Freak Show (2018)

A lot of fun.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

This movie is the weirdest in my opinion I think it's so brave and honest it's all true and people are ashamed of but but they shouldn't they should be broud, this movie could change someone's life

Please God, may I have a friend like Billy in my life? What a wonderful, sensitive, talented, intelligent, amazing character.

As a cinema aficionado I'll give any movie the opportunity to take 2 hours of my time. This, however, I couldn't believe even accomplished the necessary funding of getting made or thinking that it was a good idea of presenting such a monstrosity to the public.Let's break down certain elements of the film -- the acting was horrid and most likely career ending (not that AnnaSophia Robb's and Abigail Breslin's careers were going anywhere anyways), the cinematography was just completely uncomprehending (relying strictly on hard and natural lights making it difficult (and cold) to view), the direction (that most likely contributed to the horrid acting) was laughable at most, the story as predictable as ever and could best be related to what happens when food gets digested from start to finish... it always turns to crap in the end. The list continues on and on. Overall, it felt like it wanted to have that Jason Reitman indie-film type of execution, but just failed tremendously in ever part.At the end of the 'film' I felt like this was something made by a mentally unstable individual, most likely possessing access to some sort monetary account provided by today's Libtard Democratic politicians eager to contaminate and distribute its sickening propaganda onto the populous. Fortunately (and thankfully) only a handful of people have ever seen this garbage so it won't hold enough steam to influence the times of today. 1 out 10 (realistically -10/10) Don't waste your time.

Trudie Styler's first feature film is about staying loyal to yourself and what you stand for despite being bullied and physically assaulted. That this theme touched a nerve during the Berlinale, where it was shown in the Generation14+ youth section, was clear with a raving audience afterwards and long lines waiting before the cinema.Bullying is still not taken serious enough in our society: nearly all people have experienced it at some time in their lives, either at work, school, leisure, at home or in the public space. Leading often to violence by the bullied person, or depression and in the worst cases suicide, the latter being the leading cause of death among the age group of 15-25. So this movie will be a good education tool for schools to discuss the theme.The movie is fluently directed, well edited by Sophia Copolla's frequent editor Sarah Flack, has wonderful costumes and the soundtrack plus score is fitting. Although mostly aimed at a youth audience, Bette Midler and John McEnroe have small roles so the parents aren't left out. The young British actor Alex Lawther (the young Alan Turing in The Imitation Game) played the lead character Billy Bloom and has some future ahead I guess.There is an interesting parallel with Mean Girls, as the part where Billy analyses his voters and classmates has the same kind of sociological and psychological analysis that made that movie so interesting.During the Q&A afterwards Trudie talked about how certain bullies receive great power, sometimes even leading to the White House. And bullying is indeed often associated with the so-called dark triad (narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy).