I didn’t realise it was a Nicolas Winding Refn film at first and honestly the trailer looks a bit too avant-garde to have a solid story. I was wrong, it might seems like a deja-vu but yet it is not really something we have seen before. The visuel is definitely an eye-catcher, it is almost too beautifully constructed that we could just put any high fashion name on it and it could totally transform into an advert, Refn consciously put the Logo NWR to mimic that with his recent experience with high fashion perfume ads. [seriously the first few minutes of the film I murmured “Dior, j’adore” the resemblance is too significant.]
Again like Dive (2011), I was attached to the music right from the start, without doubt when we could manipulate these 2 aspects the rest suddenly seems less important. The Neon Demon is not the case. It has a solid story, it might sound hideous but when we put everything together it shines, literally.
It’s a simply story about a beautiful 16 year-old went to LA to become a model, we could have guessed what would happen after. But it is more than that, how an innocent girl turns into a narcissist, how terrifying and cruel the modelling industry is. We could just imagine the harm it entails, the horror of this movie is the reality itself. How we perceive beauty is absolutely horrifying. As it says in the film [beauty isn’t everything, it’s the only thing].
There are so many unforgettable scenes, the shower, the eating the eyeball, the party entertainment… etc. I would dare say The Neon Demon is the most audacious film of 2016. (Yes, not even Elle - Paul Verhoeven.)
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