I was excited to see Duck Butter on Netflix as it was one of the talked about films at Tribeca this year. However, I was not as engaged with the movie as I thought I would be.
While the plot seems to move fast, the story itself is very slow. We follow two characters over the course of 24 hours through their pact of staying awake together the entire time.
The characters, Niama and Sergio have romantic interest in one another but are complete opposites, as we see them from being intrigued with each other's passions/freedoms towards getting in the way of one another.
I found myself less focussed on where their relationship would end up, but the usingness of spanish born Sergio, by Niama . Immediately I thought “wow another movie where the ‘foreigner’ teaches the main character how to be free and live a true life at the expense of their exploitation”, and the ending did not prove that much otherwise in terms of Sergio’s exploitation. In short Niama learns a valuable lesson about the acceptance of selfhood, but through a really drawn out process where I as the viewer did not want be with them for those 24 hours.
Although the story was eh, both actresses were very good at capturing two different sides of aspiring artists with generational wealth. The characters were somewhat believable and somewhat exaggerations of their roles, but this may have been intentional as the film is categorized as a comedy. The movie does have humorous events like, *Spoiler* one of the characters poops in a pan, but by no means did I think the movie was funny. It touched me as a slice of life mixed with ‘moral of the story’ type of film made for a millennial audience.
I would not recommend Duck Butter to someone looking for a laugh, but to people who see themselves in Niama’s shoes - a driven, and set in their ways type of person.
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