With her feature film debut, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, Ana Lily Amirpour has established herself as an exciting new director when it comes to beguiling images and hypnotic moods goes. Her next work, The Bad Batch, which you can stream on Netflix by subscription, takes you from the ghost town at night to the heated wasteland.
With a strong line-up of stars (including Jason Momoa, Jim Carrey and Keanu Reeves) in quirky roles, her second feature film has also become a crazy trip that mixes drug raves and cannibal horror into an image frenzy.
The Bad Batch fascinates Netflix primarily as an audiovisual experience
In Amirpour’s second feature film, it takes less than five minutes for the protagonist Arlen (Suki Waterhouse) to lose an arm and a leg, which ends up in the pan of wild cannibals. The people in the film’s dystopian vision of the future are referred to as “Bad Batches”. Wild lepers left to their own devices in the middle of the desert.
Despite the shocking opening, Arlen becomes one of them and immerses himself in the people’s idiosyncratic rituals. The director uses her sci-fi scenario with details like euphoric rave parties and failed drug experiences especially for her audiovisually bewitching handwriting.
While The Bad Batch features well-known faces like Keanu Reeves and Jim Carrey in completely bizarre roles, Amirpour creates a never really tangible film in The Bad Batch with trashy dance-pop from the 90s and whipping electro beats of the present.
Anyone who can break away from conventional film stories and does not expect classic dramaturgy will be rewarded with an unusual trip from the insider tip on Netflix, which towards the end even leads to the Plea for more empathy and tolerance becomes.
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Star Trek is one of the most important science fiction series ever. But after the beginning of the new millennium, the franchise slid into crisis. Attempts to restart split the fans – in the cinema as well as on television. Still, Star Trek is as good as it’s been in years.
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In the new episode of the Moviepilot podcast, we explain why you should give the almost 60-year-old sci-fi series a chance and recommend three new series that are definitely worth watching.
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