Movie Review: Ms. Purple - In Justin Chon's latest, a brother and sister reestablish ties as they try to find a healthier road forward.
—lies in the divide between sensuality and sorrow. Chon’s movie is abidingly bereft: His protagonists, siblings Kasie and Carey , both lack selfhood, life direction, familial closure, even a sense of societal security. They’re searching for such things, of course, or at least considering the search. Frankly, they’re too caught up in toil and struggle to do much anything else.
Thus she calls on Carey for help after years of radio silence between them, and Carey, to the surprise of all, agrees almost immediately. Chon establishes upfront that dad clearly loved Kasie more than Carey, and that this imbalance bred resentment in the boy that he has shouldered from youth to adulthood; punctuating that animus in their first moment alone, Carey shakes his helpless sire and screams words at him that Chon doesn’t let his audience hear.
Chon pulls at their threads like a cat stubbornly batting at a curtain cord. It’s inevitable that brother and sister must fall apart in their own unique ways; there’s only so much Kasie can take of the objectification and dominance of her asshole boyfriend , only so much longer Carey can suppress the years-long buildup of anguish over his dad’s neglect and favoritism. For Kasie, something better is out there, “something” being a healthier relationship with a much kinder man, Octavio .
But there’s much to confront before that can happen. Compared to Chon’s incendiary prior effort, 2017’sis quiet, verging on contemplative. The film finds thistles and thorns with which to prick its leads and delay desperately needed reflection, but when you’re only barely making it through the day every day, moments of reflection don’t come easily.
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