Fair Play (2023) Netflix Movie Review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ส.ค. 2024
- An unexpected promotion at a cutthroat hedge fund pushes a young couple's relationship to the brink, threatening to unravel far more than their recent engagement. Phoebe Dynevor, Alden Ehrenreich, Eddie Marsan, and Rich Sommer star in this psychotically dysfunctional look at a dissolving relationship. Fair Play premiered at Sundance in 2023 and is now on the Netflix platform. Should Fair Play have a place on your watchlist? Thanks for checking out my Fair Play (2023) Netflix Movie Review!
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My couch rating system:
5 - A must-watch - do not pass this one up
4 - It's really good, you should see it
3 - It's OK - maybe good for a rental
2 - It's not that good and I wouldn't recommend it
1 - It's terrible and I definitely don't recommend it
0 - Cutting off a finger is better than watching this
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I don’t think Campbell believed her stalking story one bit 😄
I bet he knew they were a thing
well he did tell Emily that he knows about them, but in implicit way
If I was the guy, I would’ve switched firms. The guy was more in love with the corporation than his fiancé. The guy had everything a guy could want in a gf and he threw it away.
But I get how he got bothered by the boss wanting to meet with her at a bar at 2am. That’s just sus.
I really thought thought she was gonna come home to find the guy hanging in the apartment lol. Was on the edge of my seat the whole movie.
Yeah!
What I loved about this movie was tone and tension.
It felt like a thriller, but with surmounting stress in place of increasing fear as the thickening ingredient that was bound to break the characters before our eyes.
A... financial thriller?
A... stress suspense?
I don't quite know what to call it, but that's what it felt to me, hope this makes sense.
Good movie. The actors who played the young engaged couple were excellent. What a performance.
Great movie, but I'm stressed now, I'm about to find something to watch on Disney 😂
I hear that!
I think this movie wants you to root for the girl. The guy is predictable in how he let his ego consume him. He tried to be happy for the girl for about 5 seconds, but his fragile ego just couldn’t take it for long. Being continuously stepped upon by the bosses at work didn’t help either. Notice that everytime his skill is questioned, he goes off into tangent. He leads with his emotions which is seen in how he makes recommendations at work. Now the girl is his exact opposite. In the beginning when the guy proposed, you can see her hesitation. She’s already thinking about the ramifications but she chose to ignore it and tried to follow her feelings. That’s why I can say that the story would want you to root for her because she was really trying to be the subservient one despite the fact that she was going against her nature. She leads with her mind, which you can see with how ruthless she was with the guy in the end. Both of them are unable to find a healthy balance and neither are more morally superior than the other.
I think this was a good movie. Filled with insights about our nature and natural inclinations.
It's not our "nature" to be subservient. Women are conditioned to be, socially, since children. Times are changing sure, but not completely.
Agree, but I don't thing it is as clear cut as that, though. Yes, he is awful and what he does is far worse, but, on a narrative level...
As she tries to become "one of the guys" in such a chauvinistic environment, she does act quite horribly at times and I think we ARE meant to see it as awful that she so nonchalantly jokes about demanding sexual favors in exchange for keeping his job, when we know that kinda IS what is happening and pressuring him into having sex with her when he openly stated he wasn't in the mood that day - going as far as aggresively mount him and verbally demean him as he asked her to stop until he gives up and tries to please her.
That was pretty clearly meant to make us think about what if the genders were reversed.
Even at the end, when she goes through the trouble of lying about him being a stranger obsessed with her, her boss just waves it as "eh, we all sexually assault our underlings and have problematic affairs with people who work for us, just let HR invent some story and he will never work again."
Which, sure, HE was the a.h. but the boss didn't care about that, the system is not shown to be about who is right, but about who has more power.
I think her face after that conversation kinda shows that she finally got that. That she now "is" one of the guys and that, boy, she felt dirty for that.
So while, yes, she is the one we are meant to empathize the most and he is awful, her actions are more than once shown as the whole system being dirty and messed up and as nobody getting out clean when playing this game "well", be them male or female.
Appreciated your take .
It is a tough movie to watch. I see a loving couple turn to animalistic hatred and selfish betrayal toward each other. The last scene left me feeling empty.
I hate the movie because this writer left to many open questions in real life he might have killed her she just lie to nim the whole time you to repeat rumors if you didn't hear first and why could see tell nim the the truth when she first came home I know he got on his knees to campbell but she was all way over at his night it not hard to believe she was taking the knees for him and I don't know if you had heard the expression she walking around like her shit does stinks there was no love and tenderness from this crap like there was in bridgeton come back to bridgeton daphne ihope there is not a second part she goes kill Luke with assault rife
I didn't expect "Fair Play" to be a good movie because it's a small film with not-so-famous actors, but it captivated me from start to finish. The storyline is really good, although I didn't like the ending, and the two main characters are impressive, but the standout character for me in the movie was Campbell, played by Eddie Marsan, who did an excellent job. Like it.
the acting was incredible!
Felt like there was no message behind it, just watching a relationship go from bad to worse. Wasn't sure who to root for until the end when I realized he was the bad guy and she was the good guy. The whole movie neither character seemed super likeable and the weird tension throughout led to a strange and disappointing buildup that felt more like a weird revenge fantasy then an actual payoff to the building tension we sat through for two hours. The relationship fell apart and that's like the whole story.... What was the point of watching it all?
Not every movie deliveres the message as a parable, and there doesn't even have to be a message at all. There's no "good and bad guys". Yes she has some moral superiority but both characters are very relatable. Movie illustrates the reality of the corporate world and the stress that comes with it. It's a decent thriller, not very good but not bad at all, it does what a thriller is supposed to do. If you don't see a point in watching a movie where there are no clear cut heroes and vilains and it doesn't end with a sunset, then this genre is not for you. I suggest watching Marvel movies...
If it took you the whole movie to realize he was the antagonist, either you aren't too quick or you were distracted, and had it playing in the background. 15 mins in and I knew exactly where this was going
Its a terrible movie unless the point of it was to annoy the audience and rile each gender against the other. There was no grace, growth or generosity from either of the two. At the end of the day it's obvious they never really loved each other because love is transcendent it doesn't humiliate or debase. I think the lesson is relationships based on pursuit of only Pleasure and power are bound to self destruct.
The next movie that portrays hedge fund managers as good people…will be the first. All the pressure of that job, combined with cohabitation and trying to keep it secret: it was going to be impossible
The film is a great example of hypergamy. Men are more attractive the more successful they are and become but it doesn't work the other way round. Successful, career minded women are not appealing to the vast majority of men.
I think it’s what one is willing to sacrifice for it. A woman could be with a financially successful man even if he’s not a good/present husband or father. And a man could be with a financially successful woman but not if she a bad or absentee wife or mother.
It would have been a different scenario if he was the one who got the promotion.
I could have enjoyed this movie if Luke had been even slightly competent at his job and there was an actual competition for the career path....BUT from the opening scene where she spews vagina blood all over his face you just know his charcter is written to lose and is going to get increasingly more weak and pathetic as the movie goes on and its no surpise at the end where she kicks his ass in a knife fight and he pathetically pleads for his life. There I saved you two hours
Luke let his ego get to him. I knew the rape was coming before it even happened. He wanted to destroy her. It was so toxic. I get the ending. Powerful!
It was overall degenerate like most Netflix stuff.
This, Flora and son and Past Lives seemed to me like the most interesting titles coming out of Sundance this year. I’m very excited to check it out
Don't shit & eat in the same place
I loved the movie, except the ending, the ending has problems
Do u think they made up or?
Hey chris can u tell me a must watch mystery series please?
I still don't get why the guy didn't want to tell his parents about the engagement😢😢😢 this was 🤕🙄🥵
I came to the conclusion that I'm bored with all the female empowerment movies it's gone completely the other way women going with women men going with men the end is nigh.
She ends up having to lie through her teeth, which means she didn't really learn or win anything, but who cares when you've got a ton of money!
I liked it but it should have ended 20 minutes before the original ending .I liked the acting specially the boss reaction when he was listening to her , while she made up the stalking story 😅
I disagree the ending was the bow on the cake 🎂
They say movie has a lot of business jargon people may have hard time to understand. Is that so?
There is some hedge fund jargon that's used, but it's not core to the story so it shouldn't get in the way of understanding.
This movie should have been done with more nuance. But the director herself wanted to explore toxic masculinity. So the actions of the male leads are out of bounds with reality in my opinion. I mean, the sister college story at the strip club sounds like something people think toxic "frat bros" would talk about. Not to mention the "dumb fu&king b*tch" comment from the boss. Don't get me started on the fiance. Examining what it feels like to watch your partner get everything you wanted could have been interesting if not done with a certain message to send.
It's one of the worst movie ever made. Instead of showing a pattern of a positive balance between the two we see a nonsense, sick behaviour which only exacerbate a conflict that we have had enough of.
I thought it was going to be lame but I actually liked it.and related to her. I ended up making more than my partner at one time and quickly became the breadwinner and eventually, (for over a decade) the sole breadwinner and he ended up hating me. I also enjoyed the cinematography in this film. Predictable indeed but likable especially if you are bored or have insomnia 😂 (edit:wording)
I'm so sorry that happened to you. That's heartbreaking.
Cris , Thanks Much !.......
I was actually gonna get on you about your MISSING "Ballerina" 2023 Korean Netflix review🤨...but I was really CONFUSED about this Fair Play movie. I mean...the movie's called Fair Play, the description talks about a hedge-fund promotion, and this Bobble-Head Broad is taking her clothes off on the Movie Cover. 🤔🤔🤔😅
Bobble head broad! 😂😂😂
I liked the film. It was well acted, and story was intense. It kept me interested. But, to be honest, I'll never watch it again. It was too much.
I totally enjoyed it, 8.5/10 for me
Great review dude. Great review dude... thought I'd say it twice just in case.
I was impressed by the performances and so clever lines
My goodness,as an English teacher this was quite a ride with a lot of new stock market lingo...the plots builds a thickens cleverly and the final twist is out of this world
Two thumbs up!!!
Feminist Fantasy Flick.
"Nudity", you say?
I completely missed that.....
First scene was very very disgusting. Then they show her fluids on the bed sheets again. Are they trying to normalize that 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Didn’t like it
This definitely made my heart hurt....lol...so much passion for real
i binged the fall of the house of usher. very good
What I loved was that this was a drama filmed, paced, toned, lighted, colored and scored as a thriller!
In a sense, it *is* a thriller in which the director substituted crushing levels of professional and personal stress, with no possible respite or escape for even a second for the usual fear with no respite or escape as the cause behind the sense impending doom.
Maybe that's why the predictability of most of the story didn't felt bad, because the dread accumulated by knowing how the "little" things (his falling into red pill courses on making people believe your lies, her being incapable of telling him that they wanted him fired from day one because he was imposed into the firm by investors, his demeaning her professional wardrobe, her failing to stand to her mother...) would, in the contemporary world we know so well, clash catastrophically. Though I couldn't predict just HOW cruel and ugly it would turn out.
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I think she is sociopath... she gaslight him
😂😂😂😂 good one
gaslight how? Did you watch the correct movie?
@@falak_khurmi i don't think these clowns know what gaslighting means
Lol😂
Wtf?! The ending 🥴
Lol she pulled her pantyhose down!! She did not take accountability for her part in them having sex …she played the victim role I didn’t like that
@@recebaby88she was the victim 😂. It got out of hand and she told him to stop. WTF
@@recebaby88girl wtf? If you tell him to stop he need to stop
@@abbieC88 She told him, "Do what you want to do to me", then she started the sexual encounter, turned around, and pulled her panties down for him to do it. She seemed to be very much so into this rough sex as if she wanted it like this. So it's stupid as you don't act like you want sex this way then suddenly don't. She was saying one thing with her actions and another thing with her words, which her words were also was quite ambiguous (Do what you want, stop?). The entire scene was absurdly stupid from both parties. But from her own actions it's stupid that the "appropriate revenge" was stabbing him and cutting him. She ends up being not much better as her terrible behavior spurred a lot of the resentment in the relationship. Going out to a strip club with other guys, coming home drunk, and then he's suppose to be OK with that? So much bad behavior in this film, neither side was treating the other with respect and love.
@@Valkaneer💯 I agree 👍
This movie sucks!!! Too much over acting. Not mimicking a real life.
Closer. That movie was whew!
Most Excellent
That was a great review
Super movie ❤
This movie sucked.
Whoa, great nasty little picture
Trigger warning in reference to SA..Great commentary
This movie was good to watch.
We need more movies that display the real issues that women experience in toxic workplaces and toxic relationships. I love this movie even though I think it needs a warning for people with PTSD.
Love incel movies.