{"id":39469,"date":"2023-10-05T00:33:26","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T04:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=39469"},"modified":"2023-04-12T15:35:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T19:35:28","slug":"binge-and-purgatory-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/05\/binge-and-purgatory-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Binge and Purgatory (2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/binge-purgatory-still.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39470\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/binge-purgatory-still.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/binge-purgatory-still.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/binge-purgatory-still-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/binge-purgatory-still-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a>I can\u2019t say that I responded too much to director Becca Kozak\u2019s short dark comedy, too much. While I dug the inherent creativity behind the premise, the movie really doesn\u2019t offer much of a narrative. There\u2019s a lot of gore and grue, and two characters that spend their time one upping each other in grotesque ways.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Created as part of the Run N Gun 48 Hour Film competition, Malady is a teen girl struggling with bulimia and gorges on food in her private time. When her mother has had the last straw, she decides to \u201ccure\u201d Malady\u2019s bulimia with a little bit of<em>&#8230; <\/em><em>motherly love. But Malady finds it hard to quit her insatiable appetite and self destructive habits. <\/em>I\u2019m not even too sure what the climax means, as there\u2019s an indication that Malady kind of, sort of, embraced her cannibalism.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s not even an explanation as to why she assumed bulimia could end her cannibalism. In either case, like director Kozak\u2019s last films, \u201cBinge and Purgatory\u201d is based around a lot of gore as its centerpiece. It also may prove a tad offensive in its plot device of an eating disorder, but director Kozak unabashedly uses that as character motivation. Your mileage may vary, is all I\u2019m saying. In either case, \u201cBinge and Purgatory\u201d is a miss of a short film. While I appreciated the grue and fearlessness, the pay off leaves a lot to be desired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t say that I responded too much to director Becca Kozak\u2019s short dark comedy, too much. While I dug the inherent creativity behind the premise, the movie really doesn\u2019t offer much of a narrative. There\u2019s a lot of gore and grue, and two characters that spend their time one upping each other in grotesque [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[174,259,477,501,938],"class_list":["post-39469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","tag-cannibals","tag-dark-comedy","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-short-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39471,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39469\/revisions\/39471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}