Netflix Party Review: Paradise Hills [Emz]

 

Paradise Hills was Zee's pick for our latest Netflix Party. 

The film was released in 2019 but was never released to mainstream cinema in the UK. The film stars Emma Roberts as the main character, Uma in this film as you follow the story through her characters eyes so to speak. 

I have aware on Emma Roberts since her acting days in Nickelodeon's Unfabulous.

The cast also consists of Milla Jovovich , Danielle MacDonald, Awkwafina, Jeremy Irvine and Eiza González.

So I found this film extremely weird and crazily futuristic. 

Emma Roberts' character Uma wakes up on a strange island and is told she has to conform to how her mother wants her to be so when she returns to the mainland she will marry Son. 

All the other girls have back stories also, Danielle MacDonald's character, has been sent to lose weight so she can join the family in pageants, Awkwafina's character suffers with anxiety and doesn't fit in the mould of her rich Aunt and Uncle and  Eiza González's character is bring sent there to conform to how her record label want her to be. 

I found that the characters are actually being abused from the beginning if you re-watch the film after knowing what happens at the end, after all they are only using them to form replicants that are sent out the real world whilst the girls that have arrived are disposed of. The girls are drugged to sleep through the night, all sessions are recorded to the replicants can study their behaviour. 

Milla Jovovich's character seems like some form of Headmistress but it is unveiled at the end that she is some form of human looking life drinking plant?  Its all extremely bizarre.

The fact that she manages to team up with her replicant and get revenge on Son is the best part of the film, it's the best of both worlds, Uma gets her freedom and the replicant who by this time we know her name has been given the wealth that Uma would have had but as a widow.

Apart from the film, the setting was beautiful, I researched it was filmed in the Canary Islands and Barcelona.

I mean if you like films that you can't understand, then this one is for you.

I would personally give this film a 4/10 as its to bizarre and really not for me. I did find the setting very beautiful which helped the review a little. If you enjoy this film then don't take my review as a way to base all reviews.

Till next time

Emz