Daddy Issues

This movie blew my mind. It was so raw and real and the actors did such an amazing job. The weird quirkiness is what really made me love this film. I highly recommend this to anyone who came to read reviews before watching this. 10/10

Maya is a lesbian neet artist who's sexually inexperienced and obsessing over an instagram influencer (jasmine) who she goes to a party to meet. Jasmine saves her from a creepy guy and maya falls even more in love. Jasmine has a sugar daddy who she has an ABDL relationship with, who turns out to be maya's long lost dad. Things get weird because feelings aren't mutual, and, because jasmine has sexual relationships with 2 related people.

I like watching movies about queer sexuality and the camera work and editing for this was beautiful but styling and character development felt simplistic and flat. Maya clearly wears things inspired by pastel jfashion, fairy kei, etc, but her outfits look like they were bought in a 20 minute mall trip. All the characters felt like they could've had more complexity and depth, as it stands, they all felt one dimensional. Maya and jasmine's relationship is questionable the entire time- common in queer relationships especially with inexperienced partners- but i wish the negative and mismatched-emotions of their relationship had more story, background, intensity, and grit.

This is the director's first film so i'm hoping future movies from her feel more fully developed and with more than superficial style.

Acting of two women leads - quite good. Natural. Im surprised they dont have a bigger portfolio of successful works.

Supporting cast, mediocre to okay. So even more kudos to the leads for carrying this and making up for their co-actors somewhat janky performances.

Found the stop motion jarring and unnecessary. Glad that stopped in the first acts. Maybe trying to film manic feelings? If so, then was a little overused.

Self destructive relationship behaviour: pretty realistic A nice balance of some hard emotions and happy emotions. Never felt overwhelming either way.

The ending during credits was quite charming. Except for the somewhat silly painting.

Overall, 7 seems like a fair rating for this. But I can understand the opinions of people who loved and hated it. It's certainly a tricky film for wide appeal. It has elements that will speak to certain minorities (lost young kids, the Euphoria crowd, others). But it also has elements that are likely to offend, and enough moments that some will find improbable and ridiculous.

I can forgive the improbable since it serves to make the story entertaining. But dont take it too seriously. This is an odd mix of serious and silly. And for the most part, the director/writers manage to pull it off. But yes, I understand the 1 ratings. And the 10s.

Entitled pink haired princess and her father engage in a love triangle of degeneracy. Nothing is learned, its not self aware enough to be satire, its just a weird pandering film of millennial entitlement and excess.

This movie was the most vapid portrayal of human devolution that I've ever seen. Maya was a giant pity party, not wanting to take any responsibility for herself or her circumstance. Jasmine was nothing more than a leech, out for a free lunch. I want the hour and twenty minutes of my life back.