Highlights
‘Blink Twice’ starring Naomi Acki, Channing Tatum, Christian Slater, Simon Rex, Adria Arjona and helmed by Zoë Kravitz follows a compelling psychological narrative about a millionaire Tech CEO and his infamous island parties that is more layered and deadly than it seems on the outside. Set in the premise of an isolated island, ‘Blink Twice’ is a brainfood that redacts the themes of abuse of power, female solidarity and the aftermath of being polluted by toxic patriarchy.
‘Blink Twice’ Plot and Review
Frida, a nail artist focusing on animalistic designs who hustles as a cocktail waitress for exclusive, highly influential parties. She and her friend Jess crash one of Slater King, a famous party head CEO of a Tech company and meets with him. The CEO takes a liking to Frida which seems very organic at the beginning, invites her to his Island retreat along with his childhood friends, a young tech genius, his guard and three other women who join the crew to a beautiful island.
The island is phone free and tech free with unlimited drinks, food and the crew initially enjoy their time together. The women are allotted individual rooms with a customised fragrance made out of an exotic flower that is only available on the island. It is only when Jess starts having visions that make her sense something weird and indicates the same to Frida, who convinces her all is good. But does the Island hold secrets beyond Frida and the women’s knowledge? What happened in the night that made Jess fear for her life and the others? This triggers the characters into a thrilling and psychological tunnel full of disturbing secrets and abuse.
Zoë Kravitz makes a stirring set up that is a perfect blend of summer vacation and eerily isolated, tech free surrounding that seemingly balanced place. What lies behind the attractive and beautiful make belief idea runs through themes of power holders and the exploitation. Her strength as an artist of correlating metaphors into visuals works to her advantage as a director too as seen in scenes where the lights dimming out consciously placed right after a murder or how indication of bright colours sinking down slowly as the film progresses to a darker tone.
‘Blink Twice’ has a Utopian layer that introduces wealth, purity and all the sophistication that comes with it in the beginning to the slow sinking of colours that are joyful seen in the walls as red, yellow, green, blue but doesn’t matter once the darkness consumes the happiest of minds and makes it a Dystopian world to live and forget.
Channing Tatum and Naomi Acki own their roles to the brim and channelise the deeper and darkest parts of their characters, which is revealed in the later part of the film yet peaks out in the manner they carry themselves. Adria Arjona, Simon Rex, Christian Slater and Levon Hawke have unique tendencies and characteristic quirks that are easily resonating throughout the movie, be it related to the metaphorical element or the characters and their egos based on their profession.
Cinematography by Adam Newport- Berra captures stunning elements and aspects like excitement, luxury, predictions of bloodshed through a switch of gradient, especially in the later part of the movie when the characters are all naked and their roles transparent.
The Verdict
Zoë Kravitz puts up a fabulous projection of the ways of the power holders and men who basically run the world and how women are exploited in the guise of appreciation and gold coated derision. Definitely a worthy and deep watch for a stirring storyline that ends with the domination and ruling of the wounded and oppressed, something to take away from a rather chilling narrative.
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