looks amazing. tight editing. fantastic acting. unconventional and strong politically-conscious direction. choice credits style. the scene at the school scared the crap out of me. this film is savage. um yeah that song, the first one, uhg, so beautiful. the later songs are hilarious and have much capitalist commentary, and also kinda bangers amirite? :p sia! rant incoming: i read this film in a marxist lense of anti-capitalism, and it is very rewarding. the tie between the devil and capitalist corruption of the individual on a perverse level, within the music industry and within celebrity. the reification of a person into a kind of commodity actor in a social marketplace. i mean, when capitalism is brazenly introduced as its own character in the film it's hilarious. when the men on the beach are shooting with the masks featured in celest's music video:(loss of innocence), that also signified an explicitly shallow & capitalistic - pop turn, the movie essentially depicts "capitalism kills" in a visual metaphor. the evil music signifying a demonic force is chilling to the shocking drama of the set-piece. the part where josie, the manager, said that news of the terror attack prompted commentary to the description of: "radical reaction to corruption of the west." a quite fascist position... the attack could be said to have been performed by a kind of fascist radicalist that is spawned from the interpretation of decadence and degeneration, (that is, capitalism) against the cultural traditionalism & spiritual nationalism (that fascists prefer). traditions that were in-fact perverted by market forces. but, of-course, if you're a neonazi you interpret that into economic anti-semitism... the terror attack itself perhaps represents capitalism's relationship to fascism in a culture war (& subsequently religious-war-causing) sense. in the sense of nationalist impulse as-well. in this film, they talk about late stage capitalism and neoliberalism but they also talk about decadence and rebirth, which is highly fascist. so the fascist satanism in this film would probably make the film as appealing to an "alt-right" perhaps, as much as it appeals to me from a left perspective for other and kind-of similar reasons(?) reasons (fascism is evil, but true fascists would wear that 'evil' as a badge of pride (because they're losers)). okay, i hope you enjoyed reading this, and i bid you good day! ;) [edit:] i heavily edited this review because i was stoned when i wrote it; kind of rambled-on and stopped talking about the film. despite enjoying some of it, it was just excessive and i felt a bit embarrassed for myself, to be honest. anyway, still a pretty staunch review if i do say so?