"Bones and All" is becoming known as the "cannibal" movie, but there's a lot more going on here than that.
It won't be to everyone's...ahem....taste, but some will probably be very moved by it. I wasn't one of them, but I liked it much more than I thought I would based on the premise.
A lot of people are going to debate what the cannibalism is a stand in for. The most obvious interpretation is addiction. But at other times it seems to be about sexuality or mental illness. I think really it's just meant to evoke different-ness, and how hard the world is for people who carry their baggage around with them and don't feel like they're ever going to belong anywhere because of it. It is a gross movie for sure, probably grosser than it needs to be. But it's also a rather sweet and melancholy film too.
Mark Rylance was the film's wrong note for me. He gives a ghoulish, over the top performance, and forces a nasty ending that the movie didn't need. But the performances of the two main actors, Timothee Chalamet and Taylor Russell, are quite good.
Grade: A-
It won't be to everyone's...ahem....taste, but some will probably be very moved by it. I wasn't one of them, but I liked it much more than I thought I would based on the premise.
A lot of people are going to debate what the cannibalism is a stand in for. The most obvious interpretation is addiction. But at other times it seems to be about sexuality or mental illness. I think really it's just meant to evoke different-ness, and how hard the world is for people who carry their baggage around with them and don't feel like they're ever going to belong anywhere because of it. It is a gross movie for sure, probably grosser than it needs to be. But it's also a rather sweet and melancholy film too.
Mark Rylance was the film's wrong note for me. He gives a ghoulish, over the top performance, and forces a nasty ending that the movie didn't need. But the performances of the two main actors, Timothee Chalamet and Taylor Russell, are quite good.
Grade: A-