orange Is the New Black). The only real person - then again, maybe not - who comes into their lives is Detective Siegel, the cop who questioned Petula and Tilda after Daphne fell - was pushed? - from a treehouse all those years ago. Now, the game begins again: Daphne is the mother, Petula is the doctor and Tilda is the daughter who is the patient. There are three rules: 1. Everyone plays. 2. No outsiders allowed. 3. Nobody leaves. I have a lot of high faluting ideas about what it all means, but they're probably all wrong. You'll probably feel the same way after you watch it. I'd be interested in your take, though.

There was no plot! I turned it on and the first 30 min or so it seemed lie it was going to be decent. But the whole move changed to where i was like ( did I fall asleep and a new movie's on). If they'd have kept it with the original way the script developed and not have turned it into some weird supernatural or hey I'm high or hey ok I just cannot write a script. I wanted so hard to be clever but in the end insulted the intelligence of my viewers and maybe myself but hey maybe it was the intelligence of the writers etc that was lacking. I'm editing to add um reviewers please don't comment on things you know nothing about Suspiria was released in 1977! It was a remake. So old school horror? Lol. And the the other reviewer who said there was a plot because it was listed on the page. Hahaha. That doesn't make it so!

The cast was great unfortunately the production design degrade the vision the script writer had in mind.

I really thought it was going to come together in the end..there is usually suspense built into a plot and you have to remember bits and pieces so when the story starts coming together your questions are answered. For the most part of the movie I enjoyed it. I thought it was quirky I thought it was a bit out there but it did not bore me. What I do not like is, spending my time watching a movie only to have nothing explained AND for it to get even more confusing when it comes to the end. There was literally no explanation for anything concerning the game concerning the girls concerning the cop their childhood The Treehouse it goes on and on and then at the very end who the hell is that at the sink? If anyone can tell me what happened in the end I would be extremely happy.... because /spoiler alert/ it appeared as every girl took her own life. So I could not give it anything higher than a five and I would not recommend watching it unless you literally have time to kill.

Slightly hard to summarize this movie and my reaction on that because the picture includes lots of moments, some of them are examples of what I do not like in horror movies and other show what am I waiting from a good horror and thriller. So the movie is filled with original beautiful scenes which could be better though - for example, it seems to me that actors were not precisely selected for performing their roles in this movie. Also I have been waiting for some bright scenes like the one shown in trailer, however, it was the only scene in the whole movie drawn in such eccentric colors. Generally, all the scenes which could be marked as good, were shown in trailer and it was very sad that besides these ones I've pointed out just opening and closing titles. What I've trully unliked - that is elements of plot and thread of story in common. It seems too unnatural, banal and uninteresting so you continue to watch the movie not because you are interested in action happening in front of you, but because of faith in the better moments and a good ending which will present and explain everything in the way which will make you excited and amazed. Unfortunately, the story behind movie keeps the taken shape from the beginning to the end - it is not able to provide user with some shocking methods nor twists. Finally, I could also accent that this movie could be compared to another one, which have been shown few months earlier - I mean, 'Suspiria', and as a result of such comparision we could derive some similar things telling us that genre of horror, which is trying to develop itself, just wastes it's power. Both movies, Braid and Suspiria have very weak plot, they are too focused on a particular thing - in Suspiria it was the atmosphere of secret, flying in the air of the old building, and in the case of Braid it is the atmosphere of madness which does not disappear at all, what is too annoying. However, in the same time, Suspiria was much more beautiful and eye-grabbing than Braid, because it applied to a viewer a consistent set of methods making it easier to believe that director tried to create something great and powerful. In Braid many elements from other pictures are randomly mixed up which does not allow to easily answer the question 'Why is this movie unique and worth watching?" though in case of Suspiria we could say that it (primarily) is like an old-style horror with more disturbing content than we are already familiar with due to 'ancient' movies. And as a conclusion, I would like to say that I do not very like what is happening with horror just now - it seems like it tries to expand and find new horizonts but what it is reached in this picture and in other creatures like Suspiria is just borrowing ideas and shapes from previous pictures and from contemporary pictures having other genres. Yes, there are some original ideas but there are few of them. However, it is not as bad as what is happening with movies like 'Conjuring' or 'Lights out' so I would give this movie a mark which is higher the mean value.

When two addicts get loose on money, they decide to rob they're mental disturb childhood friend. Braid is like a mix of David Linch & Salvadore Dali, but in a bad way, awful script with so many weird moment, it's hard to keep ahead.

I wanted to like this movies, but it was so dull, so trying to be cool, and failing miserably the whole time. Do not watch this movie.

First of all, not sure who the heck 'molotox' is, but that person should NOT be allowed to review movies any more. One or two lines, not even in complete sentences, is not a review. It's a lazy, pointless waste of time. To say this movie has 'no plot' when there obviously is one (and it's even right there on the movies main page) shows molotox doesn't know what a plot is (unless it comes out of her/his backside). And to say the actors have 'no acting skills' also shows cluelessness. Just the wonderful Madeline Brewer blows up that silly claim. Anyone good enough to be a substantial character on a series of the quality of The Handmaid's Tale certainly has good acting skills. This film is quite fun. Yes, the basic premise is heinous, but that's only one aspect of the film. There's also the empowered friend who the others expected to take advantage of rather easily. Add to that the random, unexpected surprises/scares/weirdness and you have a worthy film to watch. Good performances, a few good scares, a cool twist or two, and a beautiful film visually. The use of a kinetic cinematography style and top notch production design make this one stand out. Now that's a review. Btw, molotox obviously doesn't know the meaning of 'profane' either.

People praising the films are suspicious. Do not watch, It is a waste of time. 1/10 star