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Harmony Korine’s Baby Invasion Made Me Sick

In a “let me off the roller coaster before I throw up” way, not a “this is disgusting” way.

But Harmony Korine’s latest marries a first-person perspective to a barrage of other visual noise on screen, including icons, pop-ups, picture-in-picture, and a chat overlay, all accompanied by a throbbing non-stop score by British producer Burial. In the “Origon Story,” a woman in a headset gives an interview about how the first-person shooter she was working on, which involved robbers with baby faces going into homes, was stolen by Romanian hackers and disseminated on the dark web, where it inspired people to emulate it in real life. Korine’s Edglrd films may be meant to represent a break from norms, some “post-cinema” frontier, but there’s still a lot of connective tissue to his earlier filmography, from the clans of disreputable outsiders to the recreational criminality to Florida as a borderland filled with grime, sun-soaked beauty, and vast disparities of wealth.

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