bigteddybacon Review of Border

Border (2018)

I wanted to like it more than I did, unnecessarily edgy *spoilers*

[5/10 · 29 April 2019]

The fact that it was so bizarre, I can cope with. I like bizarre, but the thing that lost me was the baby-raping angle. It's completely unnecessary to drive the plot forward. Vore could have been guilty of any number of terrible crimes to convince the viewer that Tina could not morally coexist with, and they chose "selling stolen children into baby-raping human trafficking rings". They picked the worst, most disgusting crime possible for no reason, in my opinion, other to be shocking and edgy. It's so deliberately "the worst thing you can possibly think of" that it literally ruins the movie for me. The movie was bizarre and surreal enough to carry it just fine without this hack edgelord BS.