Directed By: Diego Ongaro
Written By: Diego Ongaro and Xavi Molia
Story By: Freddie Gibbs, Diego Ongaro and Xavi Molia
Cinematography: Daniel Vecchione
Editor: Benoit Sauvage
Cast: Freddie Gibbs, David Krumholtz, Bob Tarasuk, Jamie Neumann, Sharon Washington
A famous rapper, disillusioned with the music industry and the pressures of being a celebrity, leaves the city and his career behind to find himself in a small-town farming community.
The film is more of a slice of life. It’s an unhurried character study of its main character. Where are you wondering was the casting of Rapper Freddie Gibbs in this film random or if was it written around him more or less. The film feels kind of like a Bob Raefelson film of the 1970s that he would’ve made with Jack Nicholson. Natural and an experiment. where here you put an entertainer or rapper in another element with a story and see what happens and create a portrait while not being a documentary, but its own drama, or at least a study.
This film has one of the most truest lines in the movie. When the main character says “I got into the rap game to get away from the streets but it seems like the more popular I get the closer, it gets me back 10 times closer to the streets.”
This leads us to wonder why you get so caught up in music and rapper persona, and that’s where your fans are from, so that you wanna be cheered by them and represented even while your life might be getting better, but again being separate from the streets. you might want to stay kind of proving yourself to be still the same person.
Like most of us, we need a vacation from time to time. we need to get away, clear our heads, rest, and relax and I admire that the film shows him trying to create his next album but showing growth. In that maybe he doesn’t wanna do the same thing even though he still has it. but also how artistic pursuits can tamper with the proven formula and, when you have a deadline how easily it is to get distracted, and not feel necessarily inspired
How one might be so successful, but you also kind of long just for the normal things in life that others live and have to work for. While you have worked for it, is paying off, but you never really get it seem to enjoy necessarily the simple things. As the highlife at a certain point is seemingly more normal
I think Freddie Gibbs is cast perfectly. He definitely has the rapping skills and is an underrated rapper. Who I am a fan of even before this film. He’s the main reason I decided to watch the film and here he gives a great performance playing a character maybe not unlike himself. He shows a lot of emotional turmoil throughout not necessarily through dialogue, but body language, and emotionally. He rises to the challenge
This could’ve easily been a comedy with the premise of a rapper getting used to being in the wilderness to make their next album. Luckily it ends up becoming more of a character study. We learn things little by little about them, filling in the blanks as he goes about his days trying to Make out his various interactions with those around him in the woods.
Luckily, the film doesn’t bring up race though in one scene. It does kind of show maybe one character's racism in a minor way though that doesn’t affect the rest of the film but is acknowledged that the film nor the characters are blind to that.
I guess it depends on, even though there’s a certain type of sound, song, and artistry that made you famous. also having no friends primarily only your fans. if you want to stay true to them only or if you wanna please the people almost like marriage, but also even as you grow as a person. You have to wonder, do you want to keep your music that represents yourself to a certain extent. So do you want to be that same person or over the years do you want to grow and show an evolution? you’re always gonna be true to yourself but you know you can’t stay the same forever and you change with the times. so to speak. I know everybody’s like “Oh I’m the same person. I’ve always been” though certain things in life happen and responsibilities take over.
The film also shows the business side of how sometimes you might get fed up and wanna leave it all behind, but you have way too many people depending on you, that you’re kind of forced back in. Even when maybe you wanna try something new.
It’s also interesting that as a rapper he’s the most financially successful character in the movie surrounded by these working-class Caucasians. Who love what they do up to now and he is the one of privilege. Even if he did work his way to where he is. he’s the one who seems to have all the benefits. yet he is the most tortured character emotionally throughout
The film also shows him not totally removing his toe from his surroundings and he still has a connection back to the country and his old life. Reminders of his old Life like a continuing beef, though he’s enjoying his life remoteness. In other words, fighting and coming back to a certain reality that is a fantasy to others. Kind of like a fantasy. He is living full of discovery, and a slower pace is a reality that is a fantasy to him. He feels maybe he has moved on or reached a different part of his life, or he’s making money off of his old life that he’s not necessarily in tune with anymore
Not to mention, he finds the people he’s around in his seclusion more real than the people in his more superstar life as they’re not making any money off of him when he’s in his seclusion, and he’s more in control of his life, whereas in his professional life he has certain obligations, and people making decisions for him, even though this is what he strives for
In the end, having an epiphany or realizing kind of house, shallow, his show business life is, More is
The ending pretty much spells it all out. Where he finally catches the skunk that has seemingly been hiding underneath his house. He traps it, and he tries to dispose of it in the woods by himself even though his friend Bob, the farmer tells him to call him immediately. Once he gets it he decides to dispatch the skunk Still in the cage and then when he turns around, he sees that the skunk has escaped which could have meaning for him as is seemingly the skunk chose to be trapped and acted that way, but in the end could’ve escaped whenever he wanted to and chose to leave when he was back Where he wanted to be
Grade: B-
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