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izi’s Random Movie Review

Greener Grass, 2019 dir. Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe

This post contains spoilers.

"This movie feels like Gerwig's Barbie but amped up x10 with a lot more to think about."

Greener Grass (2019) was a movie that caught my attention through its brightly colored poster and continued to pique my interest through its black comedy. This absurd and macabre storyline follows a neighborhood of individuals, mainly focusing on the one Jill Davies in her effortless sacrifice to please.

The entire movie sets itself up like a stereotypical role-assigned American movie, but as the storyline continues, clearly objectifies the roles that a character can play. The roles between media-centric men and women are battled roles. The children in this movie seem to harness more understanding of mature comprehension, conversation, and protest to the world around them than the braces-wearing adults who struggle to compete with one another.

Jill has a loving family, but due to the influences and harsh struggles to please the relationships around her, she slowly finds parts of herself being stripped away. The awkward conversations give into why Jill is so weak to give into the demands of those around her without much question. There are lots of confusing dynamics when it comes to intimacy that Jill struggles with, from those with her husband, her son, and her peers and friends (especially that of her friend Lisa Wetbottom). Jill fears the perceptions that others have of her becoming actualized in a less-than-perfect way. To deflect this, she spares the feelings of others and it leads to her feeling more discomforted in her own skin. She has to remember so much about those around her to make sure that she's always watching over her shoulder, that she doesn't even realize the parts of her that she's losing, both in a metaphorical self and when an impersonator comes right from under her nose to take over her life.

This movie feels like Gerwig's Barbie but amped up x10 with a lot more to think about. There are many layers of symbolism that all connect to spell out the competitive nature of their community. Jill falls heavily into the influence of others and it causes her to ruin her own life. At the end of it all, the actualization that she now realizes for herself allows her to see so many things around her that others can't, things that she has been blind about for years. Is there a betterment of life living in ignorance and feeding into competition with others?

Lisa and Jill demonstrate such an interesting relationship between two women. Upon first meeting them, we see Jill give up her new baby to her. Throughout the movie, we watch the two slowly switch places. Jill swapped out due to her submission to others' perception, and Lisa's manipulation of this weakness as she tries to manifest what she has always wanted to appear superior in her community (despite lots of what she flaunts from children, her home, and other parts of her lifestyle being fabricated from lies that no one has challenged or caught on to).

Like any movie I will review, there is always a lot more to analyze. There's more to go deeper into about the relationship Jill and Lisa have, there's more to dive into about the power dynamic children hold over the adults in this story (and how these protests to power lead to such differences in characters between Julian and Bob as children growing up and changing into people). This movie was such an inspiring watch when it comes to symbolic theming through a variety of subtle to direct approaches. The ambiance of this movie was such a refreshing watch, and I think DeBoer and Luebbe have a fantastic experimentation of chemistry together.

8/10

Check out this review and more on my Letterboxd

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Luther Vandross Documentary, ‘Luther: Never Too Much’

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you've no idea how excited i am for this film

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PEDRO PASCAL photographed for Deadline at the Sundance Film Festival (January 19,2024). ph. Michael Buckner

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pedro’s laugh is such a serotonin boost.

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DYLAN O'BRIEN Sundance: IMDb — Monica Schipper (2024)

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The Culkin/Pascal “Beef” came up in some of the interviews at the Freaky Tales premiere, as KC also has a film opening at Sundance.

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Dylan O'Brien talking "Ponyboi" at Sundance Film Festival, 2024.

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im literally so excited for new Sebastian content than isn't just crumbs like I think we're gonna get some really good stuff from Sundance and atp I need it cause ya girl is going through it

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I think it's really great that you found a place where you feel.

Ghostlight (2024) dir. Alex Thompson, Kelly O’Sullivan

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-I'm so unhappy -I don't care.

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Sundance Film Festival

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VICTORIA PEDRETTI Photographed by Casey Nedelka at the "Ponyboi" Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 20th 2024

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PEDRO PASCAL 2024 Sundance Film Festival (January 18, 2024)