Bad Girl- Review
Alright, so I saw a special premiere of this movie last night. It was really a brilliant experience because everyone was able to watch the movie, have a Q and A with the director and meet him afterwards for coffee and nibbles. I have never attended a premiere like this and am proud to say that I got the opportunity to do so.
This movie was directed by Fin Edquist and featured the main talents of Samara Weaving and Sara West.
Without taking too much away from the film, bad girl Amy, is given a last chance by her adoptive parents to better her life in a new place where she knows no-one. But when they meet Chloe, a local girl who says she lives over at the next farm, Amy's adoptive parents believe that Chloe's attitude will rub off on Amy. But no-one knows of Chloe's past and just how bad a bad girl can be.
The Performances: Sara West plays the role of Amy, a self-loathing and angry girl who is always running into the law and trying her best to get on her parent's bad side. I thought Sara played Amy so well. When playing a bad girl, I believe that actors need to understand their role first before diving straight in. There have been many clichés about how bad girls should act, dress and carry themselves which has left a bit of devastation for the audience but Sara never had that problem which was amazing to see. Samara Weaving plays the role of Chloe, a smiley country girl who overuses the word 'folks' and does her best to appear as a good girl. However, when things start to change, Chloe becomes less of what she seems. Samara also did a brilliant job with her role here. Immediately, when observing faces, you can see that she carries her role of Chloe into the unknown. Everything from simple eye-twitches that help the audience begin to assume and then blow them all away. Samara's role was one that I never expected to develop into what it did and I'm still speechless about it right now. Truly brilliant casting in this film.
The cons: From the top of my head I really can't think of anything I didn't like except for the fact that I would have liked to hear some more music, not so much the instrumental artist for this film conducting but rather some songs with lyrical value that could have assisted with appealing to young adults or something that could've helped the character progression on just a little more. That's honestly really it though, I didn't have any dramas with this film at all.
The cinematography was beautiful in this film and really captured the countryside in its haunting yet peaceful state. It was also filmed in Perth too! The music was haunting and tense which added to the thriller aspect of this movie which I was so proud of. This was by Gavin Head and Warren Ellis.
Score: 8/10
MA15+ strong themes, drug use and violence