Our bodies Our bodies Our bodies: A bloody good satire | Arts & Leisure

A24’s newest launch “Our bodies Our bodies Our bodies” is a promising slasher the place, as the title suggests, our bodies do certainly hit the ground. 

Director Halina Reijn’s “Our bodies Our bodies Our bodies” follows a queer couple, performed by Amandla Stenberg and Maria Bakalova,and their mates as they take shelter in a distant, elaborate mansion to celebration amid a hurricane. 

That includes up to date hyper–pop sounds from the likes of Charli XCX and Slayyyter, “Our bodies Our bodiesOur bodies” arrived in theaters to make an announcement, and a daring one at that. 

The satirical slasher serves as a commentary on “woke” tradition caused by means of social media, primarily Twitter and TikTok. 

From the soar, the movie poses itself as an evaluation of Gen-Z conduct and class privilege. The characters wrongly make use of phrases which are all too aware of those who’re chronically on-line, together with “gaslight” and “poisonous,” whereas concurrently refraining from superfluous out-of-place cultural references. 

Every character, minus Alice’s a lot older boyfriend Greg, performed by Lee Tempo, depends on “Twitter converse” to convey their emotions and argue about who holds extra privilege whereas every of them comes from rich households. 

As soon as the hurricane begins, the characters determine to play “Our bodies Our bodiesOur bodies,” a whodunnit recreation by which an assigned killer faucets somebody on the shoulder at the hours of darkness after which that particular person proceeds to fake to be useless till there is just one particular person remaining. 

The sport, coupled with substance use and a few samurai sword motion, seems to be going as deliberate till characters truly start dying. Then, all hell breaks free. 

Mates accuse mates of silencing each other, physique dysmorphia is weaponized and nobody is protected. 

As the film’s title implies, the group of mates start to stay out the sport “Our bodies Our bodiesOur bodies.”  

The shining character all through the movie is undoubtedly breakout star Rachel Sennott who performs Alice. Whereas all of the characters are acutely out of contact with actuality, Alice is on a very completely different planet. Offering probably the most comedic aid, Sennott’s character is an apparent caricature of the typical Twitter or TikTok consumer. 

Pete Davidson’s character, David, was one other shocking comedic standout. Whereas audiences could’ve anticipated that his performing would possibly imitate his work Saturday Evening Dwell, he delivered a stellar efficiency as an out-of-touch twenty-something yr previous with a TikTok following and cash to spare. 

“Our bodies Our bodies Our bodies” options beautiful LED light-fueled visuals, paying homage to the typical faculty dorm, and an anxiety-fueled soundtrack by Disasterpeace. The shaky digital camera work at some factors all through the movie advertds pressure to the bloody slasher, sufficient to make viewers sit on the sting of their seats and chunk their nails. 

The movie takes an observant take a look at how relationships are shaped within the digital age and the values held in a time the place semantics take priority over precise activism. All of the whereas, like several outstanding slasher, the movie retains viewers guessing who the assassin is up till the very finish, and the reveal isn’t terribly straightforward to anticipate. 

Regardless, the movie grants a comedic reprieve to viewers whereas concurrently parodying a technology of individuals that care extra about buzzwords than the individuals round them.