The Automatic Hate Essay

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“The Automatic Hate” is one of those suspenseful family dramas that you expect something emblematic and even predictable to come out of it, but all of a sudden the story switches to something more reinvigorating, if sporadically hypocrite. Joseph Cross and Adelaide Clemens competently play two cousins who had never met before and become physically attracted to each other while they try to reunite their fathers. Davies Green (Cross) is a quiet Bostonian chef who lives deeply concerned with the deplorable emotional state of his dancer girlfriend, Cassie (Deborah Ann Woll), after an involuntary abortion. Patient but exhausted, he gives signs of needing some relaxed time to himself to free his mind from the traumatic wound caused by the happening. …show more content…

After approaching the seductive Alexis, he meets her other two sisters, and the four spend a good time at a local bar - drinking, laughing and misbehaving. As they attempt to find out what could possibly have separated their fathers for so many years, Davies and Alexis don’t resist the temptation of being alone in a cabin in the middle of the woods and become physically involved. With the death of his grandfather, Davies eventually gets the family reunited at his parents’, the perfect moment for the director, Justin Lerner (“Girlfriend”), to elevate the dramatic side of the story by spicing it up with frontal provocations and hostile attitudes (Clemens is particularly great at this point after she has annoyed me with a senseless weeping). Mr. Lerner's sophomore feature combines the suspense, coming from unpredictable behaviors between ‘strangers’ and undisclosed past secrets, with the typical turmoil that erupts from dysfunctional families, and still appends an out-of-bounds affair to the tempestuous feast. In addition, he deliberately surrounds a mystery that is well fed by the ingratiating performances. The result is a minor indie film that, swinging between entertaining and inessential, feels as dodgier as

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