 Thanks for checking out this movie review video Yes, I am gonna at some point do another film analysis video But I really need to dig in and have the time for that when I'm doing just the movie reviews. It's more of like I Want to be able to do something else while I'm watching the movie a little bit sometimes Or I just want to be able to relax and not have to sit down and like write things up But I do take a few little notes on my phone One of the big differences between the review and the analysis for me is gonna be the newer films I'm gonna do just do is review because I feel like I don't want to put spoilers out there So anyone that says movie review will have no spoilers anyone that says movie analysis is going to obviously have spoilers It's gonna be a very in-depth look at the film. So With that said here I go with a review of blue my mind and this one is available currently when this video goes up on shutter The shutter streaming service for horror if you're not familiar with that and you like horror You should definitely sign up just so you know the pricing is going to go up on May 8th I don't know what the pricing increases going to be but if you're in before May 8th It seems like you can stay at the old rate which the old rate right now is five dollars a month If you're doing monthly if you pay for a full year. It's four dollars a month. So definitely worth it If you watch one movie a month, it's 100% worth it and there's a lot of great stuff. So I love shutter That's why a lot of the stuff I'm pulling for like analysis and and reviews is from shutter. So anyway, so blue my mind This film is a 2017 release. So pretty new not even I mean potentially two years Maybe not even two years old and it's from Switzerland. I think I can say this is the first Swiss film I've ever seen I've seen movies from all over the place, but this may be my first Swiss film. I think it is So needless to say there are subtitles. It's not a language. That's hyper fast So if you're a slower reader like myself, it doesn't go by like super super quick like some Some do like French films for me French language goes faster than a lot of other ones But like Swiss apparently and like Swedish and Japanese when they're subtitled are slower So it's better for someone like me who's in a super fast reader. So just know that going into it if you haven't seen it So this film reminds me of a Bunch of films it's kind of from a subgenre of like a coming-of-age horror film And it reminds me of a bunch of other ones that I've seen and when I kind of like You know typed into my phone notes what films those were I was looking and I'm like these are all from different countries So it kind of seems like each of these countries has their own coming-of-age horror film that I've seen which is interesting So I'm I'll go over these. Oh, well, there's one. There's one overlap a lot of these are more recent ish though So it reminds me of raw the movie raw that's from France it reminds me of the movie ginger snaps, which is from Canada the movie teeth, which is from the United States The movie somewhat the movie let the right one one in from Sweden, which is actually It's close, but it's different age ranges because blue my mind is is like teen and it's like high school coming of age Whereas let the right one is is much younger. It's kind of like late I was gonna say late elementary school. No, I think more like middle school. So, yeah So it's a little bit different then also Carrie, which is from the United States You know Stephen King film and then to also to a degree the movie the lure that's from Poland Although that movie is kind of like Kind of crazy. I can say that I can recommend all of those honestly This is a cool subgenre if you're not familiar with it the whole coming-of-age horror subgenre is basically young people struggling with Becoming themselves, you know struggling with changes a lot of times It's very much tied into their bodies and the changes that young people go through as they grow up a lot of times It's tied into social issues trying to feel accepted wanting to feel a part of a group but at the same time in order to make that happen feeling like you're compromising yourself and just an issue of like as You change as you start to formulate who you're gonna be as an older person Feeling like you don't know yourself anymore Like feeling like you're not even human and a lot of the times with this subgenre that ends up turning into a creature of You know to varying degrees Because that whole thing like you don't necessarily feel human I mean think back to when you were young or if you're watching this in you in and you are young think about the Struggles you have and how you feel, you know not Not like right in your skin sometimes. I mean that that's definitely a thing So it's one of those types of films and for that reason since I've seen a bunch a lot like it. It doesn't it's not It doesn't tread new territory for me It feels kind of formulaic when it comes to those other films not saying that it like, you know Was is a knockoff or took from it? Because I'm not so sure that it did especially because it's from another country So like this is from Switzerland and all the other ones I mentioned are Pretty much from other countries except for Carrie and teeth. So So, yeah, it's Switzerland's own thing. They may not have any other films like this. This may be the one so I don't know So this is you know, the main character who did an amazing job was her name her name was Luna Weddler I Need to throw her name out there Luna Weddler She didn't outstanding job with her acting in this very very demanding role very demanding role All the acting in general was really good and there's a lot of younger people on this like I mean They looked like teenagers they may not have all been teenagers It may have been like 20-somethings who looked like they could be teenagers But nonetheless younger people and they didn't outstanding job There were some grown-ups, but not a whole lot They did a good job too But I just needed to call out Luna Weddler because she was the main character in this She has a lot of screen time and she's a very demanding role and she really tackled it extremely well The other thing is I feel like I should do a shout-out to the director, which sorry. I'm looking this up That's what I'm looking now Lisa Brulman She did a very good job with the directing. It looks really good directions great cinematography is great It sounds great good script The only thing for me is that it just doesn't seem new to me There isn't a whole lot of new to it The other thing is that I knew where that I could tell where this was going Within the first like 15 minutes of the film I was like, I know what's gonna happen at the end which is like a twist ending But I felt like it was less subtle than it should have been So but I'm not gonna talk more about that just because if you haven't seen this film I would encourage you to just check it out because it is good. It looks really good. It's very well-written It's just for me. It's nothing like super new and for some people like that's fine You know, you don't need something to be super new all the time. I like that personally, but I'm also not gonna knock a movie Completely just for for not bringing anything super new to the table And the thing is this film does bring some new stuff because situations are a little bit different How they pull things off practical facts, you know, all that type of stuff. It's kind of different So, you know, it's its own version of this subgenre and that's fine. It's good. Like I said, it's it's pretty well done So once again, you know, it's just kind of about I'm trying to understand yourself the changes you go through all that type of stuff I was pretty surprised watching this that it was a woman who at least she partially wrote it Lisa Brulman. She was one credit on writing it. The other person is a man Dominic look locker Loker lo see CAGR I was kind of surprised because it was very sexualized Like all the characters who are young were very very sexualized the guys even to agree a degree and You know, that just kind of surprised me because usually that's more of a male thing in film Especially horror films, but you know, anyone can really end up doing that and it made sense Because it's about youth today, you know, there there's a lot of pressure to be sexualized There is you know, it's a societal thing. It's a societal thing. So it made sense This is kind of like a very slow burn. It doesn't develop super fast, but that's not a problem with it I actually think it's a strength because it kind of builds things slowly There are a few moments in there where it feels like it the pacing is a little bit off And it's taking a little bit too much time to get to the next point and maybe they've kind of iterated Certain points a little too much, but it's not that bad with those things and then it's very very minuscule Miniscule overall, I like it. I think it's well done pacing is for the most part pretty good And yeah, it's a slow burn and I think it works It really plays at also another theme of the whole duality of loose versus prude, you know If someone's engaging in sexual activity or they're totally abstaining from it or anywhere in between But basically there is no in between at least if you're female. It's that whole big Issue of if you're a woman and you're Or I'm sorry if you're a girl not yet a woman and you're trying to participate in any sort of sexual activity or you're Showing any sexuality You are automatically on the loose end of the spectrum. You just get pushed right over there But if you you don't really have interest then you're pushed over to the other side where it's like you're a total prude You're you know so uptight and stuck up and you think you're better than everyone and you're you know so it's this it plays very well on that whole issue of The struggle of I would like to be here, but I would also like to be here So how about if I go here, but then I just get pushed over here So it you know and and I think that's an important theme um Yeah So that's actually kind of it the last thing I had written on there was that I saw it coming I saw the ending coming so that kind of like was a downer because when I first When things were first telegraphed to me early on in the film I was like I'm pretty sure I know exactly how this is gonna end, but I hope I'm wrong I always hope I'm wrong with that stuff because it's it's fun to be surprised. It's awesome to get twists, which you know It's not a hundred percent predictable. So there were some like mini twists in there. So, you know But it looks good. Um, well written well directed I recommend it. It's a it's a fun flick I think out of five stars With half stars counting I would give it Three and a half. I think I give it a three and a half. It is solid. It is good Um, it definitely seems realistic too. Well, I mean it's horror. So it's not a hundred percent realistic But it feels realistic for the environment it created for the world it created. So That's not easy to do in my opinion. So good stuff Anyway, people check that out. That's obviously a recommendation for me blew my mind. Like I said currently on shutter I'm not sure if there's any other way to get it. I think That may be The first streaming release for it in the united states, uh, maybe even the first release in general Actually, no because on through netflix dvd. I would be able to get it I had looked at that and I was like, oh, I would be able to get it through netflix dv So strike that But anyway, check out blew my mind also just check out anything on shutter It's awesome. 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