Monday, February 01, 2021

Review of 'Philophobia'


Not so good high school movie about a boy infatuated with the beautiful but unavailable girl that used to be his next-door friend, and is now the girlfriend of the school bully. Hard to watch - literally, because it was streamed from some independent platform that didn't work so well - but also because the boy and his friends are so stupid in the way that 17-year old boys can be. The girls - and the women, mainly the boys' mums who seem implausibly young and glamorous - don't seem like real people at all, but maybe that's because they are girl/women as imagined by 17-year old boys. The film did rather remind me of what it felt like to be that age, and it wasn't a good feeling for the most part.

Watched on some weird streaming platform called something like Eventbridge, that didn't work very well.

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