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A young woman struggles with an anxiety disorder after dropping out of school.
Pink Skies Ahead
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18 Oct 2020
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AFI 2020: film #6
"oh my god, i haven’t seen you since 12th grade, how are you?"
"well i’m in this panic disorder group so... not good"it brings me no joy to write these words, but this was distractingly bad. every other line of dialogue is jarring and out of place as it lunges awkwardly back and forth from a slapstick comedy to a melodramatic personal piece. the lead character is a mix between lady bird and enid from ghost world, but completely lacks depth and consistency from scene to scene. it feels like a student film stretched like taffy on one of those weird pulley machines at the state fair, the writing being pushed to the absolute limit…
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if i were a critic, i'd probably hate this, but i am just a 23 year old woman with an anxiety disorder who is in love with lewis pullman and so i loved this
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i've suffered from anxiety my whole life and over the past couple of years, i've tried to work on it and somehow have not had any panic attacks in almost eight months, but there's an anxiety scene in this that feels so real, that i actually felt like i was going to throw up. i need to stop doing this to myself.
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This is a difficult film to get right because you have to nail a few things. Is this “Comedy-centric” movie funny? Not every joke lands, but it does an impressive job at providing a nice balance of brash and subtle humor. The “fork” jab has to be the best line in the movie. Does the film have heart? My answer is absolutely, as it ends up being a film dealing with important themes. Jessica Barden’s Winona is dealing with serious anxiety, and that is something that can lead to a panic attack. I know this first-hand because my wife takes medicine for her anxiety, and she has been dealing with this for…
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It’s not often that mental health issues can be combined with comedy as well as it is here. Pink Skies Ahead is very much a “new adult” film, the characters and dialogue are both rather cringeworthy, I think on purpose, and if it weren’t handled in such a self-aware way then it probably wouldn’t work, but it does and is actually a very entertaining little movie. The lead actress, Jessica Barden, is perfect for these kinda roles. I’ve seen her in a few things and she has this quirk that’s very well suited to the characters she’s chosen to play so far in her career, she’s very good here as the annoying valley girl type. The handling of anxiety and…
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lewis pullman is so perfect most beloved prince i need him to be my boyfriend more than i need air /srs
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really liked this, Jessica Barden is amazing but when isn't she? I feel like mental illness is something that's quite difficult to portray on screen but she nailed it here and she nailed portraying anxiety in The New Romantic despite that subject not being the focus. Winona and I are a lot alike and seeing myself quite literally on screen is always scary but it makes me understand myself so much more!
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AFI Fest 2020: Movie #8
"Have you been inspired lately?"
Personal filmmaking is often the most powerful, though sometimes in translating our experiences onto the page, their significance gets lost entirely. The most intimate, transformative experiences of our lives can read as something so minuscule that the audience wonders why it's there at all. I make no assumptions about Kelly Oxford's personal life, but Pink Skies Ahead feels like that exact scenario. I'm happy for those who connected with this, but I didn't click with any part of it. There's hardly a plot here. The anxiety "storyline" wasn't a storyline at all, and was rather just another concept haphazardly mentioned and poorly connected to what we had actually been watching…
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Is it a really good movie? No
Did the main character annoyed the fuck out of me? Yes
Am I crying because I felt seen? Absolutely yes -
(** AFI Film Festival 2020 : FILM #1 **)
Kinda wish this was just a straight drama, because the comedy was stale but all the panic disorder stuff was very good!
Unfortunately the movie was 80% comedy.