Kristen Stewart | A Screenwriters Perspective: Current and Past Movies.

Squalor, a miserable terrible job, homelessness, a bleak and poor future, and extreme depression are all realities that are the beginning of the new movie “Love Lies Bleeding”. This movie starts with the main character Lou, played by Kristen Stewart, with her arm (while wearing rubber gloves) inside a disgusting clogged toilet bowl trying to fix the clog. Perhaps the dilapidated gym she was working in did not have a plunger? This first scene sets the tone of this movie, which is shocking, at times disgusting, vile, and all about the lowest levels of humanity, including even homelessness.

The story is about the lesbian relationship between Lou, and Jackie a female bodybuilder played Katy O’Brian, who starts to use steroids. It is Jackie’s steroid abuse and the domestic abuse suffered by Lou’s sister Beth, played by Jena Malone from her husband JJ, played by Dave Franco that are the main parts of a story that deteriorates into a Shakespearian tragedy involving multiple murders.

There are several scenes of the intense physical relationship between Lou and Jackie, obviously making this film not for children. While the story is good overall, there are the standard “let’s try and be different” insane and delusional visual scenes that are derived from the gross abuse of Jackie’s constant shooting vials of steroids. Some of these scenes are so crazy that anyone could argue they almost ruin the entire movie. Why try so hard to create visual effects that nobody has ever seen before, rather than just concentrate on the quality of the overall story?

Ed Harris, plays Lou Sr, Lou’s father, who is not only the wealthy owner of a gun shooting range but also has most of the police force under his control. Lou’s horrendous poverty, despite her father’s wealth, is due to their severe estrangement and is a source of numerous scenes of rage and conflict throughout this film.

The Rotten Tomatoes ratings for Love Lies Bleeding are way too high 92%, with my rating at 80%, and a recommendation mostly for the acting and the parts of the story that do not include off-the-wall visual scenes that have no business being in any movie.

The problem with the screenwriter and director of the movie “Spencer”, which is about the depressing private life of the late Princess Diana is that when you show her stark, depressing, dark, lonely, boring life – the actual movie is also going to be just as depressing dark and lonely. Who wants to sit for 2 hours watching a dark, lonely depressing and mostly boring life unfold?

This movie is not about the months and weeks before Diana’s untimely death in 1997 while being chased by paparazzi’s in Paris France, or her relationship with Dodi Fayad, or even her bad marriage to Prince Charles. This is a story about a few months in Diana’s life where she was surrounded by old and mostly empty buildings, servants and constant loneliness and depression. Who would have ever thought that getting married to Prince Charles in 1981 and becoming one of the most famous women in the world, would ultimately become the worst thing that ever happened to this woman? The actress Kristen Stewart does not look that much like Diana, or sound that much like her, but she did master many of her subtle mannerisms and because of her acting she might just get an Academy Award nomination.

However, for me this movie was just too boring and depressing for me to recommend it, making it almost impossible to understand the high ratings of 86% on Rotten Tomatoes. I am even surprised the producers would think that this screenplay would be interesting enough to make a movie in the first place.

I disagree with the high critical reviews of this movie and do not recommend Spencer.