Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Spontaneous (2020)

 Members of the senior class at a suburban New Jersey high school start spontaneously combusting for no aparent reason. There is a romance between Katherine Langford and Charlie Plummer, there's some comedy, and government agents, and drugs prescription and recreational, Piper Parabo plays a mom, there is prom and depression and Westboro Baptist type protesters, and 80's music, and anti Trump jokes and some poignancy. Not sure what to make of it and I think that's the point. The feels were all over the place, it was off putting, kind of pretentious but kinda almost worked. Not quite sure what to make of it, but the high concept was too high so I didn't really like it, though pieces worked well enough. Would have liked to have the lead couple in a more normal movie. **

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