
A queer love story about a terminally ill woman who journeys back to the place where she once lived with the love of her life over thirty years ago. The place where she chooses to live out her last days and die on her own terms. Upon revisiting powerful memories from her past, she is given the courage and the closure she needs to finally accept her life as it was, as it is, and as it will be.
The film is a documentary focusing on heavy metal in the late 80s and tackles topics like drug addiction, alcoholism, sex, masculinity, and of course, rock and roll. However, this didn’t feel like any documentary I’ve ever seen before.
Ultra-violent storytelling has never been my thing, but the issues with Scarface go beyond that. The film perpetuates harmful stereotypes about Latinx immigrants and uses gore and misogyny for shock value that never serves any purpose. The whole venture is frustratingly empty, and left me desiring something more.
'Pariah' tells a powerful, mesmerizing, and unflinchingly honest story of identity.
A pop star at Radio City Music Hall gets the opportunity to change herself to save her music career.