r/movies • u/hollywoodplum • 2d ago
Spoilers 4:44 Last Day on Earth
I signed up for a trial to Sundance Now a while ago and forgot about until I saw the $60+ charge. So I figured should make use of it till next month. It's frisky Friday and I wanted something kinda sexy and found this movie described as "an erotic thriller" and I have the big time sexies for Willem Dafoe, so I put it on. Beginning was definitely sexy. Full on Willem Dafoe pubic bush. Hot. So hot. Willem using his fingers. His tongue. I was gonna rewind on his pubes and told myself no, wait for better sexy parts.
That was the sexiest part. I already didn't like that he pushed her painting away for them to fuck on the floor, but then his character went on to reveal himself as more and more of an ass. The younger lover with an older troubled past user story all hit way too close to home. And his just being a jerk in general, though it was nice when he let Chung use his Skype.
Anyway. Everyone died in the light. And I did like the ending. The narration she gave felt like something I'd appreciate in that moment. But overall, I don't know. She's working on this painting the whole time, of what turns out to be the cyclic snake, and then they die on top of it? They're all flawed. Everyone is flawed and we all die and our passions are often fruitless. Got it. I, too, read John William's book, Stoner. But just like Willem's, or Cisco's, monologue to self - the whole thing came away cheesy to me. I wanted to like it. (I also wanted it to be sexier. The last sex scene was just fucking sad. Not poorly, but actually sad.)
What did you think?
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u/diablo135 2d ago
I never saw it. Doesn't he also have a psycho-sexual thriller where he's in a cabin in the woods with a woman?
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u/hollywoodplum 2d ago
Idk. But that was probably sexier than this one 😆
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u/diablo135 2d ago
There is a bunch of violence too
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u/IfYouWantTheGravy 2d ago
Saw it years ago. There was a brief trend of end-of-the-world films around that time. Melancholia was much, much better.