Alpha

Firstly, I think I need to rewatch this film. The end of it got a bit too ambiguous. I think I know what happened. But it got very esoteric as if the audience was too young to understand and so it shifted to a metaphor. I think it was meant to be a twist in the end scene but it got confusing.

The film reminded me so much of Requiem for a Dream. So many interconnecting dream sequences. It's hard to figure out if the disease was real or a figment of imagination. The "disease" was more of a backdrop to a story about hurting the people left behind. There was an imbued theme of medical ethics by a hopelessly conflicted Alpha's mum. She is driven by trauma to do her duty.

I really enjoyed the first half and the slow build. The fear and horror of others. There is this almost 80s like paranoia of life is normal but it's really not which affects parents and teachers. It's when the film moves into the second half. That it gets highly disorientating and needed a bit of additional narrative. It's still a very very difficult watch.

Well,the body horror got left behind unlike the two previous features from Julia Ducournau and we ended up with a not so well crafted family drama.

With a cast including Tahar Rahim(A Prophet),Golshifteh Farahani(Extraction) and Emma Mackey(Sex education) and an amazing performance from new talent Mélissa Boros driving through a shaky riddled plot that dosen't seem to care about drawing the whole picture for transparency.

In a world struggling with a new virus that turns you into a roman sculpture like medusa just starred at you,Alpha(Mélissa Boros) is trying to unravel puberty and adolescence on her own while society is throwing crashing tsunami waves of drugs,abuse,bullying in a matter if sink or swim.

A fuzzy feeling forms right on off the intro,followed by a super grainy sharpened picture style with fading colors to emphasise the emptyness of every scene that's already filled with sorrow and sickness as everyone's Frown face just wouldn't turn upside down.

The movie leaps slowly through raw cinematography and scenes with plot holes That get you hopping on a bus not knowing where its heading.

Spiraling out control seems to be the signature of Ducournau flicks but this one seemed to hold back even while demonstrating moral conflicts surrounding the constant pressure that leaks airborne within a family that's dealing with addiction and a coming of age angle that loses meaning and grip among the other elements that try to keep everything real,but adding nothing new to this scope or formula

Not too bad,but not to good either.

Now, when I stumbled upon this 2025 movie titled "Alpha", from writer and director Julia Ducournau, I virtually had no idea what I was in for, aside from it being a horror movie. But given my love of all things horror, of course I needed no persuasion to sit down and give the movie a fair chance.

While there was potential in the storyline, I have to say that writer Julia Ducournau sort of dropped the ball, and the movie ultimately fell short of being overly interesting. Yet, I stuck around for a very prolonged 128 minutes, hoping the movie would pick up and something interesting actually would start to happen. So many things in the narrative were just casually brushed aside without given any in-depth explanations, such as the virus, or how a man can walk about with a back that literally crumbled, and other things.

I was actually not familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list, which I found to be a nice thing, as I do enjoy watching new and unfamiliar talents on the screen. The acting performances in the movie were fair.

The effects in the movie were actually quite good, especially the scene with the biopsy performed on the back. That was definitely the most interesting scene in the entire movie.

The movie was a rather shallow experience, as there simply was too many things easily glanced over without paying much attention to it or bothering to paint it out for the audience. So it felt like a half-hearted movie at best. And thus, it is hardly a movie that I would recommend you to spend 128 minutes on watching, as there simply wasn't enough of interesting contents to the narrative. Trust me, this movie will never find a second play on my screen.

It should be noted that the movie was far too slow paced and long to support a 128 minute runtime. It would have benefitted tremendously from a more round-handed trim in editing.

My rating of writer and director Julia Ducournau's 2025 movie "Alpha" lands on a rather generous four out of ten stars.

This opening scene looks so innocent, and then it becomes completely heartbreaking when you realize exactly what is going on. Be prepared for a shock, as this is unlike anything I've ever seen on film and truly beyond words to describe.

We've now got a refreshing look at family life amongst the trauma these people are facing, and it's wonderfully comforting. I've not seen the underlying epidemic that this family is dealing with from this side, and it's being portrayed in the loudest way I've even witnessed.

The film is visually demanding on the senses, and you can't be sure how to feel or if there is any sense to the madness. In the midst of the tragedy that is the plight of the film, there is a rebellious outpouring showing the will to live.

This film had a fantastic director who shot some beautiful scenes. The story got confused along the way and became nonsensical towards the end. Had great potential but poor execution.

The scenes especially that confuse the continuity of the film should have been cut.

The story should have stuck to the point.