Review: The stellar cast of ‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’ brings a painfully hip whodunnit to life.
). Alice’s new boyfriend, elder hunk Greg , doesn’t seem to care much either way. It’s an awkward situation, one Sophie probably should have warned Bee about. This early stretch of the film, as characters are introduced and the landscape is laid out and Bee tries to get her bearings, is sharply done, keenly observant of the particular vibrations of an uncomfortable moment. The performances are loose, creating a sense of extemporaneous ramble.
Eventually, though, some real plot has to start moving. Someone winds up dead during a round of the titular game, and everyone becomes a suspect. The distrust these young women have for one another—caused by slights, betrayals, furtive and unrequited crushes—become manifest in the form of accusation: you’ve always been a jealous psycho, you’ve always been a freak, and so on.
As this process unfolds, Reijn and DeLappe manage some moments of shivery suspense. Reijn makes expressive use of the house, tearing up staircases and down shadowy corridors with giddy abandon. But narratively, the film grows awfully repetitive, some version of the same argument taking place in one dark room after another. The bodies start piling up but still things feel static, as if the movie is spinning its wheels in the mud.
The comedy of the film is, I think, supposed to satirize the conflicting mores of contemporary hyper-awareness, all these rich fools trying to say the correct thing while doing lots of bad. To the movie’s credit, its political intentions—if they’re there at all—are not telegraphed.. But in that restraint there’s also a hint of apathy, as if the movie’s ultimate goal is to say nothing, and in that way say.
Maybe that is a good reflection of how Gen Z is feeling these days—or, at least, how a lot of Gen Z feels about the legacy wealth enjoyed so blithely by some of their peers, glimpsed through the terrible windows of TikTok and Instagram.might be a vibe I’m not supposed to fully pick up on, decrepit and Greg-aged as I am. From my oldster vantage point, though, I wish the film had more consequence, more genuine bite, a more refined shape.
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