Red Rooms

Oh yeah, ok, that was fucking insanely good. This is just gonna be me saying shit because this has actually blown my mind. The level of dissection in to the psyche of online true crime fanatics and the sensationalism it creates is a masterpiece. I love how it addresses desensitisation towards true crime, how we all seem to act in a way where people in the news isn’t really real-life and that only when you experience/see the atrocity you can really feel emotion towards it. This was simply captivating from minute one, Kelly-Anne’s character and Clementine’s character are used in totally opposite ways but both have similarly fallen victim to this desensitised reality in totally different ways. Clementine plays an authentic groupie of an accused killer, she acts exactly how someone in that mindset would, rationalises her thoughts and actions in a backwards fashion, shows how they irrational their beliefs are when confronted with hard evidence. Kelly-Anne is one of the most fascinating and wildly intriguing characters I’ve ever come across, so complex, it warps my mind to even comprehend what her rationale was for her actions throughout this film. My perception of her felt ever changing from a heroine to villain and everything in between, it jumped around to every possible outcome. I could not put my finger on what her end goal really was and I’m still left in a similar position after the film ended. She’s a collector of pain, looking for some sort of gratification, what kind of gratification I’m not sure, but she watches the videos of the most heinous crimes almost analytically and stoney-faced, she’s lost all sense of reality and is willing to do whatever it takes to fulfil her desires. All her actions are so composed but feel almost erratic due to their very nature. In the end, she’s clinical, meticulous and callous with how little thought she gives to the victims family, because nothing will stop her insatiable hunger for attention.