A.T. White is infatuated with his project Starfish, and that’s not a negative. Pingback: Session 9 Ending Explained: Simon, Gordon, And All Those Crazy Theories - Signal Horizon Magazine, Binary code can be synthesized down to musical notes.

Unicorn heads mounted on walls, jellyfish pets, telescopes used to spy on her neighbors, and turtles who share a home with a tattered copy of Moby Dick are all glimpses of a lost life. Human in a relatable way. At that point, we must do the same with the narrative.

This answer depends entirely on your mindset when watching the movie. Not in an intrusive way, mind you. You never want it to end even though it’s weird AF.

Inside the vessel is an infant boy … Elements do escape White’s attempt to structure a cover-to-cover tale of damaged nerves, such as backstory elements left in the dark.

Flickering Myth Rating – Film: ★ ★ ★  / Movie: ★ ★ ★. And what she feels and sees don’t always make a lot of sense.

All the knick-knacky detritus of Grace’s home paint a picture of who she was. There are memories scattered throughout of the two of them on the beach, meet/cuteing, and dating. Then Aubrey finds one of multiple recorded tapes made by Grace, which leads to a scavenger hunt for the rest. Matt spends his after-work hours posting nonsense on the internet instead of sleeping like a normal human. Geek Culture | Movies, TV, Comic Books & Video Games.

As Aubrey, Gardner is captivating from start to finish.

If you’re in the latter camp, feel free to switch off immediately. Music has power. If you like movies that force you to think about what’s happening instead of explaining everything, Starfish is for you. When I’m not watching and writing about my favorite movies and series, I’m introducing my family to the wonderful world of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror.

No explanation, no warning, just other curious radio voices trying to piece everything together. Without her “dare you to look away” performance Starfish would be boring. In the instance of the brand-new Cosmic Horror offering Starfish, a series of cassette tapes (remember those?) One of the few creatures capable of regenerating severed limbs, starfish are incredibly adaptive animals. Grief and depression are isolating. The second much more bleak interpretation is Aubrey really brought about the end of the world and life is over as we know it. Relative mysteriousness around humanity’s collapse.

Backdrops flash from spikey icebergs to wheat-auburn valleys to a typical bedroom as she sits cross-legged, headphones drowning out her time-hopping. It is completely dark, and no context is given, but it feels as if the scene is from the perspective of the man and women on the walkie-talkie trying to contact Aubrey. A unique, intimate portrayal of a girl grieving for the loss of her best friend, which just so happens to take place on the day the world ends. But to each their own. Share Tweet. © 2009-2020 Flickering Myth Limited.

She may be able to save it if she can find the mix tapes the dead friend hid for her all across town.

Binary code can be synthesized down to musical notes. Pingback: The Top 10 Horror Movies of 2019 - Signal Horizon Magazine. It’s inexplicably touching, makes no sense, and yet you know exactly what is going on. I wanted Sci-Fi. She breaks into Grace’s apartment, basks in the memories, but then it happens – the end of the world. Starfish is like a Cold Play concert. It is haunting, funny, poignant, and for a film about the end of the world caused by(or maybe saved by) a mixed tape, it is surprisingly grounded.

In this case, maybe saving the world is really about saving yourself. His choices are confident and bold. And the film obliges by giving us breadcrumbs in the form of some very complex exposition about a mysterious signal that caused it all. That is due to several things.

A casual indictment is also lobbed at Aubrey by Grace in a dream. Like every good metaphor, the story of Starfish works on many levels. Starfish is like a Cold Play concert. It’s a high-concept idea complete with monsters and animation, but really, it’s not about any of that.

In hushed, forlorn whispers they tell Grace’s secrets as much as Aubrey’s. He first appears at the funeral, so he wasn’t dead, but instead of a memory, the bloodied Edward may instead be a vision of his future. Together that gives Starfish a strong cohesion and tone that make it sing. Aubrey wears a wolf coat and hat complete with full wolf head as she traverses the newly snowy landscape of her home town. The lone wolf symbolism is reinforced by the scant few other people she interacts with.

My only regret, there is not enough time in the day to watch everything. She is being suffocated by her shame as much as the blankets she uses for comfort. This is actually rooted in science. That magic became Starfish a lovely film about the horrors of grief, regret, and massive, lumbering bio-luminescent aliens taking over our world. It’s rare that there’s not a full meal on the screen for the viewer to digest—and while it doesn’t all fit together exactly, the connections are lucid enough to work in a sad, emotional, dreamlike way. At worst, you’ll be utterly lost in a sea of tremendous ideas – but that’ll be made evident rather quickly. It’s a mixtape for avant-garde madness that keeps this cheery disposition even when dread literally comes knocking. Link to it. Starring Virginia Gardner, Christina Masterson, and Eric Beecroft. Optimists tend to view the ending as her acceptance. That’s my kind of movie and I can’t wait to see what White does next. When Aubrey (Virginia Gardner, who also impressed in the recent Killer Party but here gets a more substantial role) loses her friend Grace (Christina Masterson) her world is turned upside down. It is a testament to Gardner’s bravery and White’s patience to let her face and wide-eyed stare speak more than words ever could. The force field, reminiscent of Alex Garland’s Annihilation shimmer represents her breaking from her isolated world of grief and rejoining the world of the living.

She may be dead, may be moving on, or she really did just destroy the world with a cassette tape circa 1983. are registered trademarks / copyright their respective rights holders. All Aubrey knows is each cassette recreates a fragment of Grace while transporting Aubrey through time and space. Often intimate, cleverly adorable thanks to pet turtle Bellini, and passionately emotional as Aubrey recalls relationships with Grace and – errr – others (keeping that silent). All rights reserved. We have to realize White wants us to become Aubrey, feel what she feels, and see what she sees. The music on the tapes, of course, plays a key role, as do the hometown locations, snowy settings, terrifying creatures that populate the movie, and much more. Strongly, STRONGLY disagree. Starfish, 2019.

I grew up with old school slashers, but my real passion is television and all things weird and ambiguous. Directed by A.T. White. Certainly for the more arthouse, narratively obscure appreciators – a markedly ambitious and ethereal debut for Mr. White.

A form of self-forgiveness that allows her to forgive if not forget her past sins and choose to move on with the next phase of her life. He clearly was an ex-boyfriend that she cheated on and ran from when things went sour.

White’s direction is also top-notch, especially when you realize this is his feature film debut. Great Female Assassin Movies That Will Leave You Shaken! Someone named Edward, who she had hoped to reconcile with is the man behind the impressive and realistic head injury. Annihilation-A Movie Review With Theories. White’s arsenal of creative deployment features Anime-esque illustrations, 4th-wall breaking, eye-catching costume design (Aubrey’s “lone wolf” cover) – and it’s all so vivid. A film about the loneliness of grief and world-ending events would be unbearable. With Starfish, director Al White has higher goals than an unlikely post-apocalyptic scavenger hunt. Even with the weight of her friend’s death weighing her down, Aubrey goes through the motions of life. You’ll try to make sense of the narrative in Starfish to figure out the mystery behind this girl, her friend, and the sudden apocalypse.

In Starfish, a woman wakes up after her friend’s funeral to find the world is ending.

Starfish symbolize intuition. When everyone is on the same page, magic happens. So even when the narrative doesn’t make sense, something about it always just feels right. Not only can they regrow limbs, but the severed limb can generate a new starfish. Was Aubrey, Grace’s white whale? The reproduction, modification, distribution, or republication of the content (including RSS feeds) without permission is strictly prohibited.

Critics often describe scattershot and hyperactive needle-drop-heavy sequences as “music video” unfocused. Which appear as gigantic forcefield domes. Filed Under: Matt Donato, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: A.T. White, Christina Masterson, Eric Beecroft, Starfish, Virginia Gardner.

There are symbols everywhere. She may have put the final nail in the coffin of Earth by playing the tapes, but she did so in an act of bravery to save the world. On each tape is another piece of the fractured audio frequency that could save humanity – or doom it? And what better way to make that accessible and interesting than by showing a woman alone in the world with only the power of music to save her?

WARNING: Major spoilers for Us from the start. Read War and Peace, or Led Misrables if you want high brow, self important drivel. After the loss of a loved one, nothing is ever the same. The film is more about her acceptance than that of any world-ending alien event. All content is the property of Signal Horizon. This movie is absolutely horrible and meaningless. So is the end of the world. About healing and regret. He seems like a pretty cool guy, but don’t feed him after midnight just to be safe (beers are allowed/encouraged).

A faceless man who appears multiple times with a gaping wound.

It’s inexplicably touching, makes no sense, and yet you know exactly what is going on. Directed by A.T. White. Starfish is basically her solo show; she acts opposite no one (except a pet turtle) for the majority of the film. Life’s big questions answered to the haunting beats of bands who are channeling The Get Up Kids and Ben Folds Five. Starfish (Movie Review) Posted at 16:09h Jeannie Blue cryptic rock, CrypticRock, Movie reviews, News, Reviews 0 Comments.

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