Watched this at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.
Wow, this one was REALLY boring.
Filmmaker Susanna Fogel takes an interesting story about Reality Winner and the controversial political situations surrounding her, yet, creates an unsatisfying, annoying, and repetitive coming-of-age drama with annoying characters, poor humor and basic narrative structure.
Throughout the production, costumes, and the presentation feels cheap. The narrative does try to take a new fresh approach to the whistleblower stories but the poor dialogue, unfunny humor and uninteresting characters really didn't offer much to say. The character of Reality Winner is interesting especially with what she has done and her background but the movie really doesn't do a good job on capturing her life. It rather feels like a cheap lifetime movie.
The performances are okay but not great. Emilia Jones is trying her best and Jones does have some good moments, but unfortunately the bulk of the movie runs dry and Jones couldn't save the movie. The direction was unfocused, the dialogue is poor, and many of the moments were repetitive which makes it REALLY boring.
"Reality" (2023) might not be amazing but it did a better job on analyzing the character of Reality Winner. Here, this one fails.
