Bff best friends forever 2009 torrent download

Although the girls are cheerfully oblivious at first, as they approach Texas sinister travellers emerge from the desert, tensions rise and secrets surface, not just about the nuclear disaster but also Harriet and Reba themselves, with big consequences for their friendship.

As a sci-fi road movie focused on the bond between girls, BFF is an intriguing prospect given the recent popularity of that mixture of genres and its typically male focus. Certainly, the film throws in a lot of potentially interesting elements and quirks, ranging from Harriet's unusual job as a comic book art inker to several dramatic revelations that cast the trip in a very different light.

It's disappointing, then, that the film doesn't really take these ideas anywhere. In fairness, road movies are usually very episodic and therefore sometimes prone to introduce encounters and expectations only to drop them just as quickly. All the same, I couldn't help feeling there was a better, more cohesive story waiting to be told here if only the film had kept to a sharper structure and actively done something with the genre conventions it plays with.

Part of this weakness, sadly, comes from the fact that Harriet and Reba are not set up especially convincingly as close friends, and for the story to work for me I really needed to be invested in their relationship. Grant and Miao's performances are enjoyable, relaxed enough to be credible in themselves and not stagey, especially when it really counts.

Their characters are likable, if thinly drawn. Also, Grant offers a rather different performance from her role in Heroes, at least to my recollection. It's clear that the women playing these roles must have a good friendship, but the script doesn't really allow that to shine through more scenes with them together at the start might have helped.

Several story developments and the actions needed to set them in motion also come across as heavily contrived, recalling those moments in horror films where characters do ridiculous things even when they know the risks, but lacking the same fun anticipation.

It also takes the characters a remarkably long time and a lot of strange behaviour to work out what the audience already knows from a very early stage. Perhaps the film would have worked better if we were kept as much in the dark as they were and obliged to put 2 and 2 together.

The tone is also very uneven in places, making BFF's refusal to poke a bit further into some aspects of its story frustrating. It's certainly not a total loss.

The risk with low-budget sci-fi is that a film will push for visuals and a scope beyond its means, but BFF wisely concentrates on character rather than special effects. The locations are very well-chosen and save for a couple of rather jarring parts the film looks and sounds good. A nice line of humour runs throughout, especially when the film toys with some apocalyptic genre expectations watching it with a savvy audience at a sci-fi film festival was especially fun.

In general the film is very competently put together. It's just the script and story that let it down, a bit of a fatal flaw in such an insistently character-driven movie. On the one hand, Best Friends Forever is more enjoyable and much more of a crowd-pleaser assuming the crowd is already sympathetic to light sci- fi than some other low-budget indie debuts I've seen recently. Empress Schuck Nina as Nina.

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