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Remain Mysterious
Dec. 16th, 2019 05:40 amSo I watched this movie called Sisterhood of Night on tubi for free. I happened upon it when looking for pictures of Georgie Henley for Narnia-related stuff and decided to watch it just to get a sense of what her acting would look like when she wasn't downplaying her age. It was interesting.
It makes a lot of direct calls toward the Salem Witch Trials/The Crucible while being a movie about teenagers that is probably mostly for teenagers, but I think that it would be wrong to call it just a "teen movie." A "teen movie" is something that is fully accessible to teenagers where they are, but I think that this would only really hit the most introspective of people in their upper teens even though it depicts them. If anything I would think that it is probably more effective as a rallying cry for adults to have some empathy with what it is like to be a teenager. That's not to say it wouldn't be entertaining to a teenager, but I think some of the literary references are a bit above the pay-grade of the average teenager. But perhaps that in itself sort of proves one of the points the film is making about both the over- and under-estimation of teenagers.
It's a film about mass-hysteria and the consequences of it. It contains a (not particularly graphic) suicide and talk of sexual assault both real and faked that are disturbing and maybe kind of oddly glossed over at times, but I think that overall it is interesting to see a movie that goes that way rather than down a more cynical path.
It as the actress who now plays Elle in Netflix's The Society now which makes me wonder what exactly the average shelf-life for an on-screen teenager is. I worry I am aging too fast.
It makes a lot of direct calls toward the Salem Witch Trials/The Crucible while being a movie about teenagers that is probably mostly for teenagers, but I think that it would be wrong to call it just a "teen movie." A "teen movie" is something that is fully accessible to teenagers where they are, but I think that this would only really hit the most introspective of people in their upper teens even though it depicts them. If anything I would think that it is probably more effective as a rallying cry for adults to have some empathy with what it is like to be a teenager. That's not to say it wouldn't be entertaining to a teenager, but I think some of the literary references are a bit above the pay-grade of the average teenager. But perhaps that in itself sort of proves one of the points the film is making about both the over- and under-estimation of teenagers.
It's a film about mass-hysteria and the consequences of it. It contains a (not particularly graphic) suicide and talk of sexual assault both real and faked that are disturbing and maybe kind of oddly glossed over at times, but I think that overall it is interesting to see a movie that goes that way rather than down a more cynical path.
It as the actress who now plays Elle in Netflix's The Society now which makes me wonder what exactly the average shelf-life for an on-screen teenager is. I worry I am aging too fast.
