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A review by adamcetra
We Eat Our Own by Kea Wilson
5.0
"You know that acting is a kind of cannibalism, and you indulge in it: you will be eaten, and you will eat your own."
Are you kidding me??! This was so good. A top 5 all timer for me. A no-name American actor is randomly cast as the lead for an Italian pulp horror film shooting in the Amazon. (If you're familiar with the story of "Cannibal Holocaust," you'll notice the parallels immediately.)
Told in cutting and direct prose, a rumination on violence and so much more. Everything feels like it's dripping with subtext that I think I need more time to sit with. The "Richard" chapters are told in 2nd person, which works better than I've ever seen, and coupled with the lack of quotation marks (like a movie script, perhaps?), draws you right in and makes you feel his isolation. But there's still that same closeness in the 3rd-person chapters as well, which follow other actors and a subplot involving a cartel-backed revolution.
I am not kidding when I say this was *stupidly* good. I couldn't put it down.
Are you kidding me??! This was so good. A top 5 all timer for me. A no-name American actor is randomly cast as the lead for an Italian pulp horror film shooting in the Amazon. (If you're familiar with the story of "Cannibal Holocaust," you'll notice the parallels immediately.)
Told in cutting and direct prose, a rumination on violence and so much more. Everything feels like it's dripping with subtext that I think I need more time to sit with. The "Richard" chapters are told in 2nd person, which works better than I've ever seen, and coupled with the lack of quotation marks (like a movie script, perhaps?), draws you right in and makes you feel his isolation. But there's still that same closeness in the 3rd-person chapters as well, which follow other actors and a subplot involving a cartel-backed revolution.
I am not kidding when I say this was *stupidly* good. I couldn't put it down.