Thoroughbreds Movie Review

Thoroughbreds (2017)

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Written by: Cory Finley
Directed by: Cory Finley
Starring: Olivia Cooke, Anya Taylor-Joy, Anton Yelchin, Paul Sparks
Rated: R
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Plot
Childhood friends Lily and Amanda reconnect in suburban Connecticut after years of growing apart. Together they have a plan to solve both of their problems-no matter what the cost.

Verdict
This is a twisted tale of deception and murder that's all the more horrifying as the potential criminals are teenage girls. I began to wonder if both of these girls are sociopaths, and they very well might be. The plans they hatch are devious and cunning. This is a well made movie, though I wish the conclusion had a bit more punch.
It depends.

Review
Lily is now a polished, upper-class teenager at a fancy boarding school; Amanda has become an outcast. Though they seem at odds, the pair bond over Lily's contempt for her oppressive stepfather, and they begin to bring out one another's most destructive tendencies.

Amanda claims to have no feelings, and I wondered if that was a put on. Could it be teenage melodrama? She may be a sociopath as she killed her horse. While the horse needed to be put out of its misery, Amanda took to an unusual method.

The step father comes off as a bit weird in the first scene. I wasn't sure if the the movie was trying to make him controlling or imply he was leering at Lily's friend. It could be both. Amanda plants the idea of murder which Lily quickly rejects. Continued abuses cause her to reconsider. The step father turns out to be a real piece of work. As the audience, we feel absolutely no sympathy for him. He's clearly a villain.

Anton Yelchin plays a local criminal coerced into a crime.

Lily seems to be just as cold blooded as Amanda. The trick a local criminal into helping them.
This has plenty of dead pan lines, and being high schoolers plotting murder is quite the juxtaposition. They have a good plan. While it doesn't work out the conclusion is intriguing. Which girl is the more sociopathic? It's hard to say.