Aggro Dr1ft

Beautiful to look at and listen to, transfixing, impressionistic, striking, often a little tedious, unnerving, intense and hilarious. Probably unlikely to appeal to anyone who isn’t a major Korinehead, but it’s a unique and absorbing experience that despite a lot of ironic laughs never feels less than achingly sincere. The visual style evolves in so many fascinating and gorgeous ways and the score is excellent. Honestly wasn’t expecting to love this, but Korine don’t miss.

As experimental as Korine's works of the aughties or moreso, Aggro is shot in all-infrared cameras and aided by A.I, and more crucially, the script is deliberately inarticulate, obstinate and disjointed in a weird mockery of contract-killer movie clichés. This won't leave you indifferent, you will either get it for the psychedelic piece of video art that it is, or absolutely hate it.

Predator vision: the movie.

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

Was this destined to be something I appreciated more than I liked? Probably. It's certainly unlike anything I've ever seen before, and Korine laid claim to genuine auteur status long before this. Ultimately, I'm a movie-goer who is very driven by narrative and performance, as much as I appreciate great visuals and other elements, and I think even ardent fans of this will admit that the narrative isn't the strong suit here. A bold experience, but doesn't give me what I'm looking for. So it goes.

JOHN-WICK-Harmony-Korine-style. It does have a hypnotic effect, and one can imagine that in the cinema it could have the potential to induce a kind of trancelike state, although some of the (probably intentionally) sillier moments do tend to bring the viewer back to critical consciousness. In other words, whether one sees this as 21st-century video art or kitsch is more or less a matter of personal taste. Could work effectively as part of an installation, for those into that type of scene.

actually it would have been a masterpiece, yet Korine still finds a way to make his films silly. But what a damn movie, still luv it.

The visuals (infrared, extreme reds, blues, AI-generated imagery, the washed out look) evoke hell, basically. If you look at this as a terrible guy in a terrible, almost alternative world (since most of us will never know what it's like to be an assassin), then everything about it makes sense, even the disgusting, repetitive, even childish dialogue or actions. It's rumination in cinematic fashion, eternal suffering. Awesome, nightmarish OST too. Korine was going for vibes, he nailed it.