I liked the bright faded-out pastel color palette. I'd call it "child-like, but detached". Pretty fitting combination for the headspace of an adult actress, considering the industry's obsession with "youth".
Incredibly sincere mother-daughter relationship that immediately captured me. The level of sincerity and authenticity Sean Baker communicates is always on another level. I could watch his characters bicker, in their special way, for hours.
(In hindsight, this is a mess of a review (it sucks), read on at your own discretion)
Sadie is isolated, and the few interactions we see of her with people other than Jane she's either dismissed or hounded. In opposition to this Jane is showered with attention, she can't get enough of it! Sadie is socially abandoned, Jane has no meaningful relationships. Jane is objectified, trapped by other people, 'maintained' as the other models are. Her concept of intimacy is eroded by her work, and money being the catalyst that brings them together is meaningfully poetic. Her life is so transactional that the only way she could find a non-transactional relationship is through the money!
This movie did come across as a bit difficult to parse compared to some others. I'd say rather than utilizing these character on two extremes to make way for the movie's rhetoric, it serves to further solidify the endearment of the "unlikely duo". Point being, I actually don't think they collapse into clean parallels. Jane's side contributes a lot of potential thematic context, but its mostly empty on the side of Sadie, she's just a woman who lives alone. As such, there is too much interpretive labor on our part needing to be done to reach any satisfying, thematically whole conclusion.
Although I'll admit, I have no clue what the dog is doin'.
I liked the bright faded-out pastel color palette. I'd call it "child-like, but detached". Pretty fitting combination for the headspace of an adult actress, considering the industry's obsession with "youth".
Incredibly sincere mother-daughter relationship that immediately captured me. The level of sincerity and authenticity Sean Baker communicates is always on another level. I could watch his characters bicker, in their special way, for hours.
(In hindsight, this is a mess of a review (it sucks), read on at your own discretion)
Sadie is isolated, and the few interactions we see of her with people other than Jane she's either dismissed or hounded. In opposition to this Jane is showered with attention, she can't get enough of it! Sadie is socially abandoned, Jane has no meaningful relationships. Jane is objectified, trapped by other people, 'maintained' as the other models are. Her concept of intimacy is eroded by her work, and money being the catalyst that brings them together is meaningfully poetic. Her life is so transactional that the only way she could find a non-transactional relationship is through the money!
This movie did come across as a bit difficult to parse compared to some others. I'd say rather than utilizing these character on two extremes to make way for the movie's rhetoric, it serves to further solidify the endearment of the "unlikely duo". Point being, I actually don't think they collapse into clean parallels. Jane's side contributes a lot of potential thematic context, but its mostly empty on the side of Sadie, she's just a woman who lives alone. As such, there is too much interpretive labor on our part needing to be done to reach any satisfying, thematically whole conclusion.
Although I'll admit, I have no clue what the dog is doin'.
