Anya Taylor-Joy (formerly of “Split”)
and Olivia Cooke (formerly of “Me, Earl and the Dying Girl”) play childhood
friends Lily (Taylor) and Amanda (Cooke) who reconnect in suburban WASPY Connecticut
after years of growing apart. Lily has turned into a polished, upper-class
teenager, with a fancy boarding school on her transcript and a coveted
internship on her resume. Amanda is still in her middle working class neighborhood
who has now developed a sharp wit with her own set of particular and peculiar attitudes
as well becoming a social outcast in circles at school.
Though they initially seem
completely different from the adolescent days, the pair begin to bond through Lily's
contempt for her oppressive and oddly weird stepfather Mark. As the two young
ladies get reacquainted and their friendship grows, they begin to bring out one
another's most destructive tendencies. Together they start to share the same ambitions
that lead them to hire a local hustler named “Tim” (the late Anton Yelchin formerly
of Star Trek Reboot aka Chekov) to take matters into their own hands to set
their lives straight.
REVIEW:
An
equal party psychological thriller and satirically wink – wink humorous look at
the human nature of two modern millennials devising something that is both brilliantly
devious and brilliantly absurd that you don’t know as the viewer if you should
be laughing at the events on the screen or squirming. I did both.
With a screenplay that is
nasty, sarcastic, witty and depraved the film at its core is about a pair of ice
cold deceptive teenage sociopaths set in a dark noir setting that makes fun of itself
while being just enough horrifying to keep you from ever guessing how this low
budget film will end.
Stylistically, “Thoroughbreds”
is not for everyone, but it has real value for the adventurous film goer like
me who wants to be challenged with something fresh and imaginative even if the
principle characters in the film come across as two highbrow psycho bat sh*t
crazy babes.
3.25 Stars
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