Now that I’ve had some time to come down from the experience (and had to sit through Ant Man) I’m gonna go ahead and say it wasn’t a BAD movie. It was well directed and shot and the effects/montages were well done. I don’t actually have a problem with the subject matter as is—but I found it all very gratuitous. I look at David Cronenberg’s movies which are all sorts of twisted but always in a manner that serves the story. Infinity Pool didn’t
need to show certain things to get across it’s muddled themes of classism, and I think that’s proven by the fact that the most graphic stuff didn’t occur naturally but through shoehorned sequences written off as “because drugs.”
I’ll also mention part of the experience involved getting my girlfriend to go as a way to justify our A-List membership, which we’ve used maybe twice since the summer. I had to convince her it would be worth it and knowing she was NOT into it and that I had sold it hard made it a little embarrassing for me when certain…things started coming out of certain…places
I dont know…to each their own. I’m down with the weird stuff but when it’s presented just for the sake of it I get weirded out. It’s not that I can’t stomach it, it’s that I start to question what the point is.