The Neon Demon is a 2016 internationally co-produced psychological thriller film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn and co-written by Mary Laws and Refn and starring Elle Fanning, Christina Hendricks and Keanu Reeves. The plot follows an aspiring model in Los Angeles whose beauty and youth place her in significant danger amongst the women she becomes associated with in the industry, who are murderous and dangerous
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Plot
Jesse (Elle Fanning), an aspiring model, moves to Los Angeles, where she is recruited by a fashion mogul (Alessandro Nivola) as his muse. Upon entering the city's modeling industry, she finds that her vitality and youth are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will use any means to get what she has.
Cast
Elle Fanning as Jesse
Jena Malone as Ruby
Keanu Reeves as Hank
Christina Hendricks as Roberta Hoffman
Abbey Lee as Sarah
Bella Heathcote as Gigi
Karl Glusman as Dean
Desmond Harrington as Jack
Alessandro Nivola as Fashion Designer
Charles Baker as Mikey
Jamie Clayton as Casting Director
I just saw this and... OMG It was pretty twisted and I'm not sure how I felt about the ending but I was mesmerized with it. One of the most interesting films I've seen in a while.
I have mixed feeling when I first walked out of the theater. However, the more I think about it the more the movie makes sense. The highly stylized format of the movie itself reflects the subject matter that the movie accuse fashion industry of. Extremely beautiful, but rotten and vapid in the core. It's kind of a genius representation of objectifying the movie itself.
There are a lot of perverse twists and turns one may not expect coming, which keeps one engage and think.
And oh boy, the soundtrack is DEVINE. Sonic wise it is like a mix baby from Social Network and Under the Skin. The melody can be moody and obscure, but the beats make the sound lucid and determined the same time. Cliff and Nicolas makes the best pair in film making of stylized cinema with visuals and music
It was pretty twisted and I'm not sure how I felt about the ending but I was mesmerized with it. One of the most interesting films I've seen in a while.