![]() It’s observing authentic characters in a realistic situation. This scene is particularly impactful because previously, the film was presented through a purely objective lens. It’s not the film that is objectifying Strawberry it’s just Mikey. It’s difficult to stomach how Mikey perceives the world, and more importantly, how he views women. Baker wasn’t trying to make Mikey empathetic, but the dream sequence of Strawberry is the first time the viewer sees things from his point of view. Mikey continues to fantasize about his future, even when he has all the odds stacked against him. Whether Mikey actually reaches Strawberry’s house, if she agrees to join him and whether he brings her with him to California are all left to the viewer’s interpretation.īaker said that he chose to show Mikey’s vision of Strawberry to dissect the male gaze. However, Red Rocket ends before either character’s ultimate fate is revealed. As he reaches his destination, Mikey has a vision of Strawberry in a red bathing suit. He knows that he’ll have to be quick once he gets there. Leondria gives Mikey $200 and tells him to never return to Texas City. ![]() He barely manages to escape and runs naked through the neighborhood. Leondria's daughter, June ( Brittney Rodriguez), and her brothers show up at Lexi’s house to threaten Mikey. Mikey has been selling marijuana for Leonadria, and Lexi tells her to take back the $3,000 that he had earned while dealing for her. She contacts Mikey’s old acquaintance Leondria ( Judy Hill). After telling Lexi, who he started sleeping with again, his ex-wife is furious. Overall, it's a complete sleazeball of a film with zero redeemable characters and an excessively smutty story.Mikey’s big plan is to bring Strawberry to Los Angeles with him and help launch her career in porn. And I'm sorry, but watching him try to groom a hardly legal 17-yr-old girl into a relationship with him and into the porn industry did not sit right with me at all! The story is wandering and aimless and just feels all-around pointless and like a whole lot of nothing by the time the credits rolled. I couldn't have cared last about any of these hicks, and while Rex undeniably gives a confident, albeit rather cocky (no pun intended) lead performance, even he's near impossible to root for or sympathize with, causing trouble and BS everywhere he goes throughout the film from start to finish. The film starts off humorous and intriguing enough, but the further it goes on, the more trashy, sleazy, and all-around smutty and gratuitous it becomes to the point of no return. He did this with 'The Florida Project' as well, and he does it again here to somewhat amusing effect. Baker's the kind of director who specializes in what I like to refer to as "white-trash cinema", films that specialize in detailing the lives of the lower class and ghetto small towns and the poor sleazy people that live there. There, he encounters his estranged wife, drug dealers, job-hiring difficulty, and a potential new romantic interest in a young 17-yr-old donut shop girl. In this raunchy indie comedy, and directed by Sean Baker ('The Florida Project'), Simon Rex stars as Mikey Saber, a washed up porn star who returns to his small Texas hometown in hopes of getting by and starting anew. ![]()
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