“Hurry Tomorrow 'Review: The Weeknd's explosive music video

Under the bright adrenaline of the “Blinding Lights” of Weeknd, which was classified as number 1 of all time in 2021, Anima (Jenna Ortega) is really a story of emptiness. As the singer's super fan, she tells this to the Weeknd (also known as Abel Tesfaye) herself – while his hands are tied to the bed post in a hotel room.

Like an acid-trip-pop star from Stephen King's “Eleny” by “Eile Up Tomorrow”, a cinematic companion, to Tesfaye's newest album (supposedly his last as the Weeknd), the most suitable manifestation in history is in a way.

But the film directed by Trey Edward Shults, who wrote the script with Tesfaye, is primarily a covered music video The shrinks and discharges the universe to which the songs of the Weeknd gestures. Tesfaye plays as a superstar with a broken heart, which, alongside his best friend and manager Lee (Barry Keoghan), exists in an apparently eternal bender. After losing his voice on stage during a show (based on Tesfaye's true experience), he finds consolation in Anima, a mysterious girl in the crowd whose obsession with him immerses him in a kind of ego-death horror show.

All of this seems to be a proper farewell to a musical identity that has always focused on the dark cinema. It was in the Alt-R & B sound that he helped Pioneer and the shadowy person he cultivated; The conceptual trilogy of his last three albums showed all a pronounced protagonist who crossed the underworld and after -lived (and at a point with a bandaged nose à la Jack Nicholson's private eye in “Chinatown”).