Justin Chang reviews Yorgos Lanthimos’s film “Kinds of Kindness,” starring Jesse Plemons, Emma Stone, and Willem Dafoe.
From the start, he has been chillingly consistent. So many of Lanthimos’s movies play like arch behavioral experiments, conducted in a laboratory filled with slow-acting nerve gas. His characters drain all feeling from their faces and speak in flat, disaffected tones, as if they had been treated with emotion-numbing anesthetic. And yet, in that numbness, a kind of subversion persists; the abused do not succumb mindlessly to their abusers.
It can’t be a coincidence that the most significant characters in the first story all have names that begin with the letter “R,” and I haven’t even mentioned Rita , whom Raymond effectively hires to take Robert’s place. In Lanthimos’s view, we are all interchangeable, which is to say replaceable. Much of what we see in the first section will recur, at some point, in later ones: a closeup of a woman’s bare heels, an abortion disguised as a miscarriage, and, yes, a grisly vehicular death.
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