Halsey's If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power Movie

[JD]

I just discovered earlier today that Halsey released a movie as a companion piece for her latest album, If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power, and it's on HBOMax.
Halsey wrote it and stars in it, and it was directed by music video and commercial director Colin Tilley.
Here's the description from IMDB:
If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power, an hour-long film experience set to the music of Halsey's upcoming album, introduces a young pregnant Queen, Lila, as she wrestles with the manipulative chokehold of love to ultimately discover that the ability to create life (and end it) unlocks the paranormal power within her.

Trailer:

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I haven't seen it yet, but I'm planning on watching it tomorrow.
Anybody here seen it?

 

[M'rk son of Mogh]

Before clicking that trailer, I asked myself "What's a Halsey?"

Looks interesting, though! Hadn't heard of it or her before.

 

[JD]

I watched it this morning and really enjoyed it. It's basically a 50 minute music video, which is more or less what I expected.
It's definitely an example of style before substance, but I like the style so I'm fine with it.
I like to give a little content warning here, so there Halsey does have two full frontal nude scenes, one with her and several other nude women, and one where she's very pregnant, and there is also an almost rape scene. The whole thing really has kind of a dark, disturbing vibe to it, so if any of that bothers you, you might want to avoid it.
EDIT: Oh yeah, there's also a scene where Halsey's husband hits her, and a fairly tame decapitation.

 

[JD]

Speaking of the nude scenes, I kind of wonder how they did the first one where's she's not pregnant. If they did a Avengers and just flattened out her stomach or of they filmed all of the stuff before she started to show, and then went back and filmed the rest after she got bigger.