Horse Girl: Bizarre

In the Netflix film, Horse Girl, Alison Brie plays Sarah, a socially awkward craft store worker, who slowly makes her way towards insanity. Director Jeff Baena's Horse Girl is a character study that transitions into a darker story on mental health. Sarah is an ordinary girl who likes crafts, going to zumba and is obsessed with a supernatural crime show. The film succeeds in making the transformation from the quirky indie comedy to a exploration of mental illness that adds a bizarre feel to the story with an unreliable narrator walking audiences through the story. The first part of the film feels similar to Brie Larson's Unicorn Store but then quickly diverts from being a normal indie comedy.

Sarah has no social life and is consumed with her job at the local fabric store. Viewers feel empathy for Sarah through he interactions with those around her and the way she carries herself; she feels removed from the real world. We feel bad for her even before she starts experiencing sleep walking and emotional instability. We all have known a Horse Girl in our lives and Sarah fits the archetype perfectly.

Brie is a co-writer on the film and the way she portrays Sarah shows how close she holds the character to her heart. She becomes Sarah and is mesmerizing as she does. There is evidence of trauma in Sarah's life from her visiting her mother's grave to interacting with her disabled friend. It seems as Sarah's life will improve when the romantic interest of Darren is introduced in her life but it only escalates the