M.F.A.

great music. visuals, editing, camera-work, show promise. interesting subject. writing serves admirably. the narrative 'art' aspect is lacking. skye's (secondary char) character is sorely under-developed. there's only about 1½ characters worth of depth in the whole thing. the student council scenes induced cringe; bad extras. good start. second half gets a bit wishy-washy. underwhelming ending. petered out, rather than escalating. needed higher stakes, more tension, the drama became lifeless. action was mostly uninteresting. it needed to be more consequential. you never get concerned about... read more

alternate plot: noelle shows up to the party just to get duped and laughed at. nobody ever touches her and skye treats her like air. she tries to make a move on the asian guy but he just says "what the fuck?". because yeah, girls like that exist. it's not easy for all women to pick guys up. it's not easy for all women to bring a guy into bed. there are women who are beautiful, confident, and strong, but they still get turned down. they get teased, led on, just to be abandoned 10 minutes later. and i want to see more movies about women like me. i'm so tired of rape-revenge movies. how about... read more