{"id":418762,"date":"2022-03-20T05:29:22","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T02:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/sissy-smashes-like-buttons-and-heads-with-equal-zeal\/"},"modified":"2022-03-20T05:29:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T02:29:22","slug":"sissy-smashes-like-buttons-and-heads-with-equal-zeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/sissy-smashes-like-buttons-and-heads-with-equal-zeal\/","title":{"rendered":"#&#8217;Sissy&#8217; Smashes Like Buttons and Heads With Equal Zeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3be29c45970\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3be29c45970\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/sissy-smashes-like-buttons-and-heads-with-equal-zeal\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Sissy_Smashes_Like_Buttons_and_Heads_With_Equal_Zeal%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Sissy&#8217; Smashes Like Buttons and Heads With Equal Zeal&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Sissy_Smashes_Like_Buttons_and_Heads_With_Equal_Zeal%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Sissy&#8217; Smashes Like Buttons and Heads With Equal Zeal&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<pre><code>     &lt;span class=\"mx-1\"&gt;\u201cYou\u2019re terrible, Muriel!\u201d is written on someone\u2019s t-shirt here, so that\u2019s pretty great.&lt;\/span&gt;\n&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;div id=\"\"&gt;\n\n\n\n                &lt;figure class=\"sf-entry-featured-media \"&gt;\n            &lt;img width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/sissy.jpg\" class=\"articlethumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"Aisha Dee in Sissy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/sissy.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/sissy-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/&gt;                                    &lt;p&gt;\n                    &lt;span class=\"sf-entry-flag sf-entry-flag-creditline\"&gt;Shudder&lt;\/span&gt;\n\n                        &lt;\/figure&gt;\n\n    &lt;!-- START BYLINE --&gt;\n    &lt;div class=\"row align-items-center justify-content-center my-4 text-center medium dark-gray\"&gt;\n        By\u00a0Rob Hunter\u00a0\u00b7 Published on March 19th, 2022 \n        &lt;\/div&gt;\n    &lt;!-- END BYLINE --&gt;\n\n    Nobody likes social influencers. Sure, they have the followers to suggest otherwise, but <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> is home to the lies we tell ourselves and others. Influencers exploit that in the name sponsorships, product sales, and online popularity. Nobody actually likes influencers, including, it turns out, influencers themselves. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sissy&lt;\/em&gt;&lt;\/strong&gt;\u00a0isn\u2019t the first genre effort to pair online personas and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>-likes with murder and mayhem \u2014 &lt;em&gt;Tragedy Girls&lt;\/em&gt; (2017) does it extremely well, &lt;em&gt;Spree&lt;\/em&gt; (2020) and &lt;em&gt;Superhost&lt;\/em&gt; (2021) do it also \u2014 but this new Australian horror\/comedy goes hard condemning those on both sides of the screen with mixed results.\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Cecilia (<strong>Aisha Dee<\/strong>), known to her hundreds of thousands of online followers as @SincerelyCecilia, is all about validation and affirmation. She shares tips with viewers on how to calm down, focus your energy, and live a healthy life both physically and mentally to be your best self. Of course, she\u2019s a bit less well put-together offscreen with a lot to be desired when it comes to social skills. An unplanned run-in with her old friend Emma (<strong>Hannah Barlow<\/strong>, who also co-writes\/co-directs) almost tips her over the edge, but a spontaneous invite to Hannah\u2019s bachelorette weekend leaves Cecilia more excited than stressed. The two were best friends as kids until a girl named Alex and violent incident split them apart. But hey, it\u2019s been ten years, what could go wro\u2013oh, a still physically scarred Alex (<strong>Emily De Margheriti<\/strong>) is hosting the weekend at her family\u2019s remote summer home? Time to bust out the relaxation candles.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sissy<\/em> pulls no punches when it comes to its razor-sharp critique of influencer culture, and its disdain spreads to the kind of viewers who soak up manufactured realities of all kinds. We don\u2019t meet any of Cecilia\u2019s followers, but Emma and her friends are shown engorging themselves on trashy reality television and hurtful gossip to the point that it\u2019s difficult to see them as victims. That becomes one of the film\u2019s issues, though, as with one minor exception there\u2019s no one here to root for or celebrate \u2014 even if the film itself encourages audiences to cheer on the killer.<\/p>\n<p>Cecilia, or Sissy as she was known as a kid, is a severely mentally ill young woman who spirals hard and fast over the course of the weekend leading to both desperate runs to social media for praise and real-world bloodletting. Even before then, though, she\u2019s having regular breakdowns and seeing bloody visions in the dark. There\u2019s an effort made to paint her as a victim of bullying, a serious offense that\u2019s led to the creation of numerous slasher killers, but writers\/directors Barlow &amp; <strong>Kane Senes<\/strong> can\u2019t resist making her the anti-hero of the film. She\u2019s goofy and wants so badly to be accepted, and you can\u2019t help but feel for her situation early on, but she quickly reveals herself to be real trouble and a true villain. That makes for an oddly unappealing lesson as the film is basically suggesting that you\u2019re absolutely right to single out and avoid the weird kid at school or the strange person at work \u2014 sometimes they\u2019re the most interesting people and often in need of friends!<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of which, the friends are all painted so bitchily that their subsequent murders leave viewers unfazed, although some will no doubt be smiling at Cecilia\u2019s antics. (I\u2019ll admit a grin graced my own lips at a certain head pop.) But what to make of Emma? She\u2019s the only character in <em>Sissy<\/em> who\u2019s remotely human and likable, the only one innocent of offense \u2014 yes, it was a poor choice bringing Cecilia and Alex together again, but her anger at her friends for being mean towards Cecilia feels genuine. Emma feels like a lynchpin character that could have triggered some interesting conversations in contrast to the rest, but the film does nothing with her.<\/p>\n<p>The bright side to <em>Sissy<\/em>\u2018s love for its main character is Dee\u2019s terrifically charismatic performance. She\u2019s mildly appealing as she spouts self-help nonsense, but she comes alive in the scenes where she\u2019s actually trying to socialize and be sincerely friendly. Later scenes where she crumbles emotionally hit thanks to an emotional turn, and while the tone doesn\u2019t necessarily land you\u2019ll still appreciate her chops. Barlow\u2019s Emma is also a good turn, but the remaining characters are often played a bit too broad to be either appealing or impressive.<\/p>\n<p>The film\u2019s visuals pop at times with social media-infused stylizations, and the score finds an equally playful tone \u2014 but good gravy will you want to punch its incessant presence right in the dick. Composer <strong>Kenneth Lampl<\/strong> finds some bright beats, but it\u2019s overused to the point of obnoxiousness. The idea is presumably to keep apace with Cecilia\u2019s mental world, but it prevents some scenes from breathing the way the need to. Still, it looks good, and Barlow\/Senes keep the film\u2019s energy up for the bulk of its slightly overlong running time.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sissy<\/em> manages some engaging condemnation of our social media-fueled culture and entertains with some of its kills, but its themes and observations leave a lot to be desired. Cecilia is a bad person \u2014 unwell and bullied, but also homicidal and delusional. The film doesn\u2019t seem as convinced, though, leaving her an antihero we\u2019re meant to like, follow, and retweet.<\/p>\n<pre><code>    Related Topics: Sissy\n    &lt;!-- AUTHOR BOX --&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<div class=\"gray-bg p-4 border small mb-5\">\n<div class=\"row align-items-center text-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-2\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dca6f7118e64ea9aa6ef4f60221cfe7e?s=96&amp;d=mm&amp;r=x\" class=\"circle img-fluid\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\"\/>\n        <\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md\">\n            Rob Hunter has been writing for Film School Rejects since before you were born, which is weird seeing as he&#8217;s so damn young. He&#8217;s our Chief Film Critic and Associate Editor and lists &#8216;Broadcast <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a>&#8217; as his favorite film of all time. Feel free to say hi if you see him on Twitter <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FakeRobHunter\">@FakeRobHunter<\/a>.        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<pre><code>    &lt;!-- START RECOMMENDED READING 1 --&gt;\n                                &lt;section class=\"recommended py-5\"&gt;\n            &lt;h3&gt;Recommended Reading&lt;\/h3&gt;\n\n\n        &lt;\/section&gt;\n            &lt;!-- END RECOMMENDED READING --&gt;\n\n\n\n\n&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"&gt;&lt;\/script&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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