Nocturnal Animals was super weird. It was comprised of two different worlds: the real life of Amy Adams' character and the world of the manuscript that her ex-husband has sent her to read. Both of these worlds feels sort of hyper-real and exaggerated in their own ways. I can't tell if everything about the movie was supposed to feel kind of fake and glossy or if that is simply how designer Tom Ford sees the world. I'm sure his experience of every day life is quite different from mine, so who knows?
There is an interesting mystery that takes place at first, wondering how the book world will relate to the real one and waiting to find out what horrible thing Amy did to her ex-husband in the past, but in the end the mystery didn't pay off for me.
Michael Shannon is completely bizarre and yet authentic in his role. His performance does feel like the one thing in this film that cuts through all of the pretense; I can see why he stood out.
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