Bodies Bodies Bodies

Review

Bodies, Bodies, Bodies is another excellent horror entry from current studio darling, A24. This movie takes a look at the egocentrism of rich people and how this mindset can lead to their detriment and even eventually to their demise.

This movie is a whodunit where after the power gets knocked out during a hurricane party, a group of rich 20 year-old friends find their friends dead body after playing a game of Bodies, Bodies, Bodies. The friends then try to ascertain who among them is the killer whilst stuck in the house due to their hurricane raging outside. The close friends turn on the two new outsiders present at the party before eventually turning on each other ending with each character only looking out for their own best interests even if that involves killing more people.

I really liked this movie a lot. We follow the perspective of Bee who is the new girlfriend of Sophie and she acts as an outsider perspective for us to follow, both in the friend group and also in socioeconomic status. All of the friends are extremely rich, not batting an eye at the massive mansion David lives in and even comparing their wealth against each other at the beginning of the get together. Bee, on the other hand, lies about her financial situation to make it seem better than it is so that people won’t pity her. She lives worlds away from them and she comes from a much less self-centered place and we get to follow along in her confusion with the way that the friend group lives, barely even seeming to tolerate each other at times.

The friend group is really interesting in this movie because over the course of it you realize that they aren’t friends because they actually like and care about each other an are instead friends simply due to proximity with little to no empathy regarding the struggles of each other. Sophie’s drug addiction and frequent trips to rehab get brushed off as annoying behavior, Alice’s tendency to bring home dangerous men who threaten her is brushed off as a funny character trait, and Jordan’s obsessive nature regarding Sophie is nothing more than a weird habit of hers by the group. It becomes clear throughout the movie that they don’t care who the killer is for what it means for those who have died but instead care for what it means for themselves.

In the end the overall message is about egocentrism with the reveal that David died because he was stupid and not because he was killed. If they had taken the time to investigate his body a little better they would have figured it out but their inability to care about anything other than themselves lead to four more people dying.

This movie landed really well for me. The actors were all amazing and the juxtaposition between the friend group and Bee worked really well for me in terms of conveying the message of the movie.