Her Smell follows Becky Something, lead singer of punk rock group Something She. An arena filling band, they are now working smaller venues, fighting off up and comers. Becky is living the rock n roll lifestyle to the extreme, hard drugs, and strange habits. Unable to keep it all together, we pick her up as the pieces are falling apart.
The first half of the movie deals entirely with the insanity of Becky as she is spiraling further and further out of control. The situations keep getting more and more extreme to where the viewer is left exhausted just watching it all. The second half skips ahead to her a year plus sober, and dealing with the reckoning.
Elizabeth Moss gives an unbelievable performance as Becky. Watching her sink further and further from reality is hard, as it should be. Watching her redemption in the second act is heartbreaking. Worrying about her through the end is nail biting.
Then there are all the people around her. The bandmates, manager, husband, child. All of these characters flesh out Becky's world and what she is putting just not herself, but what she's putting everyone else through.
The only reason this is not a 10 is the length of the movie. To say the movie drags wouldn't be accurate in my opinion, but it could have been edited more tightly. Cutting scenes down to bring the run time closer to the 100 minute mark would have helped the movie, and could have happened without hurting the integrity of the movie.
It also helps to have an interest in the subject matter. If you have no interest in music, and rock in general this may not be the movie for you. If you are into it, give this a shot.
The first half of the movie deals entirely with the insanity of Becky as she is spiraling further and further out of control. The situations keep getting more and more extreme to where the viewer is left exhausted just watching it all. The second half skips ahead to her a year plus sober, and dealing with the reckoning.
Elizabeth Moss gives an unbelievable performance as Becky. Watching her sink further and further from reality is hard, as it should be. Watching her redemption in the second act is heartbreaking. Worrying about her through the end is nail biting.
Then there are all the people around her. The bandmates, manager, husband, child. All of these characters flesh out Becky's world and what she is putting just not herself, but what she's putting everyone else through.
The only reason this is not a 10 is the length of the movie. To say the movie drags wouldn't be accurate in my opinion, but it could have been edited more tightly. Cutting scenes down to bring the run time closer to the 100 minute mark would have helped the movie, and could have happened without hurting the integrity of the movie.
It also helps to have an interest in the subject matter. If you have no interest in music, and rock in general this may not be the movie for you. If you are into it, give this a shot.