Direct from Sundance: Jonathan Majors stars in 'Magazine Dreams,' a terrifying examination of a violent loners.
may eventually ask themselves. It’s also a question that the movie seems to pose to itself. The film, which premiered here at the Sundance Film Festival on Friday, is a grimly immersive dive into the head of an addled, violent young man, a disaffected, delusional loner who threatens to destroy the bright world that so cruelly denies him access.is no doubt aware of the familiar thematic structure. He leans into those comparisons, then, confident that he’s found a new angle of attack.
But what is all that effort in service of? Bynum has a keen aesthetic eye and employs a sure hand in ratcheting up the physical and existential dread of the film. He alludes to danger early, showing us Killian in court-mandated therapy following some kind of outburst at a hospital.
Which is perhaps the film’s salient argument. Violent men are sourced from somewhere, after all. Something, or many things, have happened to them. And rather than cordoning off those hurting men—criminalizing their mental plight, mocking it online—shouldn’t we work toward a world that offers them care? Asunfolds, Bynum tells us in no uncertain terms that his movie could be pointed at some kind of horrible event. He then lets us wonder what an alternative outcome might look like.
I’m not sure if that humanist idea, only pawed at as it is, is enough to overcome the harrowing nature of the film.is an incredibly tough sit, in its visceral detail and in the way Bynum agonizingly draws it all out. By a certain point, one questions the film’s sympathy. Killian’s litany of pain—both received and delivered—begins to seem more sadistically torturing than compassionate. Just as Killian flexes in what looks like mortal pain , Bynum relishes in the brutal grind of his film.
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