Death of a Unicorn

8.7/10 I actually really enjoyed this movie. It’s super aesthetically pleasing, the jokes are funny, and everybody’s performance was spot on. There is legit never a dull moment in this movie

Only bad thing was the CGI

I can understand why people don’t like this film. But the themes and ideas resonated with me so deeply that I overlooked the style of the film that I don’t usually enjoy. The type of humor that I like to call, marvel-esq or superhero movie humor. It’s not for me. I wasn’t a fan of how hyperbolic they made the rich family characters. Although I get why they made it more lighthearted and goofy on the surface. Overall it was a fun film.

It did have some predictability like the good people will survive and the villains will die which I’m fine with. That doesn’t usually happen in real life so it’s nice to get that satisfaction in film. I loved how gruesome and merciless the unicorns were with anybody who wanted to use and kill them for profit.

I’m trying to find a way to keep this from being too long. All I want to say is there’s themes in the film that I have been contemplating and discussing a lot in my life. Greed, power, selfishness, bending morals in claims of doing good for the masses and, on a more personal level, prioritizing career above family has always deeply, deeply, deeply bothered me to my core. Now, I know there are many films that touch on these themes but there something fun and different about how they focused it around unicorns. There’s one last theme they touched on and it comes in when Jenna Ortega’s character is explaining what the unicorn showed her. In my own thoughts and discussions I’ve had over the years I’ve thought, “what happens when we figure out what all ‘this’ is? Will anything change? Will life be different? Maybe we should be more comfortable in the unknown and let the river flow where it flows. We are too focused on finding the answers that we are missing out on living”

I don’t even know if the film was meant to be this deep and no I didn’t even watch it high 😂

8/10!! It was rlly fun, super unique, and pretty dang gory!! The acting was definitely campy at times but it was purposeful and felt goofy. It ends feeling good, but was pretty intense throughout. Highly recommend!!

The unicorns and the spectacle of that was awesome, but the story was surface level

Unicorn lore🙌

7/10 | RIP Shep