I watched the Neon Demon and it has stuck with me even if I don’t think I really liked it.  I guess I’d rather than than a blandly pleasant movie in the long run, I like things that demand to be reckoned with, even if when the reckoning is done I come to the conclusion that it was a failure.  Which I haven’t concluded yet, my brain is still processing but I can’t call it a success.  The movie stars Elle Fanning as a hopeful model and this movie owes a lot to the Argento classic Susperia, both in tone and in visual styling.  That is also a movie I ultimately do not like but cannot deny that it has something that has to be reckoned with.  I never thought I’d post Elle Fanning and I wasn’t even sure I wanted to post her today, she’s more here because I can’t quite shake the movie as much as anything.  She did what she needed to in the film. I could see arguing her performance was flat but I think that was the point, she was beautiful but ultimately that was all, really.  Which is kind of the point of the movie, that apparently beauty is enough, despite what people might claim, it’s all that is needed to create fascination.  Or maybe that’s what the movie was, beautiful but hollow.  That certainly is how I describe Susperia and this movie does have me thinking of that.  Either way, I can’t deny there is craft here and something to say, even if the movie, especially the last half an hour, left me unsatisfied.  All these shots are from the movie because they were works of art in how they were composed so today I want to fuck Elle Fanning.