have you all out there ever seen a movie that you see at a particular point in your
life you feel like the film's just speaking to you and it kind of hits you to your core
well i recently saw a movie like that what's going on everybody and welcome back to my channel movie
files elliott back again with a brand new movie review and today we're talking about a film that
made a very big splash at the film festivals last year we're talking about the new romantic comedy
drama by the name of the worst person in the world which i got a chance to check out courtesy of neon
really excited to share my thoughts with you all and let you know why i think this film was worth
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this film once you've seen it what did you think about the narrative the performances the direction
what chapters were your favorite what were some things that didn't work for you all and everything
in between let's talk about it in the comments below so i just want to get this out of the way
i'm gonna start off my positives as i always do i want to talk about the filmmaking of this movie
starting off with our director joachim trier in his collaboration with a cinematographer casper
tewksen was incredible to me it felt like at points i was watching a documentary because
everything just feels so real and honest and the way that they use the close-ups the
movement of the camera just felt so perfect the way they kind of was able to capture
the relatability of these characters to me was just a great job from both again the filmmaker
the cinematographer the score the look the feel the essence of the film really kind of worked for
me in this movie but speaking of things that worked for me i want to transition into the
performances starting off with our supporting characters our main leads to love ventures i'm
talking about axel and evin who were incredible i found myself rooting for both characters
because i understand how our main character julie could be in love with these two people
at the particular points in her life and they they both did a great job with our main lead but also
individually speaking they both get a moment to shine i thought they were absolutely fantastic but
speaking of moment to trying uh and before i talk about elite actors i just want to put a photo on
the screen now i mean come on this this she looks almost like i did i'm talking about the lead of
this movie who goes by the name of julie played by anna riends who i have to say was one of the most
relatable characters i've seen in the movie in a very long time we follow her at these particular
points in her life and the movie is broken into 12 chapters as she's trying to figure out what to do
in college how to navigate her relationships how to navigate her relationships with her
her family like her father womanhood life and death just to name a few and i felt like renata
played all of those things perfectly in my opinion the title may be a bit misleading and it's kind
of purposeful because throughout the film we're watching julie making these decisions that she
feels as though these decisions are making her the worst person in the world but it doesn't make
her the worst person in the world it just makes her human and that's what makes her so relatable
she can be fun and happy she's exciting hopeful but she can also be mean and rude to make bad
regretful decisions but then again that's what makes her so relatable she's a human being and
we all make mistakes we all have our highs and lows and that's what i really loved about what
she was able to bring this role and i thought that she was absolutely fantastic in this movie one of
my favorite performances i've seen in a long time but i want to kind of transition a little
bit into the story without giving too much away as i have mentioned this is broken into 12 chapters
including an epilogue some of the chapters are a little bit longer than the others but then again
i felt like it was so brilliant how they were able to weave in this narrative and tell this two-hour
romantic comedy drama and there were some moments within this four year span that we see through
julie's life that kind of stood out to me without giving too much away i think of chapters like
chapter two or chapter four and five eight eleven twelve so i mean pretty much all the chapters
right but no all seriousness i really felt like the topics that were tackled in those chapters
touched me in such a way on a personal level i literally felt like i was in her shoes also i want
to kind of highlight some of my favorite moments in the film when i'll get into the specifics there
are two moments where the creative choices were just so brilliant there's a scene where we have
time that stops and there's another moment where our characters are in and indulging themselves in
drugs and it's just those two scenes to me again just speaks to the filmmaking of this movie but
lastly i don't want to leave out this movie hit me to an emotional level that i did not expect
coming and i don't know if it had to do with i was watching it like at 12 at night i was watching it
at home on my computer it was a snowstorm and the older i've gotten the more emotional i've gotten
with certain films especially when i can relate to the characters but there's a moment in chapter 11
and 12 where i was just broken in pieces and when you all see the film you'll know exactly what i'm
talking about so i laughed i cried i related to the character this is such a great film but i do
have some criticisms i want to kind of share with you all this film does clock in about two hours
and if you include the eight minutes of credits two hours and eight minutes roughly and at no
point never bored i was never not in the story but i do feel like certain chapters were more integral
to the story and other chapters didn't didn't feel like it needed to be there and they were just kind
of could have been cut or combined into one big chapter but that's just a small nitpick my only
really big gripe and it's really not a big gripe is how the film ends and what i mean by that is
the ending makes sense to the narrative what they were kind of convey which is day-to-day everyday
life you just move on with life but there were and this is the epilogue i'm speaking of there were
the previous two chapters chapters 11 and 12 had such emotional satisfying conclusions that i wish
that we could have found a way to have that in an epilogue and that blog's not bad i just felt like
the prior moments were more emotionally impactful for me and i would have loved to have that impact
be the last moments of the film so that's kind of my only issue that i have with the film before i
give you all my overall score of this movie if you haven't already make sure to like the
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overall this story about the life of a young woman navigating her struggles to find her career path
love family womanhood life and death was one of the most relatable films i've seen
in recent memory like i said this film hit me at a particular point in my life that i can really
kind of resonate with the character and kind of really relate to the character and it may not
resonate with you or sit with you the way it did with me but i'm really excited to kind of revisit
the film to kind of see where i stand with it but as of right now this is a great film and i highly
recommend you all give it a watch with that being said i'm going to give the worst person in the
world a 4.5 out of 5. now as i'm recording this video it has hit international markets but it will
be available domestically in the us on february 4th in la and in new york but then on february
11th it will have a wider release and if you get the opportunity to see it again it might not be
for everyone i feel like this film kind of hits at a certain age group like when you're in your late
20s early 30s but i think people that can that are older than that can relate to it and even people
that are younger but i really enjoyed this film again that's why i gave it a 4.5 out of 5. but
again that's just my thoughts i want to know your thoughts once you've seen the film again pros cons
favorite chapters what moments resonated with you what moments didn't work for you let's talk
about it all in the comments below if you stuck around to this point of review i appreciate you
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