
The protagonist is an artist who reevaluates his identity. He is into self-harm as a way to punish his “masculinity”. After another session (documented instances of self-harming action), he dresses in drag and goes to the party. At first, he escapes into the fantasy of safety and freedom, but eventually and abruptly is brought back to reality as the phantasm of masochism takes shape.
Holiday hijinks ensue when a recently separated couple are both accidently invited to same holiday celebration.
These confines won’t really encourage you to read the film as a metaphor for the nerve-inducing experience we’ve all been through over the last year, however — and in the interest of maintaining your dignity, you probably shouldn’t. While the sociopolitical commentary may have worked for the similarly-themed Buried (2010), in which we find Ryan Reynolds on his own buried alive in the Middle East, but this futuristic take on the premise is best left as a piece of distracting entertainment. Nevertheless, the atmosphere is no less suffocating, literally and dramatically.
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Crossroads follows a young guitarist on a journey through the American South in search of blues history and his own voice.