Before tonight, I thought Netflix only made mediocre movies. I was definitely wrong: this is anything but mediocre.
It has been a time since I last accidentally saw something like this. Absolutely breathtaking.
It's everything we all really want: we get to know all there is to know about the characters after they are 30 sec in screen, basically no real development, a pletora of pointless subplots, the happiest happy-end of all time: it's perfect!
I recommend it to anyone searching for an intense and jaw-dropping movie. It made me feel physical pain for the first time since I inadvertently saw Foodfight on cable TV at 4 AM a few years ago.
Now, the unbelievably rich plot:
1) There is a girl. Her (only) traits:
i) She likes to film stuff;
ii) She is angry with her mother for some reason;
iii) She is still a virgin;
iv) She has a boyfriend with a dead father (he only became her boyfriend due to the death of the father).
2) The boyfriend's traits are:
i) His father is dead;
ii) He is sooo saaad;
iii) For some reason, Keanu Reeves (yeah, Keanu Reeves - not some Keanu Reeves' character: Keanu Reeves as Keanu Reeves) ask him to take care of his beach-house in Malibu.
He invites his girlfriend to stay with him in Keanu Reeves' beach-house.
3) The girl has a cousin. She is a joy to watch: the actress looks like she has eaten to much sugar.
*** all the actors are terrible, but terrible in an almost charming way - its not their fault, though, they had to deal with a terrible director and a bizarre script. ***
The girl invites her cousin to help herself get laid. Best character in the movie!
4) There is a country music musician. His introduction scene is certainly in my TOP 10 ANIME ENTRANCES OF ALL TIME. He is a friend of the girl's boyfriend and definitely a true sad-boy.
5) There is a lifeguard who firstly tries to arrest the musician for sleeping in a public beach, than, after a discourse made by the cousin ("California's a concept. It's a way of saying 'We're not Nevada, and thank God for that.'"), he becomes their best friend and (apparently) starts living whit them in Keanu Reeves' beach-house. Oh, and we also find out he was the apprentice of the boy's surfer dead dad.
6) The entire movie spans less than 72h, but they all manage to sort up all their lives without really changing anything other than who-is-kissing-who.
7) Apparently, 16k views on youtube is enough to totally change a music producer's mind.
8) There are MANY pointless and readily solved subplots.
9) The lucid dream sequence is simply b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l.
10) I clapped when I saw Keanu Reeves.
It has been a time since I last accidentally saw something like this. Absolutely breathtaking.
It's everything we all really want: we get to know all there is to know about the characters after they are 30 sec in screen, basically no real development, a pletora of pointless subplots, the happiest happy-end of all time: it's perfect!
I recommend it to anyone searching for an intense and jaw-dropping movie. It made me feel physical pain for the first time since I inadvertently saw Foodfight on cable TV at 4 AM a few years ago.
Now, the unbelievably rich plot:
1) There is a girl. Her (only) traits:
i) She likes to film stuff;
ii) She is angry with her mother for some reason;
iii) She is still a virgin;
iv) She has a boyfriend with a dead father (he only became her boyfriend due to the death of the father).
2) The boyfriend's traits are:
i) His father is dead;
ii) He is sooo saaad;
iii) For some reason, Keanu Reeves (yeah, Keanu Reeves - not some Keanu Reeves' character: Keanu Reeves as Keanu Reeves) ask him to take care of his beach-house in Malibu.
He invites his girlfriend to stay with him in Keanu Reeves' beach-house.
3) The girl has a cousin. She is a joy to watch: the actress looks like she has eaten to much sugar.
*** all the actors are terrible, but terrible in an almost charming way - its not their fault, though, they had to deal with a terrible director and a bizarre script. ***
The girl invites her cousin to help herself get laid. Best character in the movie!
4) There is a country music musician. His introduction scene is certainly in my TOP 10 ANIME ENTRANCES OF ALL TIME. He is a friend of the girl's boyfriend and definitely a true sad-boy.
5) There is a lifeguard who firstly tries to arrest the musician for sleeping in a public beach, than, after a discourse made by the cousin ("California's a concept. It's a way of saying 'We're not Nevada, and thank God for that.'"), he becomes their best friend and (apparently) starts living whit them in Keanu Reeves' beach-house. Oh, and we also find out he was the apprentice of the boy's surfer dead dad.
6) The entire movie spans less than 72h, but they all manage to sort up all their lives without really changing anything other than who-is-kissing-who.
7) Apparently, 16k views on youtube is enough to totally change a music producer's mind.
8) There are MANY pointless and readily solved subplots.
9) The lucid dream sequence is simply b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l.
10) I clapped when I saw Keanu Reeves.