‘Aggro Dr1ft’ Review: Harmony Korine Divides Audiences With His In-Your-Face Hitman Fantasia – Toronto Film Festival
deadline.comDepending on who you speak to, Aggro Dr1ft has either been a hideous blight on the fall festival circuit or… Well, currently, there’s not exactly a consensus on what there is to love about Harmony Korine’s in-your-face fantasia, a nightmare vision of Florida made all the more hellish by its refusal to resemble anything you might expect even — or perhaps especially — from the director of Spring Breakers.
Its director claims it isn’t a movie anyway, and that he doesn’t care that much for movies at all any more. But, that said, Aggro Dr1ft has a visceral effect that’s hard to shake, and its images are unexpectedly memorable, ready to loiter in your synapses until a series of Nicolas Roeg-style flashbacks brings them racing back into your mind’s eye, long after the memories of more serious art films have faded.
If there’s a story, it’s incredibly simple: In a future dystopia, the world’s best hitman, Bo (Jordi Moller), is being stalked by the world’s most dangerous psychopath, Zion (Travis Scott).
You’d think there wouldn’t be that much difference between them, but Bo is a devoted family man who cares about his family and insists that his children “shouldn’t know of my violence”.
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