Kinds of Kindness (2024)
Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos
Written by Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthimis Filippou
Starring Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau
Release Date June 21st, 2024
Published July 5th, 2024
Kinds of Kindness is a confounding bit of absurdity. An anthology starring a recurring group of actors, led by Jesse Plemons and Emma Stone, Kinds of Kindness invites you to decide what it all means while presenting a series of seemingly non-sequitur bits of dark comedy, irony, and mild horror. All of the stories, in some way, involve a silent, stoic man known only as R.M.F whose death, attempted murder, and ambiguous fate occur as important aspects of each oddball story.
I am trying to help myself understand just what Kinds of Kindness is all about so this review is filled with spoilers. I need to map this out if I am going to try to understand exactly what it is I saw in Kinds of Kindness. Did I like this movie? Do I have a theory of what it is about? Is the movie simply so absurd that it defies any kind of explanation? I hope that by providing a beginning to end description of these three stories something will emerge as a theme, idea, or theory. Here goes nothing.
Find my full length review at Geeks.Media, linked here.
