6/11/2023 0 Comments Infamous 2020Here’s the bad news: the Clyde to Thorne’s Bonnie is a total dud, and so too for the most part is the rebellious spree they go on, which takes them across America's southland, and with an escalating number of followers with each crime. They quickly gain a lot of followers, because this is America, the script shrugs. In an undersold eureka moment, Arielle decides to film it, and then post it. The two take off from their small Florida town after accidentally killing Dean’s abusive dad, and because they need cash, decide to rob a gas station. This film from writer/director Joshua Caldwell has few good original ideas of its own, and even starts with a stubborn antiquity: Arielle works as a waitress at an old-fashioned diner, and her partner in crime Dean ( Jake Manley) is introduced working on a car, as if he were cosplaying Martin Sheen in " Badlands." Minutes into “Infamous,” Arielle has become convinced that something greater awaits her in Hollywood and has told off her friends, ditched her job, attacked her mom's boyfriend for stealing her money, and paired up with the troublesome Dean. She's the perfect person to take viewers through the looking glass of Instagram infamy, and that's what makes the clumsiness and shallow nature of "Infamous" all the more frustrating. It’s an added bonus to this context that Thorne has her own real-life background as social media master, the kind who gets paid $65,000 for an Instagram post.
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