Crawl’s heart thrums with the unique beat that is Florida itself. And, as advertised, there are alligators-toothy and ravenous. There is also their cute family dog, Sugar. Not so luckily, she finds her dad stuck in a crawl space where the water is slowly rising. Luckily for Haley, she is an aspiring collegiate swimmer so she probably won’t drown while she trudges through flooded street after flooded street. In it, Haley Keller (Kaya Scodelario) returns home from college during a category 5 hurricane, searching for her father, Dave Keller (Barry Pepper), whom she’s unable to get a hold of. Directed by Alexandre Aja ( The Hills Have Eyes, High Tension, Horns) and written by Shawn and Michael Rasmussen, Crawl is a horror-thriller set in the heart of Florida.
It is the most fun I’ve had in a theater since John Wick 3. Kyle TurnerĬrawl, unlike Jaws, is actually just a movie about people vs. When the film switches from 35mm to digital in its final shots, Baker imbues his camera, now mobile, with freewheeling liberation: No matter what happens after The Florida Project ends, in those last moments, these kids are born to live. To what degree you believe Baker to be condescending or patronizing or exploitative is up to you, but the film’s bursts of light, its idea of what caregiving looks like when caregiving is a privilege, is handled with sensitivity. The Florida Project is spattered with profound sadness, with moments of externalized, violent frustration at presumed helplessness, at practically being born into all this. The film may be buoyed with a sense of humor and, occasionally, wonder, but Halley’s life is framed by an internal struggle over whether humor and wonder can help her retain her autonomy at all in spite of her class status.
Baker never interferes the equality of these scenes under the eye of his camera makes his film’s pointed ideas about survival and joy all the more striking.
Nothing climactic happens in these scenes, we just get to watch and not pass judgment-or pass judgment, whatever, it’s up to us. The camera lives with the characters, watches them haul a bed-bug-infested mattress outside, or sit and eat pancakes by a small creek-ish ditch. Baker plunges his audience into his worlds through the lens of social realism, his camera on the same playing field as Moonee (Brooklynn Prince), her mother Halley (Bria Vinaite) and the manager of the motel they live in, Bobby (Willem Dafoe). However useful a surreal approach to reframing paradise may be, Sean Baker’s The Florida Project presents a more acute critique. Stars: Willem Dafoe, Bria Vinaite, Brooklyn Prince, Valeria Cotto, Christopher Rivera, Caleb Landry Jones
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