{"id":10948,"date":"2019-09-10T16:25:23","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T06:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/?p=10948"},"modified":"2019-09-08T14:44:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T04:44:28","slug":"animals-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/animals-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Animals &#8211; movie review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How long can you party for? When is it time to stop the music and take greater care and responsibility for the rest of your life?<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11014\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Animals-01.jpg?resize=560%2C354\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Animals-01.jpg?w=560&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Animals-01.jpg?resize=300%2C190&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><br \/>\nLaura (Holliday Grainger) and Tyler (Alia Shawkat) have been flatmates and besties for 10 years. They maraud around the streets of Dublin, rejecting the expectations that bombard modern women and acting purely on desire. Laura finds a guy \u2013 rising star pianist Jim (Fra Fee) \u2013 and she&#8217;s prepared to settle down with him. But Tyler isn&#8217;t supportive and does everything she can to circumvent the union and ensure the best friends remain as tight as ever.<\/p>\n<p>Based on a 2014 novel by Emma Jane Unsworth, Sophie Hyde directs Unsworth\u2019s screenplay. A slow start gives way to an intriguing game of cat-and-mouse where the outcome is never certain.<\/p>\n<p>The two leads do an excellent job fleshing out and inhabiting their characters. One is bold and brassy &#8230; and beneath the bravado, fearful and lonely. The other has a severe case of writers\u2019 block, is easily distracted and led astray. The constant is confusion and chaos. Around them are a colourful array of secondary characters \u2013 Laura\u2019s younger married sister Jean (Amy Malloy) and their parents, Laura\u2019s boyfriend Jim and a new found poet scholar Marty (Dermot Murphy) who, too, likes to live on the wild side.<\/p>\n<p>Animals takes a look at hedonism from a female perspective and how a relationship between two gal pals can be romantic, complex, tragic and strange. The representation on film is fierce and fiery. I found the amount of alcohol consumption staggering, let alone the drugs. These influences hardly gave the girls the highs they were looking for.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\"  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_73430\"  width=\"560\" height=\"315\"  data-origwidth=\"560\" data-origheight=\"315\"  data-relstop=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_FN_zr4rQzY?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe>\n<p>The longer the movie went, the more I appreciated it; but Animals won\u2019t be to everyone\u2019s tastes because it is an anti-establishment type of movie. 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