So Lily tells Tim that Amanda did send her a letter from prison. It’s here that Amanda lets Tim know that lily has a proposition for him. But this movie has been at the top of my MUST SEE list for over half a year now. They meet under the pretense of hanging out and having a casual tutoring session, but Amanda knows that her mother has paid Lily to socialize with Amanda. I think you are thinking it deeper and extremely more complex than the director and the writer of the script actually did when they shot it. It was about a person with a peculiar brain / psychological disorder that disallowed her access to her feelings. filming 'Thoroughbred, "Q&A: 'Thoroughbreds' Director Cory Finley", "Focus Features Mounts 'Thoroughbred' For $5M: Sundance", "The Thoroughbreds Teaser Poster and Photos! Sometime later, Lily encounters Tim, who now works as a restaurant valet. At the end of chapter 3, Lily and Amanda find themselves discussing the demise Lily’s father. And chapter 1 only gets more weird at the end when Amanda checks in on Lily’s internship, which apparently didn’t happen. Yet despite all these comparisons, Finley has created a film that feels original and alive. He’ll use rack focus to snap us to attention, or alternate between sound effects and silence to suggest violence in a way that’s far more disturbing than actually showing it to us. It communicates, pretty accurately with what the move really is all about at least directionally. My favorite quote from this conversation with Tim was when Amanda explained to Lily why she cracked Tim in the head, “You cannot hesitate. And I have a pile more interesting deep dives into Heathers. Honeymoon’ is the name of the horse that was slaughtered by Amanda. What?) One night, Lily and Amanda are watching a film at Lily's home when Lily reveals she spiked Amanda's drink with Rohypnol so she could stab Mark to death and frame Amanda. Just regarding Anon Yelchin’s character, I’d say one of his thematic functions is to represent class divide, because the way the girls are able to hold power over him with zero social consequences is rather telling. Amanda starts the movie as someone that feels nothing, and moves to the woman that feels everything. “Thoroughbreds” may reach the finish line a little quickly and neatly, but at least it never turns soft and nice. But what did the letter say? And the Superego that ensures narcissistic satisfaction. Like heart attack level good. The second dream again showed Amanda as a victim (trying to correct the guilt Amanda feels?) She's also on Twitter @christylemire and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/christy.lemire2. And they vanish into the internet. You can sense their personality traits starting to combine to the point where their shared consciousness becomes capable of carrying it out. ", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thoroughbreds_(2017_film)&oldid=984761523, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 21 October 2020, at 23:09. Thoroughbreds follows high-school student Lily (Taylor-Joy) and her emotionless friend Amanda (Cooke) as they scheme to kill Lily's stepfather (Sparks) via a contract with a drug dealer (Yelchin). One thing that is really interesting about the shooting style at the opening of the movie is how Cory Finley uses a standard shot then reverse-shot dialogue technique in order to place Amanda and Lily on opposite sides of the frame and to separate them as much as humanly possible in the frame. Because she was going to frame Amanda for the murder of her father. I believe the director has stated that the girls couldn’t complete the murder individually. Amanda walks into this amazing house and just wanders through it until Lily arrives. Thoroughbreds is a 2017 American dark comedy thriller film written and directed by Cory Finley, in his directorial debut. This is all we will say about this topic.) With that, Lily heads up to where her father is working out, and stabs him to death. There is not a honeymooner. Did she remember the forgotten innocence of her childhood? (being impulsive is a trait of both antisocial and borderline disorders). We have a step-father that is our own foil at all, and our arch villain. “I’m a skilled imitator…” answer’s Amanda as the drink begins to take effect. And I rise out of my body, and I stare down at our whole suburb. I like a nice rambley review myself, and I think you touched on quite a few important points. There’s nothing more to say about it than that. And I get that I don’t work for most people. But we know the moment is fairly important seeing as though there is a knife there in the scene. Lily impulsively prepares to kill Mark herself but is talked out of it by Amanda. [6][8], Principal photography began on May 9, 2016,[9] in the Massachusetts towns of Cohasset, Tewksbury, Scituate, Westwood, and Wellesley,[10] concluding on June 5, 2016, 14 days before Yelchin died. Thoroughbreds is a 2017 American dark comedy thriller film[4] written and directed by Cory Finley, in his directorial debut. What is a dying honeymoon? I mean, you have one character that feels everything. Amanda talks her out of it due to her current emotional state, but promises to stand around the corner with a knife at the ready in case her step-father becomes abusive. But its a start. This a movie you’ll probably want to take a pass on. Ok… my bad. You were off on a few things, the girls are in highschool. But what does it mean? And Lily feels everything. (want a deeper dive just into the color meanings of the different characters? In chapter 1 we really have nothing to go on as to why this relationship is happening. We have a step-father that is our own foil at all, and our arch villain. The script, which Finley had expected to be produced as a stage play, was instead acquired for production as a film by companies B Story (Nat Faxon, Jim Rash, and Kevin J. Walsh) and June Pictures. But before either of them has said a word to the other, composer Erik Friedlander’s percussive score puts us on edge, especially with his reliance on slow and steady bass drum. And a mother that gives us her only dialogue from the bowels of a tanning bed. The film had its world premiere under its original title Thoroughbred at the Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2017, and was released on March 9, 2018, by Focus Features. But we don’t know anything other than that at the opening. The small cast, the tone, the crazy ending… all sort of has the feeling of Welcome the Stranger. Definitely not for everyone. [15], On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 86% based on 149 reviews, with an average rating of 7.23/10. If you have not seen the movie thoroughbreds, oh man are you missing out. Lily is a solipsitic narcissist who either lacks empathy or chooses to ruthlesssly suppress it. And I already have it on my calendar to watch it again tonight. This is my opinion: I think you are taking this movie too far. I’ll fix it. The conversations in this movie are to die for. The second dream: “I am a honeymoon, and I am dying. Hey there Saeed I am definitively not a professional. It’d only be enjoyable for the gang that hangs out on this site. “Thoroughbreds” is classically Hitchcockian in its smoldering homicidal tendencies, yet bracingly current with the spot-on casting of Anya Taylor-Joy and Olivia Cooke as childhood friends who reconnect and reveal the internal damage they’ve become skilled at suppressing. And then they write down the closest movie match (or funniest movie match) and they tell their picks. And Taylor-Joy reveals a chilly narcissism beneath Lily’s polished veneer. My only point? Oh, yes. We see that her mother is tanning because her husband “likes it when I have a little color.” We learn that Lily’s parents want her to go to Brookemore – which is a college for girls with behavioral problems.