For obvious reasons, such as the two main leads Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt and the fact that the movie is about Hollywood and filmmaking, you can compare this film with a Quentin Tarantino picture "Once Upon The Time In Hollywood". But even though Quentin injected a very high amount of energy into his film, with the shier insanity of Babylon, comparing it to "Once Upon The Time In Hollywood" is like comparing RRR and Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon".
In the same time you can do weird stuff that is also repulsing in some way. Not necessarily horror. And use the shock factor of the movie to make it selfpromotable. Movies that are unnecessarily depressed or unnecessarily weird do well for starting filmmakers because it makes a certain visceral impact on people. And then those people want to share the visceral feeling they got with other people. That is how film-makers like Quentin Tarantino got their start.
It's so weird to be watching The Vast Of Night almost right after No One Will Save You. One movie has no dialogue, while the other is just dialogue. To be honest, it might seem very strange to make a film so dialogue heavy, if we didn't have people like Quentin Tarantino who shows time and time again that movies with a lot of dialogue can work fantastically.
The movie is violent. Kind of reminding the style of Quentin Tarantino specifically the first Kill Bill film, since it's similar to this movie, because they both have martial art scenes with female protagonists. Though Chocolate is a lot more tear-squeezing. Even though I didn't understand a single word they were saying I was crying throughout most of it. Even during the fight scenes. The actors and the director are that good. It doesn't mean though that it's not funny or awesome. It is designed very much to make you feel the full spectrum of emotions. And the director is not shy from shocking the hell out of you.
The movie could be not your cup of tea if you are sensitive to the middle east politics because it is very much about it. The movie stars an Israeli actor Lior Raz ( Hebrew: ליאור רז ) as the villain of the movie. The dictator of Turgistan. The actor himself is a real life bad-ass. He was once a bodyguard of Arnold Schwarzenegger. And during the October 7th attack by Hamas, he went into Sderot ( a city near the Gaza Strip ) to help with rescue operations there. Which is much cooler than just hanging out with the military there as Quentin Tarantino did.
Speed Racer ( yes it is the name of the main character ) is played by Emile Hirsch who you might have recognized from Tarantino's Once Upon The Time In Hollywood. And his girlfriend is played by Christina Ricci.