In this review I will give my personal interpretation and a few thoughts about the film.
First of all, the film was suprisingly scary considering that not that many scary things happen. There just are many POV scenes where the camera slowly moves through dark rooms and around corners with scary music in the background. The film also has an interesting start: Happy dancing with happy music followed by a very scary car driving through the darkness with a terrible accident. I think this is supposed to show the contrasts in Hollywood (expectation vs reality).
At first it seems as though that the brunette has mental issues but then the plot twist comes through: it has been the blonde woman who has mental issues: In the beginning we see what she dreams her life would be as a Hollywood actress (determined to be successful just like her aunt) but at the end of the movie we see that she is a massive failure, a junkie and someone who wants to have her ex girlfriend assassinated out of jealousy.
I think this plot would have been interesting enough and would have resulted in a great plot twist thriller but the director decided to add many more non-sensical elements to the film to keep people guessing what anything means. Many side stories (e.g. The mafia wants a certain actress, why does it have to be a cowboy who puts the director under pressure, why is there a man having the same dream multiple times and then collapsing in real world after encountering the same setting, ...). All of these things I disliked because they add nothing to the movie other than 'mystery' (in the sense of it really is a mystery how anyone can make sense of this).
All in all it should be clear that the director wants to make the point that nothing is as it seems in Hollywood and that many people are lured to LA with false hopes of becoming a movie star but eventually ending up as failures. I liked the overall idea so 7/10 is adequate, but without all the previously mentioned non-sensical elements it could easily have been a 9/10 thriller.
First of all, the film was suprisingly scary considering that not that many scary things happen. There just are many POV scenes where the camera slowly moves through dark rooms and around corners with scary music in the background. The film also has an interesting start: Happy dancing with happy music followed by a very scary car driving through the darkness with a terrible accident. I think this is supposed to show the contrasts in Hollywood (expectation vs reality).
At first it seems as though that the brunette has mental issues but then the plot twist comes through: it has been the blonde woman who has mental issues: In the beginning we see what she dreams her life would be as a Hollywood actress (determined to be successful just like her aunt) but at the end of the movie we see that she is a massive failure, a junkie and someone who wants to have her ex girlfriend assassinated out of jealousy.
I think this plot would have been interesting enough and would have resulted in a great plot twist thriller but the director decided to add many more non-sensical elements to the film to keep people guessing what anything means. Many side stories (e.g. The mafia wants a certain actress, why does it have to be a cowboy who puts the director under pressure, why is there a man having the same dream multiple times and then collapsing in real world after encountering the same setting, ...). All of these things I disliked because they add nothing to the movie other than 'mystery' (in the sense of it really is a mystery how anyone can make sense of this).
All in all it should be clear that the director wants to make the point that nothing is as it seems in Hollywood and that many people are lured to LA with false hopes of becoming a movie star but eventually ending up as failures. I liked the overall idea so 7/10 is adequate, but without all the previously mentioned non-sensical elements it could easily have been a 9/10 thriller.