‘Blink Twice’ is frustrating and thrilling

Naomi Ackie and Channing Tatum in “Blink Twice”

There’s a sharp and knowing sense of the zeitgeist running through “Blink Twice”, the directorial debut of actress Zoë Kravitz. Too much, at times. It’s there in the soundtrack, some of the choices which Kravitz has commented on like a killer needle-drop from one of the songs off Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’ album in a climactic moment. It’s there in the moments of stylised montages where characters seem to float through several scenes buoyed by potent hallucinogenic drugs. It’s also there in the themes of excess and avarice as we watch the characters become immersed in the lives of the rich and famous, and the social indignities that come with that. And it’s especially there in the exploration of what contemporary womanhood looks like in a capitalistic and patriarchal world where more is always better.