I did like Shia LeBeauf in it. He tends to pick these type of movies lately. He's an interesting cross between (wanna be)good actor and movie star that allows me to have something to pay attention to.
I like the relationship his character has with the lead character, Star. It was intense, although not the best intensity that filmmaker, Andrea Arnold has put on celluloid.
I like Star's journey as she tries to get out of her not so good situation for something better. Andrea Arnold does a great job of picking lead actors. Nothing is really going on in the film yet I'm very attracted to the life and persona of Star to keep wanting to push through this movie to see what happens.
And this is the part that is not so good about American Honey. I am pushing through it. It's long, too long and it feels long. It's too real and that makes for a movie that goes long for no reason and you can't wait for it to end.
I liked Shia in it and the character Star, but the movie starts out getting to know the supporting characters, A group of kids I just found more annoying than interesting. Although my announce is more of a compliment to Arnold's ability to capture real people, it's just my unfortunate that her mastery of these kids is as brilliant and repulsive to me as Lena Dunham's brilliant portrait of the charters on her TV show, Girls.
I understood the artistry in Arnold's last movie, the somewhat attempt at mainstream called Wuthering Heights, but to be honest this film does not live up to the intensity that I expected from Arnold. To me, her best movie is still Fish.
So I really don't want to say it's a bad movie, but it does get boring in the mundane and that's bad when you don't care as much about the content.
I like the relationship his character has with the lead character, Star. It was intense, although not the best intensity that filmmaker, Andrea Arnold has put on celluloid.
I like Star's journey as she tries to get out of her not so good situation for something better. Andrea Arnold does a great job of picking lead actors. Nothing is really going on in the film yet I'm very attracted to the life and persona of Star to keep wanting to push through this movie to see what happens.
And this is the part that is not so good about American Honey. I am pushing through it. It's long, too long and it feels long. It's too real and that makes for a movie that goes long for no reason and you can't wait for it to end.
I liked Shia in it and the character Star, but the movie starts out getting to know the supporting characters, A group of kids I just found more annoying than interesting. Although my announce is more of a compliment to Arnold's ability to capture real people, it's just my unfortunate that her mastery of these kids is as brilliant and repulsive to me as Lena Dunham's brilliant portrait of the charters on her TV show, Girls.
I understood the artistry in Arnold's last movie, the somewhat attempt at mainstream called Wuthering Heights, but to be honest this film does not live up to the intensity that I expected from Arnold. To me, her best movie is still Fish.
So I really don't want to say it's a bad movie, but it does get boring in the mundane and that's bad when you don't care as much about the content.