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Discussion Thread: 175 - Last Night in Soho (2021)

Added 2023-09-12 12:59:01 +0000 UTC

Here's your place to discuss our Last Night in Soho (2021) episode.

Discussion Thread: 175 - Last Night in Soho (2021)

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Oh man, I was so excited for this movie and it was I think...one of my first trips back to a theater to see a new horror movie after the beginning of the pandemic and then was like, wait, what? Like I'm a huge Edgar Wright fan, and in Shaun and Hot Fuzz (and even some of the non-Cornetto stuff) the scripts were like very tightly written, and this one it just didn't feel all that well-thought out. I gotta say I didn't see the mental illness allegory when I saw it, it just felt very giallo to me: a woman needs to investigate a supernatural thing while big colors and fashion are happening, and she keeps encountering threats and red herrings. But it still didn't really seem to have much to contribute to giallo films or much to say about them. I know that he did have a lady cowriter on this, but in retrospect it was very funny to me that between this, the movie Men and the movie Barbarian, there seemed to be this like year of male directors making their 'gee, I've thought about it, and having to experience the world as a woman could be kind of scary and horrible' movie, but somehow for me, only Barbarian seemed to actually have thought about to any depth while still at the same time being the most bonkers and B-movie. Obviously, that's a subjective feeling, it sounds like other people were into it. That said, yeah, it looks great, there were some scary parts, loved to see Diana Rigg being rad one more time. And as another commenter mentioned, lovely to see Mayhem from Attack the Block all growed up and acting! If I'd just seen it and hadn't been expecting an Edgar Wright movie, I'd have been like, okay, neat, nice bit of giallo into some biddy-core.

2023-09-15 17:51:55 +0000 UTC

I haven’t listened to the episode yet, but it doesn’t seem like this movie was very well received, which is bumming me out because I really enjoyed it!! I loved the visuals (I was getting some major Suspiria vibes with all the bright colors and lighting), the casting (Anya Taylor-Joy is a goddess who can haunt me ANY DAY and the Queen of Thorns was giving me life), and just the overall feel. Was it perfect? Definitely not. Could it have gone deeper? For sure. Was I entertained? Hell yes. I didn’t take this as a “women’s mental health was the real monster all along” film. Ellie sees dead people. She grew up kind of sheltered in the country so the main ghost she encountered was her mom, who seemed pretty chill. Entering a city like London, you’re going to meet ALL THE GHOSTS, many of whom will NOT be chill, which would be so overwhelming and disorienting on top of the regular overwhelm of a city like that plus all the stressors of being a young person starting college in a cut-throat field. If anything, I took Ellie as being coded neurodivergent – her sensory issues (I FELT her during that dorm sequence); her perceived naivete; her vibrant inner world; trusting the wrong people and not trusting the right ones; her disastrous social interactions and struggles with fitting in with her peers; her special interests of 60’s music and fashion; hyper-fixating on trying to untangle the mystery of what was happening to her. All of this makes for a deeply flawed yet very relatable (at least to me) protagonist. I love you guys, but y’all seem to go really hard on movies that have female protagonists that don’t fit a certain mold (badasses like Ripley from Aliens or Grace from Ready or Not). Don’t get me wrong, I love a good strong female protagonist too, but not all women are like that (I’m definitely not), and expecting them to be isn’t really fair either. And honestly, I think Ellie had plenty of agency, she wasn’t allowing herself to be victimized, and she did just fine considering the hand she was dealt. Just like me. Also, props to the filmmakers for depicting some of the bullshit and trauma that women often go through without including any horrifically graphic sexual assault sequences. One of my loved ones is the biggest horror fan in the world, but she can’t access certain horror movies because the filmmakers insist on “being realistic” about these things, which is just the worst.

2023-09-14 16:23:52 +0000 UTC

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