Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Curt Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

Ruby Chang I'm stunned, honestly. I am rarely thoroughly invested in movies because I can usually feel the clear divide between real life and the screen, but this one REALLY pulled me in. It was beautiful, for lack of a better word. Gorgeous. Some of the shots will stay with me for a very, very long time. Amy's pain...so real and heart- wrenching. And I love love love the posing in the very last scene. Visceral, cutting, vivid. I can see why people would be upset about this movie being labeled horror. Up until the very end, not much occurs that would be found in a typical horror movie. But at the same time, I can see why it IS horror. There are monsters everywhere in the movie: depression, trauma, a broken heart, desperation, Amy herself. And as she says in the movie, many other forms of violence exist besides the kind that involves a gun or a beating, and you see it so clearly everywhere in this movie. I can say, with all the genuineness I can muster, that I love this film. I'm usually very bad at handling the drama genre because I find that the emotions can be overwhelming. This one, though, is a perfect balance of quirky/funny/fascinating and utterly sad. It kept me engaged and hoping so hard for a happy ending without coming on too strong. So worth the watch.

iateyourkitten32 Browsing for movies, and saw this on netflix. Checked out the plot description and it had real potential to be an incredible movie. I should have checked IMDb, if a movie does not have a 6+ star rating on IMDb, I do not watch it.Honestly, there is not much positive I can say about the movie. The only thing worse than the story was the unbelievably bad direction, editing, acting, and plot execution. The only good thing about the movie was the music (and I believe it was one song replayed through every key point in the movie).The ending didn't feel right at all. In a movie, there is supposed to be a plot, that culminates in a final 'payoff', or a series of scenes late in the movie that make sense of the movie in its entirety. This movie didn't have that at all.Don't watch this movie, it was an hour and 20 minutes of my life I regret. I kept hoping the finale of the movie would make it all worth it; I was wrong. It doesn't even deserve the 1 star rating that I must give it in order to review it. It gets 0.5 star for actually being made (good job to whoever tried to make a movie and succeeded here -- it's still an awful movie).

Ryan Kirby *SPOILER ALERT CENTRAL!* I have a summary and then a conversation piece with my partner about this movie. I want to understand the entire feature. It is a bothersome thing to not have a definite. Yes, binary-phobes – I want answers! Please comment and give opinions. Respectfully. The movie Felt begins with a narrative that lives up to its name – Amy's life is a 'fucking nightmare' and the whole movie convenes, rises, and climaxes just as a real nightmare would. As Amy progresses further into an anti-patriarch reality, her repressions of male angst and discontent comes out in the forms of felt costumes that she masculinizes herself with in the woods alone. Interwoven between shots of her friends trying to appease her and provide a viable social life (predominately filled with misogynistic, young men), we find our protagonist strewing herself through the forest with a compilation of different felt facades as well as a synthetically attached penis – this is her escape and victory, but she brings nobody in. Whenever she meets Kenny, who is thrown from her car by her newfound antagonistic equal, she finds a sense of attraction for what she has been isolated from and only fulfilled by in the woods through her felt costumes. It is as though she cannot either resist the male form, or the company of masculinity, although it is presumably what caused her severe psychological trauma. I have some opinions on this that are equally settling and unsettling to me. My partner and I discussed these opinions, and I have them in a colloquial and chronological back-and-forth session as follows. I am 'M' and he is 'H'.M: She wanted to kill; she didn't want to get better – had she wanted to get better and believe in the higher order of ethics instead of the masculine threat, she would have listened to Kenny in the woods when he bravely stuck his neck out to tell her his 'secret'.H: No – I think that she did want to kill him, but that he just ended up with the wrong chick; she was in a bad place, couldn't trust a man, and he cheated on her, fair and square.M: How do we know that? It was implicit, not explicit.H: The pictures; her friend; the phone.M: What if he was in a relationship and wanted to get out of it for Amy? It's hard to, on the first date, explain that you're living with somebody if you want their company right away. What if he stopped having sex with the girl he was living with all for Amy? I mean, the guy was patient. He even set up a party supporting the whole agenda of female anatomy and feminine pride.H: He still should've told her sooner. I do agree that she hated men, and that she preyed on him because he was weak in the sense that he was emotionally available. That was something different to her.M: Right. Which is why she couldn't inflict harm on anybody else – they were too strong; and she was only strong in the woods, in her costume, or by emotionally captivating Kenny. I think that she didn't want to give up the notion of men being equal; I think the movie speaks loudly of rape culture and female equality, but also on extremism as well. Extremism in the sense that, had she let Kenny finish his sentence on that mossy log, he may have pleasantly surprised her. But she just ignores him. She just leaves it alone, and is ready to kill the only patient man she's ever met. H: I don't think she set out to kill. I think he pushed her. I think he cheated on her. I think that she wouldn't have killed otherwise. I think that she only killed because she was pushed and the fact that she was 'burned' once again (she explains in the burnt tree), she needed renewal. That renewal was death for her attacker. M: So Kenny was killed because he was the most vulnerable attacker? The weakest lion? The one who she had power over, but who still had power over her?H: Right.M: I think she was looking for an excuse to kill; to atone for all her past misfortunes; I think that she didn't know the full Kenny story and still killed him – that, to me, means that she needed a reason to feel powerful. There are plenty of tropes throughout the movie; going into the woods is a mythological tale of rejuvenation and renewal and becoming new again (as suggested by her friends through God), is taken into Amy's own hands. I think that, overall, her fear of a male dominated world was inductive of an outlet that could only result in killing. The first time she felt strong enough to attack back, she did, and at her weakest antagonist. Felt feels like Amy's home away from home; she seems drugged out, or numb the entire film, and captivates with her despondency. Overall, Felt is a great independent film that raises so many questions that people can talk heaps over the 80 minutes allowed in the frames.

Silvaring The summary does a good job of explaining the plot without giving too much away. So how is the experience of watching it? First the good - Atmosphere is cool, and the movie doesn't dwell too long on each scene so there's a nice forward momentum to the story. Characters are interesting, and even though the film focuses mainly on the lead the other characters can be pretty realistic and non-cliché. Finally, the movie is fresh in that you don't often see female leads who are getting into these kind of weird depressive aggressive states. Coming off of 7 Chinese Brothers you kind of get reminded about how many indie films have guys in the lead.Now the bad. As another review states the film does drag in the second half, and the start of the issues possibly begin in the bedroom scene (just after the halfway mark). In this scene the lead character (who might have been the victim of rape in the past) opens up to someone else. She goes onto say 'As a woman you're constantly objectified and discredited for anything you do because you're female', and 'just because you're a girl gives men the right to do whatever they want to you, because they (men) are selfish and exploitative'. Aside from being completely false, this kind of stereotyping of entire genders isn't recognized as a problem in the film, and if the film had explored the trauma that could lead a person to these kind of views it would have been balanced, but it never does. So what all this means is that the film doesn't go to places it should have (kind of like another recent film called 'Dirty Weekend' with an elderly Matthew Broderick questioning but never actually questioning his sexuality).There are probably other minor things I missed, but those should cover the main elements. Worth a watch - maybe.