Guys, this one was just excellent. Can't quite call it "dark," since it takes place in the vibrant and beautiful and hella tacky world of Orlando, Florida, but it's beyond dark. It's outright tragic! And yet also weirdly wonderful and happy and innocent, as it's largely seen from the point of view of a fun-loving six-year-old girl. Does she know, can she even comprehend or fathom, that her horrible mother can barely afford to keep them off the streets, living week-to-week in a rundown motel outside of Disney World? Of course not - she's just a kid who wants to run around and go swimming and take selfies and eat ice cream with reckless summertime abandon. This is a movie about a community of marginalized people - the type of people who turn to petty crime and small scale hustling and prostitution in order to scrounge up enough cash to keep going for another week. It's downright depressing. It's also downright life-affirming.
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