I found 10 impressive moments in A24 films

In 2012, the year the earth was supposed to be destroyed, there were some people drive to Rome. The road they drive on, numbered A24, is also the shooting place of Italian neorealist film.

It was also here that they decided to run a film company, and company called A24 was born.

Ten years have passed, the earth is not destroyed, while A24 is developing better and better, it has been able to make its own way in Hollywood.

In 2012, the small-budget film Spring Breakers is an unexpected hit. In 2015, the horror film The Witch brings attention to Anya Taylor-Joy. In 2016, A24 won several Oscar awards with Ex Machina, Room and Inside Amy Schumer. In 2017, Moonlight won the Oscar for Best Picture. In 2022, Everything Everywhere All at Once won more than $100 million box office, breaking A24's record… A24 show its power in the mainstream with a speed that the founders could not believe.

People realized that A24 represents an interesting and eccentric taste. It seems that there is no criteria for selecting films, but they will never compromise on business value.

In the films produced by A24, Scarlett Johansson is an alien who has become human (Under the Skin). Robert Pattinson is a mad island guard (The Lighthouse). Daniel Radcliffe is a multi-purpose corpse (Swiss Army Man).

A kind of "A24 mania" is spreading quietly. Some people say that A24 stands for "a 24-year-old would think this is the best movie ever made".

Over the past ten years, we can find the following memorable moments in A24 movies. They all represent a spirit of A24, which is rebellious, funny and weird.

(Attention! Spoiler alert!)

01

(2013)

The all-black alien puts on the skin of Scarlett Johansson, confuse the enemy for hunting. The preys' bodies slowly sink beneath the black floor. More frighteningly, he sees that the last prey leaves only a skin, and he himself is about to be wiped out.

02

(2014)

1981 was the most criminally recorded year in New York history.

Abel tries to fulfill his dream by legal means, but finally pushed into the crime path. His employees commit suicide in front of him, and Abe just walks past them. No matter how much he longed for procedural success, now he has no choice but to face the truth.

03

(2015)

In this world, single people will be turned into animals.

If we want to get rid of this, there must be at least one thing in common between a couple. Maybe you both limp a leg, or maybe you are both prone to nosebleeds…

What David and his lover have in common is myopia, but she is blinded by the leader of a single resistance group. How can they love each other if they have different visions? He promises to stab himself blind, but when he looks at the kitchen knife, he sticks in silence for a long time…

04

(2015)

Joey is imprisoned by Nick for seven years and gives birth to his son Jack after being raped. From his childhood, Joey tells Jack that the small room they live in was the whole world. Their only connection to the outside world is the skylight above their heads that cannot open.

It is until Jack is five that Joey tells him the truth and tells him to run away.

In this scene where Jack escapes, the truth is all before his eyes. The room is open, and it will not close again. The world is no longer a piece of skylight.

05

(2015)

At night, the mother saw two dead sons in a hallucination, and she opened her clothes to breastfeed them.

But all of this, of course, is a trick of the devil.

When she comes back to reality, instead of a baby on her chest, there is a crow pecking at her breast. Her "happy" laughter sounds like a crow's mourning.

06

(2016)

Chiron is a lonely boy who has no father, his mother is a drug addict and gives him little love.

Learning to swim with Juan is the first time he experienced the feeling of being cared for. They are not related by blood, but a dedicate and father-like feeling stirred their hearts with the waves.

07

(2016)

Even in physiology class, you can't hear the word "menstruation" this often - 23 times in less than two minutes.

The story of 20th Century Women happened in the 1970s, when old-school people find the word "menstruation" uncomfortable. Abbie, a feminist pioneer, asks people to join her in reciting "menstruation". The story begins from this clip.

08

(2017)

Six-year-old Moonee lives with her mother in a cheap hotel called the "Magic Castle". She often tricks strangers into buying her ice cream.

At the end of the film, she realizes that she will be send to "another family", so she flees to her best friend Jancey's house. Jancey grabs Moonee's hand and runs all the way to Disneyland – a real magical castle, always so close to them.

09

(2017)

Because of the medical malpractice, Steven is cursed from the patient's family that his children and wife would experience paralysis, inability to eat, bleeding eyes, and then die unless he kills one of them. At the end, Steven ties up his family and blindfolds them and himself. He shoots a random round. One shot, two shots, three shots… it's bizarre and torturous.

10

(2021)

It's a sheep with human hands on one side and hoofs on the other. Is it creepy? But the film could be more unexpected.

At the end, its real father appears, with a sheep's head but a human body. He raises a gun and aims at his "target"…

That's all for today. I hope these clips will make you more interested in A24.

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