Thursday, September 12, 2019

Under the Silver Lake 2018


     The date of the story is 2011.  Sam tells his mother that he’s working but he is not.  His landlord has warned him that he will be evicted if his overdue rent is not paid.  Sam sees a mysterious woman swimming in the apartment swimming pool.  She vanishes and Sam embarks on a quest across Los Angeles.  He wants to decode the secret behind her disappearance.  He becomes in the murkiest depths of mystery, scandal and conspiracy. 
     I didn’t understand this film from the beginning to the end?  I know that it’s overly long and I feel like I wasted valuable time that I can’t get back on a bad film!!  Instead of working or looking for a job, Sam plays Nintendo, talks on the phone to his mother and spies on other people with binoculars?  His car is keyed and then towed away for not paying the bill.  He beats up two kids for doing the keying.  1 ½* (I really didn’t like this movie!!)

139 min, Drama directed and written by David Robert Mitchell with Andrew Garfield, Riley Keough, Topher Grace, Wendy Vanden Heuvel, Deborah Geffner, Riki Lindhome, Jeannine Cota, Chris Gann, Callie Hernandez, Jessica Makinson, Sky Elobar, Stephanie Moore.

Note:  Imdb 6.5 out of 10, Roger Ebert 3* Brian Tallerico, Rotten Tomatoes 58% critic 56% audience, Rolling Stone 2* out of 5*, Common Sense Media Jeffrey M. Anderson age 17+, 3* out of 5*, no positive messages, no positive role models, violence 5*, sex 5* language 4*, consumerism 2*, drinking, drugs & smoking 3*.

Special Note:  The scenes with Riley Keough in the swimming pool are almost exact recreations of scenes from Marilyn Monroe’s last film, Something’s Got to Give 1962.  The film was not completed due to her sudden death.  Footage from that film can be found online.  The mansion of the songwriter is the same location as the estate in The Neon Demon 2016.  Box office is 1.9 million in the US.  All the viewers should ask for their money back or free tickets to see something else!!    

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