Film actor Ryan Gosling tries his hand at writing and directing with Lost River, a dark, dreamy fairy tale pulsating with emotion. Taking place in the brokein-down, abandoned city of Lost River, the story centered around Bill, a single mother of two, who relucantly accepts a strange job that takes place in the world of macabre, doing so in an effort to save her house and keep her family together. Her teenage son Bones tries to help his mother by stripping homes for raw materials, drawling the ire of a local psychopath that has basically staken claim to the abandoned area. Lost River is without quest a mess, being full of half-baked thematic ideas that never fully develop. Fortuntely, Lost River is the best type of mess, being an evocative and impressionistc display of raw emotion. Beautiful, stylish, and excessive, Lost River is a film that is begging to be a midnight movie, with its strange, exaggerated reality that it creates, something that can only be described as a dark fairy teale. Ryan Gosling's various cinematic inspirations are very potent and prevalent trhoughout Lost River, and while there is without quest too much unmotivated stylisthic choices, Lost River does create an intoxicating atmoshpere and mood. At its core, Lost River is a story of survival, with Billy and Bone each navigating through an extremely dangerous world that sees them have to fight for surivial, scratching and crawling to have a better life. Half-baked but interesting, Lost River almost feels like an alegory for the inherent problems with capitalism, as we see weathy banker, played beautifully by Ben Mendelsohn, taking advantage of Billy, introducing her to this violent and sexual world. Lost River isn't a "good" movie but it's a visceral experience that pulsates with romantic melancholoy and hopefulness, making it the most interesting type of mess.
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June 2023
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