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Netflix’s The Electric State Is a $320 Million Piece of Junk
The Russo brothers used to be pretty good with comedy. What the hell happened?
The story follows Michelle (Millie Bobby Brown), a juvenile delinquent and foster kid who lost her parents and her beloved genius younger brother, Chris (Woody Norman), in a car accident some years ago. Watching Brown try to take the role of Michelle seriously — the tough rebel, made tender by a reconnection to her tragic past — one feels a weird twinge of secondhand embarrassment for the performer, as if the whole film had been designed as a dry, cruel joke on her. And yes, the film has an out-of-nowhere pop soundtrack that includes the Flaming Lips’ “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots” and an orchestral version of Oasis’s “Wonderwall.” But there’s something genuinely absurd about spending that much money to make a movie look this bad.
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