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Wednesday, 8 November 2017

The Florida Project Review

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The more I think about The Florida Project, the more its images begin to stand out for me. Take for instance, one of its more poetic sequences, when a little girl and her two best friends walk aimlessly through a batch of abandoned, pastel-colored condos. The sweltering Florida heat wears them down, but never before they’re done playing. All that divides them from Disney World, the supposed “Happiest Place On Earth,” is a ring of swamp land.

Much like writer and director Sean Baker’s previous film, Tangerine, which got notice for being shot entirely on an iPhone, The Florida Project is about the people living in the in-between. Sitting continuously on the brink of someplace much better than they’re in right now, but also one much worse. It’s about a group of people, barely making ends meet, living in a beat-up purple motel called The Magic Castle, where sometimes Disney tourists accidentally make reservations. To most adults, the place looks and feels like one that you’d try to avoid at all costs, but to the kids living there - it’s no different or less magical than anywhere else in the world.

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