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Jonathan SnipesCast:
Alex Essoe, Amanda Fuller, Noah Segan, Fabianne Therese, Pat Healy, Louis Dezseran, Marc Senter, Elissa Dowling, Trent Haaga, Maria Olsen, Garrett Boyd (more)VOD (3)
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Determined to make it in Hollywood, aspiring actress Sarah Walker spends her days working a dead-end job under the watchful eye of her patronizing boss, Carl, enduring petty friendships with other struggling artists and competing actors and going on countless casting calls in the hopes of finally catching her big break. After a series of strange auditions with a mysterious casting duo from famed production company Astraeus Pictures, Sarah finally lands the leading role in their newest film. The producer thinks she has a bright future ahead of her, but this coveted opportunity comes with bizarre ramifications that will transform Sarah both mentally and physically into something beautiful... and altogether terrifying. (Cinemax)
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A more literal and drastic version of Black Swan. It balances on the border of a serious parable and a B-movie caricature, and both approaches clash a lot against each other. I’m not ecstatic, but it does have a couple of effective scenes.
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This thing is completely oozing with "Aronofsky" (which needn't necessarily be a bad thing), unfortunately I couldn't help internally rating it "WTF" at some points and I really don't mean that as a positive. It's certainly thought-provoking as an allegory for a life full of personal ambition and desperation to succeed in the big movie world. The transformation of the main character is interesting on the whole, but only to the point where the plot starts to veer towards the overly spiritual. I understand that the sectarian theme is actually secondary here and only serves as a means to satisfy its own ambitions, yet I couldn't help feeling that it was actually overblown in some places. And the soundtrack, which in the vast majority of cases would be more suited to a giallo film, didn't add much to it either. But the van gore scene was worth it.
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Aptly set among the acting scene in Los Angeles, Starry Eyes is a horror allegory about the foulness of excessive ambition that overcomes people and makes them lose their friends and even themselves. “Climbing over people” becomes “climbing over corpses” here, because after the interesting, mysterious and psychological first half, the film becomes a bloodbath. Which doesn’t do it much good. Afterwards, it just tries to save itself with a wannabe artsy, but nevertheless original ending.
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