The Party (2018)
Various individuals think they’re coming together for a party in a private home, but a series of revelations results in a huge crisis that throws their belief systems – and their values – into total disarray.
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Sick Product of a Sick System
Highly Overrated But Still Good
Good movie but grossly overrated
Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.
I really really tried, I did - I mean Cillian Murphy - you could watch it just to look at him couldn't you? Well the answer for me was no no no - no plot - no likeable or even relatable characters - no nothing. Gave up after 20 gruelling minutes.
First, it didn't look like a party, second, the dialogue fell short. Too short. I did giggle at times, what is good. Loved the characters but they didn't got the time to get alive on the screen. So it was an below average movie. Nothing to remember about..
A film very different from what we're used to watching. It talks about all those problems or stupid secrets that we have and never want to share, so it brings troubles. Once we stop being so weird everything will be fine.
Short and very much to the point with some fine lines. The dialogue is tight and focused on the cliches of each characters' beliefs, delivered with excellent, pent up performances, deliciously, and unflatteringly revealed in intense black and white close ups. A small group of self-regarding, thinking bourgeoisie, each with their own set of life-style ideals, each complacently convinced of their own brilliance, all thinking they are right and very right-on, meet each other in the raw. Secrets, lies and betrayal lurk slightly beneath the surface of their self-satisfied lives. Yes, this does pick on the contemporary, unquestionable, politically-correct shibboleths of a particular group of people, admittedly in an exaggerated and very focused way, but how better to really get to the soul of their self-obsessed narcissism. Look a little deeper, though, and it mirrors much that is going wrong with our media-obsessed, sound bite, reality tv, celebrity worshiping, disfunctional times. It could be called 'close up' because that's what it is, a close up look at our own vanities. Modern theatre at its best, and brilliantly brought to the big screen.