On Hulu, I watched Thoroughbreds, a 2017 film directed by Cory Finley, a dark comedy about two teen girls, Lily (Anya Taylor-Joy) and Amanda (Olivia Cooke) as two rich girls in suburban Connecticut who reconnect, after Lily gets kicked out of her prep school and Amanda killed her horse as a botched mercy killing and is up on charges of animal abuse, and they find a renewed weird kinship with each other, and hatch a murder plot, with using an older drug dealer and convicted sex offender (Anton Yelchin) as the chosen assassin. This was his final movie before dying in a freak accident in 2016, and the film was dedicated to him.
I had heard of this movie years ago, and only just watched it recently, and really liked it a lot, especially liking Olivia Cooke in this role. She has this pretty dollface, but brings out this dark twisted deadpan humor that works really well. I had heard of her casually before, from her roles in Ready Player One and The Sound of Metal, and she’s more known now for House of the Dragon. And Anya Taylor-Joy has become a prestige actress in a lot of offbeat artsy films, as well as an action heroine in Furiosa.
This scene is after they have an argument, where Amanda pushes Lily to be more honest with her and get her frustrations out as a weight off of her chest.
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