Sebastian Stan He is gradually moving away from his role as a superhero (The Winter Soldier) to share his acting record with other types of viewers. His career growth is appreciated as he takes steps to move away from Marvel’s shadow. If he stayed below that wouldn’t be a problem, but his work might be affected. Coststhe latest Disney Plus movie, is one of them.
This production follows his success as Pam and Tommythe mini-series also developed by Disney Plus, in which he plays Tommy Lee. From this black comedy to Costs, playing Steve, an attractive doctor who approaches different girls in a way not so common these days: in person, without applications. During this trip, he meets Noa, played by Daisy EdgarJones.
She’s a girl with an indebted love life, yearning to connect with someone beyond digital (although her main contact with men is through that space). Next, Steve appears as this close and warm person, at a time when she gives free rein to this kind of experience.. The plot encourages the exploration of several themes throughout the film, which begins as a kind of romantic comedy and ends up being a horror film.
Costs and review of dating apps
For years, apps like tinder Yes buzz They don’t stop growing. Friendships that say they have met this or that means, the normalization of a new mode of relationship that never ceases to offer doubts. On these is thrown Costs. Without going overboard (which would have been convenient), the film can be understood as a critique of the type of relationships that can be developed through the application or lack of consent when sharing intimate photographs, resulting in a form of violence.
Noa serves as a vehicle to open this type of debate. The film doesn’t aspire to position itself as a critical essay on the subject, but it does say enough to trigger different thoughts. Above all, seen from the female side, the most vulnerable when it comes to dating people who, beyond certain messages, remain unknown. Like Steve, who poses as the ideal she seeks and then, like classic Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, turns into something unwanted by her (or anyone).
This film premiered at sun dance festival during the critically acclaimed month of January. One of the reasons for doing so is this transformation experienced by its protagonists and, along the way, the film.
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Narrative contrast and other winks
With a clean atmosphere, in open spaces, Costs it gradually “locks itself up” in smaller rooms, with less and less intense light. This stranger couple continues to be, but different circumstances mean they can’t be separated. Related to the above, the film goes back to its premise, shouting out the different risks a woman runs when she goes out on the streets and, at the same time, tries to lead a normal life.
Mimi’s Cave, its director, composes an understandable and effective story; may be the most accomplished of his career. Although everything that has been said may suggest that Costs it’s a rigid film, it’s not in the most formal sense. Steve’s character has a few flashes of humor, Mollyperformed by Jonica T. Gibbsa gay friend of Noa, functions as a symbol of sororitywhile the film’s denouement leads to violence unthinkable for much of the story.
Cave’s camera emerges from these closed spaces to open onto a field where the violence between the actors becomes explicit, after having exposed Steve as a sort of Hannibal Lecter modern, obsessed with women’s flesh. A solid allegory on machismo and contemporary global society, where women continue to be a kind of prey conditioned by so many ceilings. In this context, Costs It’s a story that resonates well with the present, looking at it with a critical eye.
Costs is available on Disney+ from April 15.
