Got your coffee? Frizzy J here with another movie. This week we've got Raw, a French movie from 2016 about, well, cannibalism. Pull up a chair, fill a mug, and let's dive in.
Raw is… wild. In one hand, we have a stomach churning, but not terribly frightening film about a girl going off to a college with some extreme hazing traditions, after which she finds within herself a desire for raw meat. As I've said, it is a French movie, so I do not know how legal such things are in France and Europe. Here, charges are leveled for that sort of thing. Now, on the other hand, we have a sort of coming of age story about adversity and not fitting in.
The acting was very good in this movie. Everyone behaved believably, the translations of the spoken lines were well done (It is in French, after all), and the interpersonal dynamics were great. I hated the soundtrack, I will admit. It was all pop music. The scenes with blood and gore lived up to the title's namesake with excellently realistic blood and wounds.
Parts of the movie were slow, and I often asked myself why the family communicated so shittily with each other. This became much more understandable after the final twist, which was superb. If you don't like subtitles, though, this is not for you. The only English is in one of the pop songs. I didn't know it.
This was worth a watch. I preferred the movie Hunger, if you can find that. But if you want to watch Raw, it is readily available on Netflix.
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