The trailer for Lowlife looks absolutely crazy as it goes into what can go wrong during a caper involving an organ harvesting operation. The film just looks like all kinds of wrong as a woman actually seems to give permission to a man that looks as shady as can be to take one of her daughter’s kidneys. There’s also a man with a swastika tattooed on his face, all over his face in fact, that doesn’t make a lot of sense. Obviously it will if one watches the movie but from the outset it just looks crazy. The film almost has the appearance of something like Spun, being absolutely nuts without a lot of redeeming value, but there’s at least some interest since the cinematography seems to be done well enough that it’s watchable without getting a severe headache.
Apart from that it just looks nuts. Why there’s a luchadore in the movie is hard to fathom but he seems to be playing a very critical role so it’s got to be assumed that he was needed in some context or else the writer just decided to throw in a strange, random character that becomes crucial to the plot. The number of people running around with guns is out of control and the idea of harvesting body parts is something that seems like it belongs in this movie since it’s just about as crazy and messed up as anything you’ll see in the rest of the trailer. That’s why it seems appealing though, since it’s not going to formula, at least not from what the trailer shows.
Utter chaos can happen when a film doesn’t have set plan and formula to go off of. If there’s no real script and no plan to go by then the type of anarchy that can happen can absolutely ruin a movie. But if someone comes along and produces a screenplay that doesn’t make a lot of sense in the trailer it could possibly grab the attention of someone that’s surfing the web and interest them enough to give it a look. Plus terms like ‘lowlife’ do tend to get noticed when they’re affixed to movies, since people do enjoy drama and the occasional sad story no matter how messed up it gets. People thrive on misery as well as happiness and contentment, and if anyone says different then their happy pill likely just kicked in and they’ve become oblivious to the wider spectrum that is humanity. People love to see misery and drama in the movies, they pay for it, they expect it, and they’ll crowd a theater or download a movie an untold number of times just to see it. It’s an immutable part of human nature to see someone else suffering and call it ‘need-to-know’.
That probably seems morbid and it really is but movies like thrive off of the morbidity that they offer since so many people are bound to watch this kind of movie at least once. It’s the sheer curiosity that gets most people.
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