The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)'s comments

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boulderman

Watched again ahead of Poor Things

3 months 1 week ago

dippygirl78

I don't understand why he struggled with the decision... I know who I would choose.

1 year 3 months ago

Emiam

4/5
SVT Play October 2021. Mysticism, unpredictability and excitement. Different. I liked it. Some may not like the end, maybe.

2 years 5 months ago

floatsuit

Why isn’t this in any top lists??

3 years 6 months ago

Cynicus Rex

One hell of an AA campaign.

3 years 9 months ago

Adrian B AWESOME

Funniest movie of 2017!

4 years 8 months ago

nihonjindesuka

@devilsadvocado: Sounds like you are even more fucked up than Martin.

5 years 2 months ago

Piratsvin

Weird and illogical movie.

I mean...who in their right mind would turn down Alicia Silverstone?

5 years 7 months ago

Yorgos Lanthimos' The Killing of a Sacred Deer keeps you at a distance almost from the get-go, with oppressive camera work, grinding musique concrete, and performances purposefully devoid of emotion. Everything about it seems designed to make you apprehensive as you wonder what horrible truth lies beneath of its surface. ON the surface, this is an odd thriller about a heart surgeon who befriends the teenage son of a deceased patient, a relationship that will, through some kind of magical realism (look up the myth suggested by the title), give his family a strange illness. At one point, one character says "it's a metaphor", and it's true of the entire movie. Though re-contextualized as part of the film's plot, everything that happens has been cribbed from the symptoms of trauma - survivor's guilt, apathy, repression, walking on egg shells, not being able to get out of bed, worrying about one's health, self-harm, acting out sexually, loss of appetite, replacing the loved one rather desperately, tears, remodeling, showing up to the house with food, making excuses, playing the blame game, busy work, and so on, and so forth - or else is a symbol for it - lost mp3 players, watches that keep ticking deep underwater, open hearts and wounds... And while that's an interesting intellectual game, it does not lead to an emotional involvement, nor does the film's resolution feel all that satisfying. It isn't meant to. You swallow the heartache, and you move on, if not necessarily forward.

5 years 11 months ago