On the podcast this time, Steven and Sean are reliving our film school days with the twisting, turning 2020 film from Lawrence Michael Levine, Black Bear.
I can just about guarantee that this film is not what you think it is. It certainly threw us for a loop when we got into it. We had one of those fabled shared watching experiences with Black Bear. We thought we knew what we were getting into, but man, could we not have been more mistaken.
The first half of it is about what you\u2019d expect and then BAM! Things get crazy.
There\u2019s a power in flipping the expectations of a film viewer. Lulling a watcher into a sense of relative comfort (not to suggest that any of this film is comfortable) and then subverting that feeling can help make for a memorable work.
It certainly doesn\u2019t hurt anything when you\u2019ve got the great Aubrey Plaza and Sarah Gadon doing some phenomenal work. Aside from the clever story, their powerful performances are what makes this film work as well as it does.
(Recorded on May 12, 2022)
Links to Stuff We Mentioned:
Lawrence Michael Levine - IMDb
Parks and Recreation (TV Series 2009\u20132015) - IMDb
How The Shining Changed Shelley Duvall Forever - SlashFilm
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