Blink Twice

Zoë Kravitz wrote and made her directorial debut with this twisted tale of a wealthy man and his friends who invite pretty and adventurous young ladies to his island for an extended party of food, booze and drugs. One cannot avoid the comparison to the real legacy of Jeffrey Epstein. Was it Kravitz's intention? I don't know.

Channing Tatum is the wealthy man, as the movie opens there is a big party and he is returning after a time of, it seems, self-exile. He needed to get his stuff together and he is very apologetic. Then he seems to randomly invite some young ladies to join his group for a flight to his private island.

While I would not necessarily call this a "dark comedy", it has very dark themes and it contains a number of darkly funny scenes. I suppose only a female writer-director could get by presenting all that is embodied here.

My wife and I watched it at home, on DVD from our public library. Because of the themes it is not a movie that I feel good saying "I enjoyed" but I sort of did enjoy it. Especially the last few scenes.

(Note, if anyone reads my comments and doesn't know or remember who Jeffrey Epstein was you need to look him up and realize the parallels to the fictional story here.)