Archie Madekwe Shines in Tale of Obsession

A moral story turned around the intelligence of her head, “LarkerIt opens with an introduction: the protagonist, Matthew (Tudor Bilrin), Wandering around the video of a friend. When the person holding the camera ask Matthew about the place where he sees himself within five years, Matthew honestly responds. “I already have everything I want,” says he was stealing a look at the lens.

Weighting to the previous times, when Matthew lives with his grandmother and works as a retail employee in a clothing store in Los Angeles. At Walks Oliver (Archie Madekwe), a pop artist is famous enough to cause a puff between the store’s shepherds. Matthew, who is vulgar with expectation, emanates on a path that impresses the great characters, and the next thing that is known to be folded in the small footnotes, the small kinetic of unnamed friends and unlucky collaborators enough to accompany Oliver on his trips.

So it begins an example of mania and unit associated with such an instant, so that its relatively low shares begin to feel life or death. In an advantage for the first time, the writer/director Alex Russell (who wrote for the series “Dave” and “The bear”) greatly picks up the dynamics of complex hierarchical friendships, where he can fear fear of alienation and passion for people belonging to people the brink of the abyss. The greatest achievement of the film is his interest in the nuances of how these men use the ridicule or contempt for ascending to their narrow social ladder – and if “LarkerUltimately, it succumbs to some species ponds and a handful of story bumps, as it compensates for their restrictions in Perspical and the total of the filmmaking.

After Matthew attracted Oliver’s attention in the store, he quickly wanders. Soon after, he makes himself useful about the Star’s Los Angeles plate, performing homework and absorbs a circle of his comrades. At this point, Matthew is still at the bottom of the attackers, which is an accessory and Acolyte who understands his stop’s appetite. We are witnessing his brutal despair to keep his position in the scenes at home, as he screams in his grandmother so that he does not cut him while he is on the phone and returns Oliver videos to study his taste and customs. There is a derivative feeling for these last moments; We have seen pictures of the blind mania before, and at this stage of the movie, you may ask where the relatively familiar messenger will take.

These social hierarchical serials turn into a strong scene in the pastures. Oliver crew to make a music video, but soon in filming, realizes the video photographer Noah (Daniel Zolgdri talented) that he is not replaced by camera batteries. A chance sensor, Oliver comes out of the old video of his grandmother and suggested that he hang it with the head of the sheep to get a snapshot from a point of view. It is an average idea at best, and the formation is completely dependent. But this does not matter Oliver, who takes the idea and his approval is the only one that concerns. The scene proves funny and effective, a point that Matthew seems to seem to be any flexible power structure if you are ready to challenge Shibbanlets.

All the time, Russell and photographer Pat Skula (“Pig”, “Sing Sing”) explains a strong understanding of the place where the camera is placed to calibrate a better perspective and passion. One of the unforgettable examples after Matthew has climbed to the position of Oliver man, and even his friend, Jimmy (the sunny Solgik from the “mid -1990s”, called to the music industry party. A relative innocent, Jimmy ends with Oliver’s footnote, which raises Matthew’s anger. While Oliver and his friends, they are ridiculed (mockery) on the ugly Jimmy jimney jacket, coach Scola’s camera on Matthew’s face, and they acquire shades of envy, calm and panic. This aesthetic finds the auditory natural result in Kenneth Bloom swelling, the spectral result, which exchanges between the villain and euphoria.

Oliver-who is a singer and songwriter at Gen-Z-CUSP A-LA Dominic Fike-begins the story as a somewhat clear character. He has the influence that he has on those around him, which explains his tendency to manually choose fans and convert them into Lackeys. However, with the development of the story, Russell shows how Oliver’s fame is a strange experience. Through the small appearance and the delivery of the lines, Madekwe shines as he drinks Oliver with the true weakness of a young man who tends to doubt himself and his work, which distracts himself from discomfort by searching for continuous pleasure.

Pellerin, who may be famous for its “rarely not always always” match, is a match that deserves Madekwe. It is a talented physical performer, with its amazing frame and the large hands filled with useful tools as it turns from anxiety to anger and return again. Matthew and Oliver alignment are thrown as crafts in severe rest simply film It reaches a somewhat far -fetched turning point. Events – which all skip the film, be afraid that the viewer begins to question the reasonableness – the transformation of the tables so that Oliver becomes filled with the whims of Matthew, instead of the opposite. In the prosperity of the explosion, Russell records this face with the song James & Bobby Purify “IM Your PUPPET.” Later, the director takes the thermal trend further when the defeats are from Oliver and Matthew for the visual domination in a homogeneous wrestling match.

These subsequent scenes of the struggle of power suffer from some unequal compared to their former counterparts, which attract the fine details of social maneuver better than most of them. However, when the third action finally reaches, Russell is worthy of making a bold decision to deprive his characters in their backs and instead ended the movie in a satirical note. “Lurker” is a movie about the only young people who know that at the top of their social stairs, more void awaits them. However, they continue to climb them all.

Row: B+

“Lurker” was shown in 2025 Sandans Film Festival. It is currently seeking to distribute us.

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