When I found the film, I was hoping for a horror slasher type movie set in the beauty industry but it isn't a full-fledged horror until the end. The Neon Demon is more of a psychological horror thriller that explores concepts about standards of beauty, narcissism, envy, and jealousy. It was the film or watching soaps with wifey … ear plugs in laptop on.
The story is very simple. It follows Jesse, played by Elle Fanning, 16-year-old orphan we are led to believe. She leaves small hometown America with dreams of being a fashion model and on the way stumbles into the industry with her agent, telling her she must tell everyone she is 19 years old. She becomes friends with a make-up artist and two very decadent and cynical models. Jesse has a devoted loving boyfriend and lives in a crummy motel owned by Keanu Reeves. He's a cruel and insensitive person.
However’ Keanu's character is the least of Jess's worries because she is a young naive innocent teenager trying to make a career in the cutthroat fashion industry. Moreover, Jesse definitely gets "swallowed up" literary in the monster that is The Neon Demon.
It's a very artsy type of film. Visually stunning and character driven though like it is suppose to be since the topic is how the fashion world is obsessed with the essence of beauty and youth. I thought the story was a little too long and abstract. But definitely creepy especially Jesse's fate at near the end. I felt sorry for her character. Most of the movie is mostly long shots of absolutely beautiful cinematography.
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