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<\/a>Knives and skin is a melted ice cream cake of a movie.\u00a0 I don’t know wither to love this movie or hate it.\u00a0 Or Love it, for hating it!\u00a0 While attending the AFI Fest Film Festival 2019 I met a film revue blogger who said he hated it, because it was just a movie.\u00a0 Perhaps we Americans should watch this movie to see all the possible ways our pop and material culture morphs itself into bad behavior toward one another, prescription drug abuse, psychosis and other of our darkest \u00a0idiosycracies.\u00a0 This film is made in Chicago with local Chicago thespian talent.\u00a0 The director\/screenwriter, Jennifer Reeder attended the AFI\u00a0fest late-night screening and also lives in Chicago.\u00a0 The reason why I mention this is, before the internet, when I was growing up in rural Wisconsin the biggest retailers were Sears, Wards and JcPennys.\u00a0All these\u00a0mail order catalog companies were\u00a0based in Chicago, Il.<\/p>\nReeder takes a cataloged approach to what is wrong with human behavior in America and incorporates this into a full feature film.\u00a0 So I can spend more time on the script, Knives and Skin is about a teenage high school girl who goes missing in a typical suburb of a mid-western rust-belt city.\u00a0 Just like my favorite film of the festival, “Family Matters” directed by Mateo Bandowsky, Ms Reeder also classifies here movie as magical realism.\u00a0 I’m not 100% convinced.\u00a0 However, just like Bendowsky, she has done several “shorts” before<\/span> venturing into full features this year.\u00a0 I will say this, it is a creative screenplay on social pressures and pressure to be popular at any cost at schools all across America but especially in the suburbs.\u00a0 Social problems use to be the main domain of urban cities in America, but those problems have moved out into the suburbs and rural areas.\u00a0 This movie has all the family dysfunction and psychosis on display and it should scare the hell out of you.\u00a0 One family is totally psychotic and you go through each family member and say they could have done it.<\/p>\n The costumes in this movie run the gamut.\u00a0 After all this is a large cast of local Chicago land high scholars but the adults have their own costume fetishes too.\u00a0 The girls<\/span> in the choir, two of which develop a lesbian relationship while in high school.\u00a0 Some people, even in the LGBTQIA<\/span> community might protest how some of the characters are presented.\u00a0 Despite that, the group Allout was a sponsor of the showing.\u00a0 The social scientist in all of us should soberly watch this film.\u00a0 Maybe then, we can start to address family life, school life, social\u00a0life\u00a0in a responsible matter that avoids unpopular and anti-social behaviors..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reviewed by Gordon Gerbitz, Viewed at AFI Fest 2019. Knives and skin is a melted ice cream cake of a movie.\u00a0 I don’t know wither to love this movie or hate it.\u00a0 Or Love it, for hating it!\u00a0 While attending the AFI Fest Film Festival 2019 I met a film revue blogger who said he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247813,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afi-filmfest-2019","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/247813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45121"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45346,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45121\/revisions\/45346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}