The movie starts slowly as we get to know Ani, through her actions, inner monologue, and a series of flashbacks.
We get hints that she has suffered a terrible trauma while at an expensive high school, but has done her best to push all of the trauma down.
Her resulting life is hollow, obsessed with status, and her writing focused on sexualizing every topic.
That Ani is finally forced to confront her trauma, to let it ooze out of the dark corners where she's repressed it, is predictable. The story, however, is not nor is her reaction.
Not to give anything away, but the movie confronts a serious, important subject and gets better as it moves along.
Acting and editing are highlights. Visuals, however, are rather dull.
(This, however, may be on point as well given how the character lives life at a distance every day since high school.)
I'm glad I didn't go to see this in a theater, but it's a solid enough movie to screen on Netflix, with a follow up conversation in your friend-group almost mandatory.
