This is the creepiest thing Keener’s done since Get Out. weirdo but is actually a 900-year-old spirit who has been hopping bodies and creating zombie servants for herself.
Brand new cherry flavor movie#
The more we learn about the movie Lisa made, and the effects it had on the actress who starred in it, the more we come to understand that Lisa’s power is what caused Boro’s attention to fall upon her in the first place.Ĭatherine Keener plays Boro, who presents herself to Lisa as an eccentric L.A.
There are a lot of references in the story to Lisa’s childhood in Brazil, her mysterious, absent mother - who may have been some sort of deity herself - and dreams of the forest where a faceless entity tries to communicate with her. Perhaps Lisa is tied into the mystical and Boro is not so much helping her as she is feeding off of her. Rose Salazar, who you may remember from Alita: Battle Angel, is at her strongest and most interesting here when Lisa is fully in the grip of spiritual madness. The farther down the rabbit hole she travels, the more Lisa comes alive. What is surprising, and what causes her to cross the threshold into the arcane, is the strength of her desire for revenge. It’s no real surprise when an actual bad thing happens to her. She’s low energy and can’t muster excitement even as it seems like her Hollywood dreams are about to come true. When we’re introduced to Lisa Nova, a student filmmaker on her way to LA for her Big Break, she seems like a person who is used to bad things happening to her. By episode four, I was already planning a rewatch of Mullholland Drive and Lost Highway. How easy it is to slip across the boundary from one world into the other when you follow your worst intentions is also a reoccurring theme in Lynch’s work.
How music and sound - or lack thereof - emphasize the terrors hidden in our mundane world and in plain sight in the occult world that the main character, Lisa Nova, finds herself traveling through.
The way that light and color palettes are used as scenery to build characters and also to denote the passage from one world into another is something that Lynch has mastered through his career. Additionally, I want to give a content warning, for the show, for elements of body horror, and a really bad beating our protagonist takes in the 5th episode.īrand New Cherry Flavor owes a lot to David Lynch. All of my impressions are based solely on the show. Before I get into my thoughts on Netflix’s creepy new magical revenge thriller, Brand New Cherry Flavor, I want to mention that I have never read the book.
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