Suburbicon is strangely intriguing but unfortunately a flawed mess. It follows a suburban family dealing with a deathly tragedy caused by two ruthless criminals. The family accepts their losses and attempts to continue their lives until the criminals return with more than they expected. Initially, the story feels energetic and mysterious but soon becomes weirdly misguided.
Despite its creative direction, and superb casting, the film doesn't give characters enough time to evolve or explore their stories. Instead of one singular coherent premise, there's an additional subplot that either feels expendable or a seemingly better story written without enough context. These conjoined stories makes the film's time length tedious and unlikable.
But so are many people in this particular town. Almost every individual in this fictitious town are absolutely snooty, aggressive, spiteful, or downright insensitive. It's a textbook case of beauty glossing over ugliness in the worst imaginable way possible but masked with humor. Its humor however often feels dry as it's overlapped by some deeply uncomfortable themes that affects the quality of the film in many ways. It's incapable to determine its worth or purpose due to its scattered ideas and non-sequitur storytelling.
There's not enough characters to root for, too many glaring flaws that otherwise ruins a great idea, elongated nonsense that jeopardizes the enjoyment, tries to present twists that either happen too soon or aren't justified enough, and overall forfeits any further redeeming qualities that would consider it a modern classic.
Take my advice. Don't live in Suburbicon. Just leave the neighborhood.
Despite its creative direction, and superb casting, the film doesn't give characters enough time to evolve or explore their stories. Instead of one singular coherent premise, there's an additional subplot that either feels expendable or a seemingly better story written without enough context. These conjoined stories makes the film's time length tedious and unlikable.
But so are many people in this particular town. Almost every individual in this fictitious town are absolutely snooty, aggressive, spiteful, or downright insensitive. It's a textbook case of beauty glossing over ugliness in the worst imaginable way possible but masked with humor. Its humor however often feels dry as it's overlapped by some deeply uncomfortable themes that affects the quality of the film in many ways. It's incapable to determine its worth or purpose due to its scattered ideas and non-sequitur storytelling.
There's not enough characters to root for, too many glaring flaws that otherwise ruins a great idea, elongated nonsense that jeopardizes the enjoyment, tries to present twists that either happen too soon or aren't justified enough, and overall forfeits any further redeeming qualities that would consider it a modern classic.
Take my advice. Don't live in Suburbicon. Just leave the neighborhood.