Pearl

I understand Pearl very much, on a personal level.

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Pearl

Wow, this was a really good horror movie. It definitely deserves to win an Award, especially after seeing Mia Goth's performance as Pearl, an unstable woman who is sheltered on the farm with her domineering mother and invalid father. Her husband is overseas, fighting in World War I and she aspires to be a famous dancer/actress. The movie is such an interesting case study, and Goth is great to watch. It's intriguing to see what Pearl will do at any given minute. One minute, she's quirky and cute and talking to farm animals. The next minute, she's making out with a scarecrow. Then she could be yelling at someone, and looks like she's about to kill them. It's like the female version of Joker and Taxi Driver, set in the 1900's. 60 years before the events of X, we meet Pearl, a woman who aspires to be great and become famous, but she's trapped at her parent's boring farmhouse. She makes friends with a projectionist at the local theater, who promises to take her away to Europe. Her sister in law, Mitsy tells her about a dance competition at the church, and she's determined to win. As time goes on, she slowly descends further into madness and won't let anyone get in the way of her dreams. If you love period horror films and psychotic women, I would highly recommend PEARL!!!

Jesus, what did I just watch? Was that a good movie? Did I like watching this? No, I didn't. The entire movie was annoying to me, from the 1st scene until the last one. No kidding. In between, shocking things did happen. My jaw was on the floor several times. She appears like a naive "Heidi in the mountains". But suddenly she starts doing weird things. She has a depressive mother, who has a hard life, and who knows that her naive Heidi is different. The ill father seems to suffer from a stroke and he is paralyzed. And naive Heidi wants to become a dancing star. That sounds like the perfect conditions for a fairy tale, as if a prince were to come and make everything good. But then Heidi reveals her ego-focused, narcissistic, psychopathic personality. Which is no fun to watch. When things don't go her way, she kills people, animals and her own family. She lacks compassion. Suddenly, she kills a beautiful goose with a pitchfork and feeds it to an alligator. Also, her mother is killed, her father, her... lover. Who else was killed...... ..her sister-in-law was killed. The alligator won't starve, that's for sure. And I'm assuming her husband is also killed after the credits roll. Maybe there is an audience for this film that will enjoy it, but it's not my cup of tea.

Pearl (2022) is a movie my wife and I saw in theatres last night. The storyline follows a young lady in 1918 who lives on a farm with her handicapped father and over burdened mother and whose husband is off at war. The young lady has delusions of grandeur and feels she should be a movie star and far away from her farm. Her family needs her to stay and help with chores and keep them alive. When there's tryouts for a traveling dance team she plans to audition whether her family wants her to or not. This movie is directed by Ti West (Them) and stars Mia Goth (A Cure for Wellness), David Corenswet (The Politician), Emma Jenkins-Purro (The Brokenwood Mysteries), Matthew Sunderland (The Lost City of Z) and Tandi Wright (Jack the Giant Slayer). The cinematography in this movie is outstanding, as is the attire, depiction of the era and the performance of Mia Goth (who co-wrote and produced this movie with West). This is more of a character piece with horror elements than a traditional horror movie. There's elements that worked for me and scenes that left me scratching my head. I will say I was very frustrated watching this movie. Every scene with the alligator was awesome. There's a pitchfork scene, fight with the mother and explosion I adored. The father was also a solid, creepy character (the bath scenes made me cringe). However, the movie feels like it is trying too hard to prove Pearl is insane. The scarecrow scene felt rediculous and didn't work for me. How people reacted to her behavior at times felt off (they tolerated her uncomfortably long). The monologue scene was great acting but felt unrealistic from the sister in-law's perspective. The ending was sudden and I wanted more. Overall, there's things to like about this movie and components that dragged and was overdone. I would score this a 5.5/10 and recommend seeing it once.

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First of all I loved X, so I was really looking forward to seeing Pearl. I was highly disappointed in how the movie came out. It felt very rushed in my opinion. Mia Goth was fantastic though she deserves an Academy Award for her role, but other then that the movie sucked. It was beautifully shot, but again it felt like A24 told them that it needed to be out before the end of the year and it was quantity over quality. Who knows I may have been in a bad mood or something and maybe I need to rewatch it. Pearl though I thought was a flop. Then they already have a third one coming out called Maxxxine. Like we need a third one.

Ti West and A24 have given us another masterpiece this year. This slow burn melodrama slasher pays an extraordinary homage to early Hollywood films especially with their technical achievements (from the score to the editing to the cinematography to the fonts). Goth's performance is a masterclass in horror cinema and the entire cast did a fine job as well. If you enjoy 'X', you will absolutely enjoy this prequel even though it is more of a character driven film than your typical slasher like X but it is an awesome companion. And again, Mia Goth deserves an Oscar nomination I can't emphasize this enough.

I kept waiting and waiting for some cliffhanger or some surprise or some twisting game and it never happened. It was dumb from beginning to end. I don't understand who the hell is giving it such high reviews on here. If you like creepy weird dumb stuff that's not scary or memorable in any way this is your ticket. It's okay if it's a creepy weird movie I like stuff like that if it's good. But this is just stupid bad pointless movie from beginning to end. There's actually no reason to be able to make this. Waste of paper the script was even written on. I don't know how these things even get mad.