Technically this filma verry well made. Good music, the dancing is nice, it all looks verry pretty. Apart from that the whol things a mess.
Ema is a blatant psychopath who actively manipulates a family into granting her access to ex-adopted son who she and her husband serially emotionaly abused, which would be fine if the film bothered to try and have an opinion on but ultimately none of this seems to matter in the end.
The film starts of with numerous people telling her that she and her husband were terrible parents, and they both seemed to agree because they spend most of the film telling eachother so.
Then she proceeds to rope all her friends into emotionaly manipulating the boys new family into forming an polyamorous relationship so they can all look after the child.
This would be fine as a plot if she then didnt sit everyone in a room including all her friends, family and the new parents and explaint the whole thing after the fact only to have everyone say OK and everyone lives happily ever after.
None of the charecters change or learn anything over the duration of the film and any wrongdoing is either forgiven or forgotten becaus no one seems to care about anything but dancing and having a lot of sex.
Even the child the film seems to revolve around seems like an accessory to these people even though the film is trying to put an emphasis on the value of motherhood.
Other than that the film is just pretty, wealthy, artists dancing, cheating on eachother, having verry public domestics (which always seemed to involve monologues about art and philosophy) and burning things.
I dont think the writers or directors cared about any charecter development or moral conflict even though they chose a verry heavy subject matter.
The film starts off so gritty but ends up so far detached from any sort of reality, it seems they were more concerned with making something pretty, with pretty people in pretty locations doing pretty dances.
Review of Ema
