Sundance Review: Carey Williams’ ‘Emergency’
21.01.2022 - 09:44
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What if there was more to the Goldilocks story?
Picture this: when the three Bears (who are in college) get home, Goldilocks has eaten all the porridge, got drunk, and is now passed out on the living room floor. However, instead of doing something about it, they drive around town for hours arguing about whether they take her to the hospital or leave her on the front doorstep of a frat house because they fear police retaliation.
I’ve just summed up director Carey Williams’ new film Emergency which is having its debut at Sundance 2022 on opening night in the U.S. Dramatic Section. Starring RJ Cyler, Donald Elise Watkins, Maddie Nichols, and Sabrina Carpenter, these college kids engage in errors without the comedy. This movie makes it difficult to become engrossed in its social commentary without feeling it’s making a mockery of its message. Maybe that’s the point? The film is all over the place, and the payoff doesn’t hit you in the feels as it should.
Emergency starts with friends and roommates Kunle (Watkins) and Sean (Cyler) in the lecture hall, listening to their professor use the N-word freely as she gives a “lesson” on what the word means. The duo have different opinions on the matter. Kunle thinks she wasn’t malicious, that there was a point to what the professor was saying. Sean believes it’s wrong and the school should fire the teacher. These two are friends, but they are two different people. Kunle is preppy, intelligent, and going to Princeton for biology, and Sean wants to get high and party. The plan for the night is to hop from frat house to frat house so they can get drunk, high, and find girls.
After spending some time in the school biology lab, the two go back home and see a young blonde girl lying unconscious
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