Fresh

Like every year, there comes a short season where the high temperatures are so unbearable that the brain stays at a minimum and asks for things that don’t require too much effort, just having fun. And the movie Today, despite having been released for some time now, I haven’t had the opportunity to use it until now, at which point it seemed like the perfect option. I’m talking about fresh.

After failed online dating, Noa is about to throw in the towel at the idea of ​​meeting someone until she runs into Steve at a supermarket. After this pleasant encounter, they both agree on a date when their relationship seems to be going further. Steve proposes to Noa a little romantic getaway, where Noa will discover her new partner’s unusual appetites.

As much as its premise suggests that it is a thriller that then fully embraces terror, it is appreciated that during the first half hour the movie it is assumed as an indie romantic comedy that deals with the difficulties that can arise as a result of dating through certain applications, especially the fear of some people or profiles that are in these applications and that with a few clicks can generate great discomfort; the conflict that the search for more romantic love can cause if you can’t even generate an emotional connection or if it’s possible to meet someone out of nowhere and generate that connection almost instantly. This reflection allows to give wings to the main and secondary characters and makes the spectator create a bond a little deeper with them due to the familiarity of the situations and the more sympathetic tone of comedy that it proposes.

The tone begins to darken as Steve breaks into Noa’s life. The more you get to know Steve, some alarms start going off for good reason. And is that in a world where everyone’s life is focused to a greater or lesser extent on social networks, their absence is usually a good reason to be suspicious. For this reason, once the half hour has arrived, Steve shows his true face, becoming a nightmare for Noa, opening an interesting melon that not only do we have to be suspicious of relationships created through cell phones to some extent, because the danger striking up a relationship with a chance encounter is also highly plausible. From that moment on, the initial romantic comedy takes on that sickening thriller aspect, but, in its strange way, it doesn’t abandon the comic tone that accompanied the film. headband so far, the mid-film credits being a good example of the casual tone where the clearest references would be american psychopath s cannibaljust from a more feminine perspective with the horrors that angle entails.

Perhaps the radical break from one genre to another can take more than one by surprise and the truth is that the mix of genres doesn’t always end up flowing as naturally as the story demands, but it results in a strange hybrid that doesn’t cut the violence and shows just how grim the situation is, but always with a tone of dark humor (with a rather eclectic and acidic soundtrack that adds to that feeling) that makes the whole not feel overly unbearable or heavy. In fact, once the first hour is over, there’s even more intrigue as to which direction the characters are going to take and how complicated things can get, leaving the viewer intrigued until the last minute.

Because Noa and Steven, in addition to being the two main characters, are also less complex characters to unravel, having actors capable of capturing these nuances and always being in accordance with the indicated tone is decisive. and away sebastian stan knows how to get the most out of Steven by drawing the line between the sociopath and the charming street kid, who is the absolute protagonist of the headband That is Daisy Edgar Jones like Noa, a girl who could be any other girl’s avatar because of her desire for independence, wanting to make things right, rejecting that idea of ​​romantic love, but at the same time not being able to help looking him up and knowing how to play the game. game perfectly, such a dangerous game where she gets involved with Steven, creating a character with many edges and all fascinating.

In short, it is a movie very entertaining that within its macabre revelation and pessimistic approaches it always manages to maintain a latent black humor that gives lightness to the whole and leaves the viewer with good taste in the end.