A genuinely astonishing film. I don’t think I’ve hated anything in quite a long time.
It’s just a conveyor belt of misery and whilst bleak films are fine, there’s something very crass about fabricating such dark stories involving real people. I know the film says at the start it’s not all true but inserting such scenes amongst reproductions of things that happened creates this blurring of what’s true or not which is quite icky. One of the many many things I disliked about Once Upon A Time In Hollywood was the rewriting of Sharon Tate’s life and this is no better. It also has a very very iffy reading around abortion
it’s also quite poorly made. For a 2 hr 45 (!!!) film, it looks good but the narrative is all over the shop. To steal an old XFM bit, its like when a comic strip from the 80s told the story of a pop star’s life - one panel they get a guitar for Christmas, the next one they’re on Top of the Pops. No cohesion whatsoever. The performances aren’t good either, aside from Adrien Brody. de Armas’ voice was proper grating at times.
One of the worst films I think I’ve ever seen