I loved Jordan Wippell’s “Meat” if only because it’s the slow unraveling of the inner conscious of a suburbanite that’s been repressed likely since childhood. It’s the inner delving in to the mind of a man who is unraveling before our very eyes and all we can do is watch. “Meat” has a very simple premise, but one that’s effective and suggestive when it closes to its credits sequence.
Who knows what will happen when the movie has ended? We just know that our main character is a man who has deep disturbing thoughts and looks at his family as nothing but pieces of meat rotting, baking, and growing rancid over time. Something inevitably has to give, and the chaos will be unimaginable. Wippell draws a suggestively eerie and yet unusual dramatic thriller that spotlights the inner consciousness of a single man as played well by Aaron Ginn-Forsberg.
He breaks the fourth wall taking viewers in to his mind to view what other people might deem absolutely frightening. To him though, the thoughts are like a festering illness and he’s given in to it, and will eventually act upon it if his family doesn’t step carefully. “Meat” is a rich and provocative stab at self aware meta-drama in the vein of “Fight Club” and it’s another fine effort from Jordan Wippell.