Jessica Forever

I did not expect to like this as much as I did I thought it was awesome and yeah it's quite slow in parts but so what it was captivating to see where the story was going. It comes off very pretentious too, i thought it'd be similar to a clockwork orange and it turns out theres a scene where it had the score from a clockwork orange lol. Jessica comes off as a fully developed character, all the guys were good in their roles for sure. Parts of the film had me a little bored but some slow burns can manage to create atmosphere that wants to keep you watching and it throws in some side stories too so that was a plus. Pretty good in my opinion.

Loved it that much that I ordered a copy of it within half an hour of finishing. Unforgettable movie.

This is a very slow-burn movie that has no horror at all, it isn't even sci-fi. I usually don't give bad reviews as I Like cheesy movies. And I also don't mind subtitles. However this movie tries to build up the characters, and you think at some point it will be alright. Instead, it simply tells the story of a bunch of sociopaths that were found by Jessica, and she tries to change them into something else, something that they are not. In the end, nothing changes in the way that they are. The past will haunt them as long as they live. I don't know how I sat through this, to be more disappointed as the movie moved on. Two thumbs down on this dystopian drama.

If you watch this film and you see Jessica as a mere human, it will fall flat. Jessica has expanded beyond humanity and has filled a space that can only be described as spiritual, transient, multidimensional. She exists in a space that allows her to see things in ways that us mortals attempt to, but so often fail. She does not blame the boys for the things that have had to do, and more than that, for the things that they have been forced to embody in a world that tells them if they do not, they will be dead boys. There are so few places to find love and safety, so few places that will accept your sins committed. Training and nap time come on a strictly monitored and maintained schedule. There's nothing else except for being prepared, being rested, and being together. When they get scared, Jessica is always there to tell them it's gonna be alright regardless. The syndrome of believing that your reactions should be one that alienates you. They don't ever let it happen to you, because they know what it is to be alone, what it is to deny the pain because there is nowhere for it to go, nowhere that will accept it, and allow you rest, and provide you love. She holds the boys like children so often, I cannot count how many references to classic paintings I saw within this, with the same motifs attached. Mutual love and care is an act of revolution, is an act of healing. Being unsafe to exist and heal because we are too severely under surveillance by the state, and by one another, is killing us. There has to be a way to forgive, to love when identity is under attack. There is endless rehabilitation in a world where there is endless violence, where there is endless horror and fear. I ache for a world where the lines between masculinity and femininity are not so harshly drawn, where the masculine is not seen first and foremost as embodying a violence, where expectations of masculinity are the same expectations for humanity. The beautiful savior, is the one who loves without restriction. “Condition a man (or a woman) to value aggression above all other virtues, and you will produce a character type whose most readily expressed emotion will be anger. Condition a woman (or a man) to value submission above all other attitudes and you will produce a character type whose most readily expressed emotion will be sadness.” ― Sam Keen, Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man We are all on borrowed time when we live in a world that has set so many parameters, expectations and punishments for existing as flawed, as free, as branded with original sin that cannot be absolved. The manufactured and enforced violence of maintaining identity transfixed on rigid bounds and behaviors is ever present, and we can destroy it. There is no original sin that is not carried by anyone with a beating heart. Beautiful boys, beautiful love, boy intimacy, boy softness, boy death, boy life. There is so much love that resides in the hearts of so many isolated and rageful beings. I will always love the boys and the men around me, especially those who are marginalized in some other way, more than I despise the world that has attempted to train so many of them into isolation, into repentance for original sins, into fear that manifests like a rabid dog. I love them. I love you, I love me. There is so much love. "And even if death tracks us down like prey, we mustn't fear it. For we will always be together."

My names Jessica, so duh, I had to watch. Conclusion: Boring. A bunch of people sitting around existing pondering their guilt.