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Pattinson’s Performance: A Cinematic Nausea

SUNI wonders if great filmmaking can make your stomach dance, or is it just us?

Robert Pattinson’s Primetime performance is making me nauseous, and that’s great filmmaking. I feel like I need a shower after watching it.


Lance Oppenheim's Primetime combines Pattinson as the morally grey vigilante with a wonderfully creepy yet nostalgic cinematography that promises an unrelenting tension. Set during the peak of Dateline NBC's To Catch a Predator, the film captures the hazy, overexposed aesthetic of 2000s TV, mixed with hidden camera filming for a voyeuristic and suffocating vibe.


The work of cinematographer David Bolen is key here. Shooting with a mix of high-definition cameras and low-quality surveillance ones, the trailer alone has a distinct raw feel that builds an authentic, exploitative atmosphere reminiscent of early 2000s reality TV. Dizzying shots, a nauseating palette of yellows and greens, and claustrophobic cinematography make it impossible to tear your eyes away from Primetime's eerie world.


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