Mandy
What can I say, the hype is real... Mandy is a visually stunning movie. The premise is nothing new but the way it was executed makes it awesome. I was hesitant about watching it because I really don´t care about Nicholas Cage but he kills in this. Talking about redemption, huh?
So Red and Mandy (who as far as I´m concerned it´s a walking talking poem in the verge of autism) live a peaceful life in a cabin in the woods in a very surreal 1983. Until the day Mandy was walking down a road and a very crazy and high cult leader passed her by in a car and decided he wanted to have her. His followers call for a pair of grunting gimp dudes that kidnap both Mandy and Red to the cult´s place. There, they drug Mandy, and Jeremiah, the crazy googly cult leader dude, expects her to fall madly in love with him but she sees through his ridiculousness and laughs at his face and at his very small and limp dick. This way she wins the chance of being burned alive in front of Red who, in the end, is left alive because the killers are retarded.
You all can guess what comes next. An understandably pissed off Red goes after them one by one in a very satisfactory way. The killing scenes are gory but not too much, the overall photography is simply amazing and the soundtrack, by the late Jóhann Jóhannsson, is incredible.
I laughed at the bathroom scene and at the "you ripped my shirt!" scene but, come on... It´s Nicholas Cage. You have to laugh at some point. However, his performance was brutal and kudos to him for bouncing back.
If you have the chance to watch it at the cinema, do it. If not, get it anyway because it´s awesome.
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