There are five reasons why you should be excited to watch Flower starring Zoey Deutch, and while your five reasons might be different from mine this is what I came up with. If you couldn’t tell by the trailer the female lead will be forming what amounts to a very unstable and somewhat strange bond with her new stepbrother in a way that is highly suspect. While the two of them are linked by marriage the distance between them seems insurmountable until it becomes clear that they’re bound to eventually bond in some way that a lot of people might not understand but can get on board with at the very least. It’s an odd movie, yes, but it should be something that people find themselves laughing at in spite of themselves.
It does have those kind of moments.
5. It’s edgy.
At one point they decide to go and stalk a suspected child molester. That’s edgy for anyone, especially kids that don’t know for certain just what the guy did or why. Plus they run into him at the grocery store, notice him at the bowling alley, and in short just kind of make his life their business no matter how creepy it sounds. And then they decide to try and frame him.
4. It takes on some very disturbing questions about society.
The whole idea of child molesters still being allowed to live within a civilized society is something that a lot of people have an issue with and is cause for concern among a lot of parents. Some don’t want to know about it and some can’t stop obsessing about it. The only trouble is that when they have no reason to believe it they tend to dismiss the idea out of hand.
3. It doesn’t make apologies.
It’s raw, gritty, and overall just in your face in some ways. That’s what a lot of movies seem to miss at times because they try to take into account the feelings and emotions of the audience and then play to them without trying to be too confrontational. Flower doesn’t, it lets you get up close and then nails you with what it has to give. That’s the kind of movie that a lot of people, like myself, wait for at times.
2. It breaks stereotypes.
Step-siblings don’t always get along, child molesters aren’t always so obvious, and recovering addicts are not all skinny twigs that look like they blow over at any moment when a breeze passes by. The movie takes these stereotypes and busts them up in a way that makes the audience decide which pieces they want to pay attention to and which ones they can discard until later. Once again, that’s a movie that a lot of people would enjoy since it allows them to make up their own mind.
1. Zoey Deutch, that’s all that needs to be said.
She’s bound to be a big star one of these days since her loose and easy manner as an actor is something that doesn’t get seen all that often anymore. Watch the movie just for her acting if you must, it’d be worth it.
The movie looks pretty good to be honest.
