Aurora

Electrifying

Reach for the stars and fall flat on your face. This movie such a fantastic and interesting concept, but does not have the nutcrackers to back it up. If it won't go big, I'd rather it just go home. Borrowing ideas from David Lynch and House of Leaves is fine but don't expect me to lavish you with praise just because you know what a Holloway is, or publicly adored Twin Peaks. If this backrooms could be compared to the Black Lodge, it's like the bathrooms, because I would rather not stay long and it probably smells bad, especially not with Mr Twenty-years-old's first Navidsonlike OC sauntering around trying to make me care about his failed dreams and stinking of mediocrity and whisky. I appreciate that this movie does do some things well; the set design is great which leads to a sometimes genuinely creepy atmosphere,the actors are giving it their all, and it can choose to have some fun and interesting camera work. But unfortunately Mr *Pixels (2016) *does not have a tight enough grip on this movie to create something that is more than enjoyable at best.

This is like *click (2006) *if Adam Sandler understood the inherent female horror of the happily ever after fantasy. Ah! it is truth that most men should kill themselves!

I feel like people saying this is a "good for her" movie are completely missing the point. Dani is a marginalised and vulnerable person who is groomed by Pelle and the cult into becoming one of them, essentially filling the hole that her oppression and trauma has created in her with this new form of oppression within this ecofascist, patriarchal pagan cult. I think I realised this when I first watched the movie. I was 14 and really high, and the orgy scene freaked me out at a friend's house, when we were watching it two people were making out on the couch next to me, and that's what I remember most vividly whenever I put on this movie. When discussing this film, it's also important to note that I got a buddy who's Swedish. He's gotten the nickname "hard mode life guy" because he is a Gay Jewish native American autistic asthmatic. I imagine this is the sort of shit he has to deal with on the regular in his hard, hard Swedish life. So just remember that next time you are going through a bad day in Sweden