For people that appreciate brain teasers like 2001: A Space Odyssey, Mulholland Drive, Borgman, Under The Skin, and Sleeping Beauty.The fruit trees are blooming, the birds are back, the sun is rising earlier each day, and it's time to start clearing a space for this year's garden. While the movie doesn't meet it's impact potential by missing some opportunities for heavier moments and more character development, it is still fascinating, challenging, and rewarding for an open mind. You have to stop wanting the movie to be what you want it to be, and start wondering why it is the way it is, if you want to take something away from it. It's maddening and incredibly uncomfortable to watch, but that is it's aim and success. The subtraction and skewing of emotion allows us to get a closer look at ourselves and our expectations for coping with threats and loss. The intentionally cold and flat reactions from it's characters will turn many off, but give insight into empathy and trust. You aren't supposed to ENJOY it, you are supposed to appreciate it. While The Killing Of a Sacred Deer will be dismissed by the mainstream, for it's very unconventional acting, pacing, and plot, for other's it offers a discomforting conversation on the dark reality of nature and justice. It's not "weird" just to be weird, It's trying to show us something discomforting, that conventional movies CAN'T.
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