Honey Don't: Sizzles, Before Fizzling
Like Fourth of July fireworks, the film Honey Don’t is colorful and fun to look at, delivering many bangs (sex and guns!) for your buck before quietly fading out.

A struggling beauty influencer, Gabriel Rose dreams of becoming an actor. But he lacks both the talent and the connections. After yet another failed audition, he meets Stanislas, a privileged young man from the upper class, who offers him the chance to launch a jewelry brand. Gabriel sees this as an opportunity to gain access to Parisian high society, where everything seems easy, at least on the surface… Meanwhile, he becomes involved with Pauline, a young political ecology researcher. Torn between two worlds, Gabriel searches for his place between image and reality, the desire for success, and the need for love.
Like Fourth of July fireworks, the film Honey Don’t is colorful and fun to look at, delivering many bangs (sex and guns!) for your buck before quietly fading out.
The fun tricks used in the production design and lighting read extremely well on-screen but hardly fulfill their purpose of trying to inject glamour into a lack-luster story with nothing to say.
I understood post-memory as passing down stories and images of one’s experiences that are not your own. For decades, rape has been depicted in cinema through a third-person perspective, leaving the viewer to observe rape; not to experience it.
Diana’s spirit has taken off, ‘No right, no wrong, no rules for me.’ And in that moment, as she runs on the screen, she gets it, her ‘Let It Go’ moment.
As one of the women said in the film, friendship in your teens is “as important as any lover” and it’s clear they lived that philosophy throughout their early adult lives as well.
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