The Favourite

Nicholas holt plays an arrogant manchild part 3 The favorite is one fascinating and wonderfully weird character drama for sure. I acc really enjoyed the writing here. The dialogue is dirty and mean and weird which was really cool to see for such a posh background yk. Like it’s an interesting twist for a character drama taking place in royal England would be like. I mean I also quite like the characters, abigail is one lead damn! She’s so conniving and forward thinking yet like a real human being behind the schemes which made for a real interesting character. And Sarah is a great foil of sorts to her and their back and forth twist on “the game” is very interesting. It’s a fun watch for sure just to see how everything evolves. However I do also did want more scheming like in my opinion it should’ve been far more of a back and forth like there’s a moment where things should’ve taken a step up in intensity but then it just doesn’t. I mean I get it and what they did was interesting as well, cool twist on the game but maybe just one more play in the game would’ve been great.  Yorgos lanthimos god damn your style is really something! So posh with an odd and weird undertone so so cool to see. Also I love the way he frames his shots, so wide and grand in scale but there’s this bite to them where it just feels off yk. I love how the camera moves as well, so swingy and cool.  The acting is quite incredible honestly. Emma stone is obviously great like duh. Nicholas holt is like cool I suppose I think he’s able to deliver the dirty and mean dialogue the best imo. Like he nails the posh bite I think this one has. But in my opinion Olivia Coleman is a real fucking standout. She’s able to be this baby with a lot of depth and energy like she really just makes the movie work imo.  I quite like the favorite, shit this one makes me want to see what else yorgos can do bc it’s just such a unique style. But I think it couldve leaned into more of the comedy part of this character drama.  This one feels like a really slow tug of war that ends in like one person passing out.