Spree (Spoiler Free)
Jan. 28th, 2021 02:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
singedsunThis was an interesting one. Another digital take on horror. Our main character, Kurt is a digital content creator, constant livestreaming and making videos and struggling for views. He seems not to realize any other way to live, his home life wasn't great and he's turned all his energy into trying to be popular, trying to gain followers. He's jealous of this kid he used to babysit who has grown up to be a really popular streamer with prank video and game content. He's constantly struggling with who he is and where his value lies.
He decides on an idea when he starts livestreaming his rides as a Spree driver (an Uber/Lyft style app). He want something real life, something that's attention grabbing and decides to start filming himself killing his rides. This isn't really spoiler territory, as we catch on very early. He filming videos as he prepares his tools and his car set up and calls it #thelesson.
The day he decides to do this (with a goal of 6 in one day) he takes a SpreeSocial pick-up (a shared ride essentially). There's a douchey guy who's already giving him a hard time when he decides to pick up a second ride, a well known black female comedian with a popular online presence. The douchey guy makes an ass of himself (as expected she livestreams the whole thing and posts it online after). She also gives Kurt a hard time after he tries to press her for follows, and she ends up asking to leave the ride early.
Things take a turn here for Kurt. He's had this awkward interaction with someone who's essentially an influence and it didn't go well, while he's already been livestreaming and this one kid who's very popular refuses to share/host his stream because it's "boring". Kurt's already light grasp on his mental stability slips further here and he sets a string of actions into motion that boost his watchers, his followers and in the meantime put him back together with this comedian later in the night.
I liked parts of this. Joe Keery's energy as Kurt is all over the place, it's sad and frustrated and extremely manic and he plays it all really really well. You can see him let Kurt's veil slip, revealing the lonely, needy man behind this drive for content. David Arquette also has a part as Kurt's distant father, who it's obvious has had an affect on Kurt and made him this eager, needy person not for actual connection, but validation and recognition from a faceless mass of followers.
The early violence is pretty simple, as his plans work out in the first third of his livestream on this day. It does get a little more manic, a little more violent and bloodier. It's not gorey, but definitely content warnings for a light slasher movie's worth of blood and violence, and also a content warning for the second half where a gun is involved.
Otherwise, if these digital types of horror movies appeal, I'd recommend checking it out.
He decides on an idea when he starts livestreaming his rides as a Spree driver (an Uber/Lyft style app). He want something real life, something that's attention grabbing and decides to start filming himself killing his rides. This isn't really spoiler territory, as we catch on very early. He filming videos as he prepares his tools and his car set up and calls it #thelesson.
The day he decides to do this (with a goal of 6 in one day) he takes a SpreeSocial pick-up (a shared ride essentially). There's a douchey guy who's already giving him a hard time when he decides to pick up a second ride, a well known black female comedian with a popular online presence. The douchey guy makes an ass of himself (as expected she livestreams the whole thing and posts it online after). She also gives Kurt a hard time after he tries to press her for follows, and she ends up asking to leave the ride early.
Things take a turn here for Kurt. He's had this awkward interaction with someone who's essentially an influence and it didn't go well, while he's already been livestreaming and this one kid who's very popular refuses to share/host his stream because it's "boring". Kurt's already light grasp on his mental stability slips further here and he sets a string of actions into motion that boost his watchers, his followers and in the meantime put him back together with this comedian later in the night.
I liked parts of this. Joe Keery's energy as Kurt is all over the place, it's sad and frustrated and extremely manic and he plays it all really really well. You can see him let Kurt's veil slip, revealing the lonely, needy man behind this drive for content. David Arquette also has a part as Kurt's distant father, who it's obvious has had an affect on Kurt and made him this eager, needy person not for actual connection, but validation and recognition from a faceless mass of followers.
The early violence is pretty simple, as his plans work out in the first third of his livestream on this day. It does get a little more manic, a little more violent and bloodier. It's not gorey, but definitely content warnings for a light slasher movie's worth of blood and violence, and also a content warning for the second half where a gun is involved.
Otherwise, if these digital types of horror movies appeal, I'd recommend checking it out.
