Last Updated on August 30, 2024 by
Blink Twice is a 2024 Thriller Movie Directed by Zoë Kravitz. The film stars Naomi Ackie, Channing Tatum, and Alia Shawkat, with a runtime of 1h 42m, and will be released on August 23, 2024.
The wealthy here is portrayed by the character Slater King played by Channing Tatum, who is an ex-convicted tech mogul representing the roots, who through the montage of news programs, is seen to have re-entered society as a remorseful man. As for what Slater’s transgressions were exactly, it is never clearly stated. However, this film, we will soon discover, is not about the kind of spoiled rotten unhealthy rich that Tatum usually portrays. Rather, it is merely about the kind of hypocrisy of power A.
When Frida (Naomi Ackie), a cocktail server working at a gala that Slater organizes, gets a chance to mingle with the tech mogul, they instantly connect. Finally, Slater, looking like a charming and romantic man, offers Frida and her friend Jess (played by Alia Shawkat, who has incredible chemistry with Ackie) to come with him and his group of snobbish friends to his island for a luxury vacation. Newlywed Frida and Jess excitedly get aboard a private jet and are sunbathe by the pool during the day and fry their faces off at night with alcohol and drugs. Drink and weed are aplenty and Slater, who is getting closer to Frida, is as polite and good-looking as he is.
Well, of course, we are aware that things are not that simple; well, anything too bright has its dark side. Every day, Frida wakes up on the island – she has no recollection of what has happened the night before. Gradually she starts experiencing things like waking up with dirt under her fingernails. One fine day, she discovers that Jess is missing and the rest of the women on the island cannot even remember who Jess is.
Co-writer Douglas Kravitz has quite several good ol’ times on the technical side of things, twanging many pleasing and slick levers of sound, music, and camera movements, and saturating the movie with a kind of smirking aesthetic irony before things get ugly and violent. On a level of the director’s craftsmanship and skill, it is a very good movie and this is Kravitz’s first shot at filmmaking; what that craftsmanship and skill are constructing on a higher conceptual level can be questioned.
In the process of fighting for Slater’s attention, Sarah (Adria Arjona who is a rising actress) aids Frida as they try to solve what happened to Jess. As Sarah at one point puts it, women are taught to be rivals when they should be sisters. It is a line that in a tense scene is spoken more obliquely than one might gather simply from reading the words.
The sparing deployment of thematic explicitness up until its midsection is one of the film’s strengths (an aspect appreciated all the more when one considers the original title of “Pussy Island”), as it works mostly as a highly effective horror-thriller. Still, within Sarah’s line rests the film’s nonjudgmental observance of a dynamic that is presumably real when women like Frida and Sarah orbit elite circles: the seductive pull of the trappings of material success and influence and the training that enables one to rifle through other people’s misfortunes for shiny pennies or look the other way when it’s necessary to do according to The Script.
It is a view that Kravitz who likely had the privilege of growing up in such a world can opine about even though Kravitz was never a wallflower trying to crash the Hollywood party. But what she was plausibly accustomed to is the situation that any woman becomes aware of in rooms drinking with the elite – the meaningful glances they would exchange, winking at each other in some circumstances. The essence of the movie’s joke revolves around the phrase that is used when one blinks twice and does not turn away. It becomes, instead, a film of vengeance where tension is finally released into something truly predatory and thoroughly engrossing but where the entire structure can sometimes be rather unfortunately orchestrated.
By the end, a part of the experience makes one ask, what else deeper meaning is Kravitz trying to convey apart from the basic statements she wants to make — and it is evident she has something to say — while another part wants to embrace the audacious concept she has offered. One where the movie is surprisingly thrilling in its sourness, though there is emptiness in its core.
Blink Twice 2024 Parents Guide Age Rating
Blink Twice is rated R by the Motion Picture Rating (MPA) for strong violent content, sexual assault, drug use and language throughout, and some sexual references.
Sexual Content/Nudity: The movie has scenes where people are implied to be having sexual relations and some of the scenes depict suggestive or sexy. Even though the actual genitals never pop up on the screen, the implication of the sex act is present in each scene. There are some incidences of flesh revelation like characters in swimsuits, sexy outfits, and even scenes where they are partially dressed in bed. These scenes are not as graphic but they are rather provocative and are part of the reason why the movie is rated for adult audiences. The characters use sexual innuendos in their conversation and make direct references to sexual assignments, especially concerning the themes that depict the life of the upper class.
Violence/Gore: The movie has a gradual progression of a dark tone and there are instances where characters undergo psychological torture or trauma. This builds suspense as Frida wakes up from a dream-like horror as she notices something is off; there are quite many suspenseful and creepy scenes. To escalate the tension, the film features scenes in which characters fight physically. These can be very violent and can sometimes involve scenes of killings, rape, and other heinous acts which are the manifestations of the ugly side of a man when his authority is threatened. While the movie is not extremely visceral, there are nice shades of blood when characters get hurt during fights or when something creepy happens. Such scenes are needed to bring the horror component and to make the audience feel a certain kind of horror.
Substance Use: Consumption of alcohol is a common theme and addicts are depicted as individuals who regularly take alcohol for instance, Sam Drink Alcohol addict. This also includes cases of excessive consumption of alcohol in festivities such as parties, dinners,s, and other closed private functions. It is an augmentation, envisioning the high status of the upper classes. The film incorporates the consumption of recreational drugs, especially when people are seen as having a good time dancing. People are depicted using substances such as marijuana and possibly other substance abuse that leads to states and loss of control. Thus, the movie is not afraid to reveal the consequences of alcohol consumption, such as forgetfulness, dizziness, and physical decline, as each morning Fryda wakes up with no memories of the previous night.
Profanity: The dialogue contains strong language, including instances of the said featured word and others. Such language is also appropriate because the characters mostly operate in high-stakes environments that require such heightened language. There is always a possibility of using abusive language as a script might include that sort of conversation occasionally or in certain instances, aggressive dialogues between characters demoralizing each other are allowed.
Conclusion: This movie is a dark and multi-layered, look at the dark side of power, money, and status. The first one is the sexual appeal, the second one is the substances used in the film, the third one is the incorporation of violence, and the final thematic area is psychological horror, which all predetermined the film for adults only.
