American Honey

Reno

January 14, 2017

7/10

**To redefine the life and to discover the love.** From the British director of 'Fish Tank' fame, this is another a young struggling girl's story. Being brought up in a low income and abusive family, and because of that trying to redefine the life. Not about heading the wrong way like drugs and other related stuffs. So this is the story of an older teen girl named Star who flees the home to find her new life and love. It all begins when she meets a youngster in a supermarket and since then sh…

Pointless and terrible film that leads to nowhere. The Director of Fish Tank, was not able to capture lighting in a bottle twice. Most of the movie is spent in a van listening to rap music, the other large part is the boring romance story with a protagonist who seemed better to be a prostitute, then a door to door salesperson. Other characters are introduced but no depth is added to these characters, even though we spend a lot of time in a van with them. The movie doesnt even pay off…

**American Honey (2016)** _Directed by Andrea Arnold_ This is Jack Kerouac for the Millennial generation, the first cohort that can't buy houses, can't find meaningful work, and stares directly into a hopeless, dystopian future with no illusions left. American Honey joins a lineage of films about economic desperation and systemic abandonment — Dogville, Requiem for a Dream, Parasite, for example. But where those films found formal inventiveness or narrative urgency, Andrea Arnold's road mo…