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Beguiled Company
USA 2021
produced by Tristan James Jensen
directed by Tristan James Jensen
starring Chance Gilliam, Jess Tomasko, Devyn Williams, Gabriel Hawk, Megan Thompson, Nick Schwen, Katrina Blyum, Joel Thingvall, Nick Crossman, Aurelia Edwards, Alex Galick, Tristan James Jensen, Cassandra Jewett, Josh Johnson, Nicole Korbisch, Korrie L'Italien, Mike O'Loughlin, Dario Paredes, Joe Pasutti, Craig Roath, Seth Sobaszkiewicz, Kathy Stamas, Tammy Strecker, Blake Talley, Chris Talley, Gino Terrell
written by Tristan James Jensen, music by Joe Voth
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Brenden (Chance Gilliam) gets fired from his job - and as what he
thinks justified revenge he robs the place the very same night, and gets
away with it even. So he teams up with his best friends Ilisha (Jess
Tomasko), Mason (Devyn Williams), Tino (Gabriel Hawk) and Sydney (Megan
Thompson), and they go on heists, robbing convenience stores and the
likes, seeing themselves as the new Robin Hoods - even if they don't give
the poor but only profit from their heists themselves, and the stores they
rob are hardly "the rich". Soon enough, the friends have
ammassed quite a bit of dough, enough to move out of the shoebox they live
in and into a house where everybody has their own room, really. They throw
a housewarming party, doing more than their fair share of alcohol and
drugs - and only later find out that the ketamine they've taken was
actually toxic. They all survive, but decide to have their revenge on
their pusher Jayce (Nick Schwen) - and they notice a kick out of the
violence that comes with this, so change their m.o. slightly to punish
those they deem guilty - like pedophile Quinton (Joel Thingvall) -,
robbing them blind as a side effect. But of course, every action has its
eventual reaction, and it's not long before they take it too far, one of
them gets shot, and shit comes crashing down on them ... There's
a certain nihilism to this movie that's somewhat reminiscent of A
Clockwork Orange, and both book and movie are mentioned in this one
more than once, but apart from that, Beguiled Company does not try
to imitate the earlier work in any form or way but finds its own path,
telling a well-structured story of a downward spiral, with well fleshed
out central characters who are each given an individual arc. And solid
performances and a directorial effort that finds a balance between action
and atmosphere make this a cool cinematic experience.
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