Stuck

Josh Lewis4.0

RIP Stuart Gordon whose gnarly absurdist body-horror sensibility and background in provocative, political theater is so infused into this contained low-budget true crime thriller that it's basically unrecognizable from how any normal person would have made it. Instead it's a truly vicious, farcical horror movie where at every opportunity for someone to make a choice that helps/doesn't hurt someone else, class-based precarity stops them from doing so. It is genuinely insane that this is based on a real murder.

Bunny🐰🪓3.5

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shookone4.5

Stuart Gordon gets right to the core, puts social bleakness into close-ups and formulates the whole cynicism in genre garments. a nasty crime and punishment tale, one focussing on the central part of repression. the garage as black hole, a blind spot of our soul. one that doesn't clean itself, oh well.how smart the construct is shows that it decidedly includes bureaucratic institutions aswell - police, job center or hospital, you'll find racism, blind eyes, fake correctness and dog-eat-dog-mentality everywhere. "it's all about the advancement, baby!" besides that we're always close to our protagonist and become her accomplices. the psychologization of Mena Suvaris character is never forged, always conclusive. Stuck takes a good look on systemically enhanced egocentrism and social injustice, wraps it into a decent entertainment package that is never light-footed. even if the purifying carthasis is a frisky derision, the tragedy is always shining through. more than the spectator might acknowledge.