Chewed Up (Thoughts on The Neon Demon)
Whoever said money can’t solve your problems Must not have had enough money to solve ‘em. Ariana Grande, "7 Rings" (2019) “The Neon Demon (2016).” IMDb , Amazon Studios, 2016, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1974419/mediaviewer/rm143201792/. Accessed 3 Dec. 2020. This post contains spoilers for The Neon Demon (2016) and both versions of Suspiria (1977 and 2018). Consider this a content warning also for brief discussion of sexual assault and necrophilia and for general unpleasantness. There’s media we interpret, and then there’s media that asks us to interpret it. Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon (2016) is one of those pieces that asks. It’s constructed in such a way that it clearly announces its intenti...