One Hour Fantasy Girl – Review
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It’s an evocative dichotomy: fantasy and reality, and the destruction wrought by the intertwining of these ideals causes an impact which sends ripples through the sordid lives of those who want little more than to live their dreams. One Hour Fantasy Girl examines the paradoxical nature of this simple fact, and offers an introspective glance into the fantasy that was never that far from real in the first place.
One Hour Fantasy Girl follows the lives of Brandi and Chi, business partners looking to break big as a real-estate agent and a recording artist, respectively. The most lucrative course of action being for Brandi to turn soft-core dominatrix tricks for clients, with Chi as a pseudo business partner (See: Pimp). Unfortunately, their plans are all but foolproof.
Edgar Michael Bravo is by no means an amateur. Having been writing and directing since 1992, he has experience under his belt, so quality is of little concern. The overall experience is, for the most part, decent, but problems arise when it begins to feel like Bravo is doing little more than giving indirect homage to Darren Aronofsky in a regurgitated Requiem for a Dream tribute.
The aforementioned problems pushed aside, I was willing to give this movie a chance. It held an interesting enough surface concept that the obvious plot parallels could be easily overlooked, given a good enough execution; the problem here being there wasn’t one. At any given time, I found myself trying to make sense of what was going on, but to much dismay, there was none to be had. Somewhere between ill-placed flash-back shots in a vain attempt to give character exposition, and completely underdeveloped storylines, I gave up trying to translate.
Having a strong impact out the gate, I really wanted to like One Hour Fantasy Girl. Bravo just tried to cram so much into such a small medium, that the end result came out garbled and devoid of any lasting impression. At face value, One Hour Fantasy Girl was a decent film, but the sheer volume of plot elements being crammed into a 90 minute time-span absolutely left my head spinning.
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I watched the film and enjoyed it but agree there were plot holes. In the positive I like how it was a different type of coming of age story with a more disturbing topic that is unusual for others. You could sense the girl’s raw emotion of her struggle to save money to invest in real estate, only I felt like that would never happen for her and felt bad, which means I felt a connection to her. But there were some plot holes. I didn’t quite understand why she would stay in the diner. I understand it was a way to stay inside and safe, but she had her own apt that was safe. I also didn’t understand how and why the black waitress befriended her then took her money, it was undeveloped and didn’t fit in. The end was how it should have been, I didn’t want the Slumdog rags to riches story and the sense of hope was enough. Enjoyable film, something different, but not great. I will be doing a video review touching the same points in this post later in the week.