Monthly Archive: January 2022

Music

Music (2021)

Directed by Sia

I know this isn’t the usual type of movie I review. Even though this film is very scary I wouldn’t call it a horror film, but due to school/work/life/the-ongoing-apocalypse I’ve been rather busy lately. Look for my  “Best of 2021” next week, but until then I just want to give you a little something, something.

If you don’t know what Music is, I envy you, but please allow me to destroy that innocence while I tell you about the film  Music, a musical drama by Australian musician Sia, about Kazu (gesundheit), a young woman who gains custody of her autistic half-sister named Music following their grandmother’s death. Before you ask, no, the girl cast as Music aka Kazu’s autistic sister, is not autistic in real life, but don’t you worry, Maddie Zeigler watched plenty of YouTube videos by people pretending to be autisitc, and she’s pretty sure she has this down! I can’t be too hard on Zeigler, she was only 15 when she acted in this film, but I can, do, and will blame Sia for this, so let’s actually get into what Music is and what it does wrong.

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