At the core this movie is about the horrors of the modeling world and what happens to the "disposable" women of this world.
Elle Fanning plays Jesse, a 16-year-old would-be model. She has beauty and natural talent which of course puts her in the cross-hairs of current models Gigi and Sarah and the obsession of make-up artist Ruby (Jena Malone).
As Jesse gets deeper and deeper into this world and more and more narcissistic the thin veneer of everyone's sanity (or if there was any) peels away. Ruby tries to rape Jesse, but is rebuffed. So Ruby heads to her other job as a morgue make-up artist where she violates the corpse of a woman.
When Ruby comes home to the house she is letting Jesse stay at she pushes Jesse into an empty pool where she breaker her leg. Ruby, Gigi, and Sarah descend on her and butcher her. Gigi and Sarah eat her and Ruby bathes in her blood.
And it gets weirder from there.
The film is arty and maybe a little too long, but a fun little descent into madness.
Watched: 31
New: 24
1 comment:
Yeah, I saw it a couple years ago, and thought it was pretty good but was missing something. Like the skinny models, the story/plot needed more meat on its bones. Visually stimulating, though.
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