{"id":119563,"date":"2024-04-30T12:05:36","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T11:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/?guid=99bb424e296f3c5c847127912141d936"},"modified":"2024-04-30T12:05:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T11:05:36","slug":"love-lies-bleeding-review-hot-dirty-fast-combustible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/30\/love-lies-bleeding-review-hot-dirty-fast-combustible\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Lies Bleeding review \u2013 hot, dirty, fast, combustible"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A<\/span>t the climax of David Fincher\u2019s Gone Girl<\/a>, in a confrontation with her husband after her carefully constructed mask has peeled off, Amy Dunne utters the immortal line, \u201cI\u2019ve killed for you. Who else can say that?\u201d The same sentiment runs through Rose Glass and co-writer Weronika Tofilska\u2019s lead-filled Love Lies Bleeding, about two women on a quest to prove their devotion. Through a sheen of sweat, blood and steroids, the all-consuming impact of Lou (Kristen Stewart) and Jackie\u2019s (Katy O\u2019Brian) whirlwind romance will have lasting consequences on the New Mexico dustbowl town that Lou\u2019s bug-obsessed, gun-running father (Ed Harris) rules with an iron fist.<\/p>\n

If her debut feature Saint Maud<\/a> was an austere slowburn, Glass\u2019s follow-up is a Molotov cocktail: hot, dirty, fast, combustible. Orphaned Oklahoman Jackie blows into town on her way to the world bodybuilding championships in Las Vegas \u2013 she lands a temporary gig waitressing at the gun range operated by Lou Sr and his dirtbag son-in-law JJ (Dave Franco). Her obsessive exercise routine quickly brings her to the attention of Lou Jr, who spots her pumping iron among her regular gym rat clientele. Instantly smitten, Lou offers Jackie some of the steroids favoured by her male customers. \u201cJust to give you that extra kick,\u201d she assures a slightly hesitant Jackie.<\/p>\n

That extra kick looks like this: the post-workout burn of lactic acid build-up; omelettes carefully made with just the whites; hot, fast, dirty bathroom sex; the explosive desire to fight back against the violence of misogyny no matter what the cost. Stewart and O\u2019Brian\u2019s chemistry is electric \u2013 besotted with each other almost instantly, their love burns like magnesium, incandescent and dangerous. Soon enough Jackie can\u2019t bear to see Lou crushed under the boot of her monstrous brother-in-law and father \u2013 and that\u2019s when the body count starts to rise.<\/p>\n

With a pounding, gym-appropriate Clint Mansell score and Ben Fordesman\u2019s saturated, luscious cinematography, Love Lies Bleeding embraces the pulpy, static-charged spirit of its 1989 small-town America setting. While the Berlin Wall tumbles on the television, there\u2019s a growing sense that Jackie and Lou\u2019s love could have a similarly earth-shattering power. The influence of Paul Verhoeven and David Cronenberg is apparent, but the lesbian relationship at the heart of the film puts Love Lies Bleeding in a midnight movie canon of its own.<\/p>\n

Considering how radically different Love Lies Bleeding is from Saint Maud, Glass already appears chameleonic and uncompromising in her filmmaking vision. Frenetic and obsessive, this is still a love story amid the gore and slick of body oil \u2013 a heart-pounding, iron-pumping descent into the heady heart of obsession and desire.<\/p>\n

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