Eileen [Blu-ray]

Good movie

I was looking forward to Eileen and i thought it was decent. It's not as good as i thought it would so i guess i was somewhat dissapointed but i still like this movie. It's slow paced and not much happens until the last 30 minutes but i was okay with that because of the two main leads. Thomason McKenzie and Anne Hathaway were both great and i was invested in the characters and their relationship. That side of the movie i really liked and that kept me engaged but for a slowburn, i didn't love the payoff and the ending left me unsatisfied. I think i would've liked this more if it had a better payoff and was 10-15 minutes longer but overall i thought Eileen was a good thriller.

🍿 🍿 (Out of 5)The only reason this film received two popcorns is because of Anne Hathaway’s performance. Creepy, easily enthralling and just amazing to watch her wield this bizarre and motivated character of a psychologist.Directed by William Oldroyd from a screenplay by Luke Goebel and Ottessa MoshfeghBased on the book written by Ottessa Moshfegh – the films is in the1960’s, in Massachusetts where it trails a weirdly set-up relationship between two women working at a juvenile detention facility – one a administrative person and the otherly a Harvard graduate psychologist.The story is bizarre misleading in the direction it starts in, to the direction it goes and finally in the direction it ends in. The characters are unique, but the plot is completely unbelievable if placed in the ‘real world’.The performances of the leads father, besides Hathaway’s incredible performance, Shea Whigham, is actually very convincing as the alcoholic ex-cop gone wrong and forced into retirement. And Siobhan Fallon Hogan, plays a feisty, snarky older member of this boys prison who ads a little humor to the film.However the film’s lead, the young girl who we get to see her weird fantasies throughout the film, is played by Thomasin McKenzie, is a good solid performance, but the story makes me not believe her actions, her reasoning or even her motivation for literally everything she does. Weird.If I remember it was/is billed as a psychological thriller and to me it’s more of a mass of unrealistic actions take by two women in the 19060’s. Good characterizations, but not a realistic environment ‘set-up’ in this fictional story. Wait on this one.

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EILEEN is a slow-burn of a movie, for sure, but it's fascinating nonetheless and rewards the patient viewer with a completely unexpected (but perfectly legitimate) twist in its final third. Very thoughtful attention to period detail (mid-60s, small-town Massachusetts), outstanding mood and mostly careful pacing contribute to the success of the film, but it is the never-less-than-gripping performance of Thomasin McKenzie (LEAVE NO TRACE) and the slightly unhinged work from Anne Hathaway that make this a film well worth the viewer's time.Eileen (McKenzie) is a young lady who returns home to her small town from college when her mother falls ill. As the movie begins, her mother had died and her father, the former police chief of the town, hangs around the house all day, drinking gin and does little other than berate his daughter and occasionally brandish a gun in the neighborhood, yelling at kids. Eileen has a secretarial job at the local boys prison, and spends much of her day gazing at the young men around her (both inmates and staff) and indulging in various fantasies, some involving sex and others involving violence. She is ostensibly her father's care-taker, but other than buying him booze, she doesn't do anything to keep house or to encourage her dad or herself to move forward. She is stuck. Other than her fantasies, it's hard to see that she has an ambition, drive or future.Enter the new prison psychologist, Rebecca (Hathaway), a Harvard grad full of modern ideas. She's been dropped right into a boys and men's club of an institution, where it's clear her new ideas and unconventional approach to work and life will likely just run her into a brick wall of resistance. If the prison is a square hole, she is certainly a round peg. But she's also the electricity that ignites Eileen. Her passions, her interests, her very appearance are transformed when Rebecca shows an interest in her.Eileen is clearly vulnerable to such an outside influence, and it's pretty clear that Rebecca is exploiting this...somehow. We're never quite sure where this relationship might be going, emotionally or physically. But when it reaches a turning point, it's a crazy ride for the viewers. The surprise of the film is delivered in such a matter-of-fact way that we are both shocked and nod our heads in acknowledgment. We didn't see it coming but it makes perfect sense, given what we've seen of these characters.No further plot points will be revealed, but suffice it to say that the final 15 - 20 minutes or so of this film are filled with incredible tension and leave your mind reeling with all the possibilities and potential consequences. Director William Oldroyd (his second film after the even more compelling LADY MACBETH) juggles what is really a lurid genre piece into a gripping character study. We watch Eileen's growth and actions with grim fascination. McKenzie is just terrific in this film and Hathaway chews the scenery to just the right degree. And Marin Ireland makes a great impression in a small but pivotal role.It's not a perfect film. Shea Wigham is fine as Eileen's father, but the role is very one-dimensional. We aren't given a chance to see that man that once was. The other very minor characters in the film are also one-dimensional too. And certainly, even at 96 minutes, one feels the film slackening its pace once or twice. I'm okay with a slow burn, but there are a few minutes of the film where nothing really seems to happen. I'd guess it could have ultimately come in at 91 minutes and not missed a beat. But these are pretty minor quibbles. It was a lot of fun, in the end.

Eileen is 24 years old and still curious. She works as an assistant at the Morehead Boys Prison in Massachusetts. Her father is an ex-cop and extreme drinker. She is curious about Lee Polk an inmate who murdered his father while in bed. He was an ex-cop also. Rebecca (Anne Hathaway) takes over as the prison psychologist. The two quickly become friends in a man's world. Eileen has feelings for Rebecca which Rebecca uses on Christmas Eve.The film moves painfully slow. It centers on Eileen who is sexually frustrated and her drunken father is no picnic to care for as he drinks himself to death. She quietly breaks norms. The boredom is heavy until 65 minutes into the film and then WTF?Guide: F-word. No nudity. Female self-pleasure.