{"id":4632,"date":"2024-11-19T13:19:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T13:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/?p=4632"},"modified":"2024-11-19T13:19:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T13:19:52","slug":"aggro-dr1ft-2024-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/19\/aggro-dr1ft-2024-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Aggro Dr1ft (2024) Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Travis Scott in Aggro Dr1ft<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

When I admire a film as much as I do writer\/director Harmony Korine\u2019s 2013 effort, Spring Breakers, <\/em>I feel an obligation to find merit in the rest of its creator\u2019s filmography, regardless of whether or not it deserves it. For this reason, I really tried to like one of Korine\u2019s latest efforts, Aggro Dr1ft, <\/em>the \u201cstory\u201d (if you can call it that) of which centers on the self-proclaimed \u201cworld\u2019s greatest assassin\u201d (Travis Scott) as he takes on his next, lethally dangerous target. Unfortunately, my efforts were not rewarded. Though I admire the film for its artistic courage, I still have to criticize it quite heavily for failing to provide a fully engaging or coherent experience to its audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first feature-length movie shot entirely on infrared film, Aggro Dr1ft<\/em>\u2019s beautiful Florida locations are thoroughly bathed in and vividly accentuated by the format\u2019s deeply set and endlessly hypnotic color scheme of orange, red, blue, green, and magenta. The movie is, simply put, an endless marvel to witness. The gimmick eventually grows old, however, coinciding with the realization that the movie simply doesn\u2019t have much to offer or communicate outside of its off-kilter and bravely unique aesthetics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we experience the characters through endless (and often senseless) internal monologues\/voice-overs that are accompanied by AraabMuzik\u2019s trance-like musical score, it becomes progressively apparent that Korine\u2019s intent with his film is for mood and atmosphere to take precedence over characterization and plot. There\u2019s no one to care about or identify with in the film, and there\u2019s seemingly no point being made with the characters\u2019 hollowness or with the aimlessness of the story in general. Sure, the lead character obviously loves his stick-figure family and, sure, his wife endlessly writhes around like a cat in heat on their bed while repeating \u201cI\u2019m so lonely\u201d when he\u2019s away, but it\u2019s not enough to keep the audience emotionally involved for the majority of the film\u2019s eighty-minute duration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The misguided misogyny found within the lifestyle of some of the characters is unabashedly and thoughtlessly presented throughout the film. The antagonist\/primary target really <\/em>likes to thrust his pelvis in the air and repeatedly call the dancing women who constantly envelop him \u201cbitches.\u201d While I have no issue with seeing such bestial and primitive behavior if there\u2019s a point being made, Aggro Dr1ft <\/em>seems to be basking in the glow of naughtiness and decadence for nothing more than the pure sake of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As evidenced by his best work (Mister Lonely<\/em>, Spring Breakers, The Beach Bum<\/em>) Korine\u2019s experimental nature can be downright thrilling to witness if it\u2019s anchored by some form of commercial\/conventional structure. Without even the most subtle of restraints, he\u2019s simply too out of control and tethered to his own wavelength for his films to be accessible or relatable to more than a very select and small audience. Like most of the great filmmakers, Korine\u2019s genius needs boundaries or it tends to topple under the weight of its own audacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aggro Dr1ft <\/em>had the potential to be a spectacularly vivid fever dream\u2014a surreal action film with impressively unprecedented artistic goals. Instead, it misfires quite noticeably and comes across as a hopelessly pretentious and sluggishly paced exercise in style that just doesn\u2019t know what it is trying to say or accomplish. Unique brilliance such as Korine\u2019s needs to be handled with care and executed with guidance because, when it\u2019s not, it has the potential to produce an almost entirely wasted effort like this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GRADE: C-<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I admire a film as much as I do writer\/director Harmony Korine\u2019s 2013 effort, Spring Breakers, I feel an obligation to find merit in the rest of its creator\u2019s filmography, regardless of whether or not it deserves it. For this reason, I really tried to like one of Korine\u2019s latest efforts, Aggro Dr1ft, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4634,"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4632\/revisions\/4634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}