The Neon Demon seems at first like a film of contradictions – shiny surfaces hiding dark depths, fashion statements masquerading in front of political ones, human impulses bathed in techno beats, the beautiful and the ugly, the innocent and the corrupted, sex and death. Its chief achievement is that it makes these contradictions absolute non-contradictions rather than uneasy bedfellows. It cries out for dual recognition … Continue reading The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2016)