My favorite thing about being active on social media is seeing which shows and movies become internet trends and trying to decipher why. Well the latest movie getting buzz on TikTok is May December recently released on Netflix. Though it is not a movie that I would normally be interested in watching, streaming service movies are eligible for Oscars so I must do my due diligence. So here we are, my review of Netflix’s May December.
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I think May December was fine, but the content aside the quality was nothing more than mediocre. And I know there has been a lot of Oscar buzz around this movie from the general public but the reality is that nothing in this film was remarkable. And I genuinely don’t anticipate any academy recognition. I’d give the overall movie a generous 5/10, there is so much stigma around male rape and mental health and this movie had the opportunity to actually get into that issue and acknowledge it and it chose not to. I think doing a story like this half-assed is far more harmful then not doing it at all. Had May December taken place from his perspective the audience could have gotten so much more out of it. And the writing really wouldn’t have had to change that much. It felt like a wasted opportunity.
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