Saturday 19 October 2024
(watched, at the theater 📽️)
I've never seen that much density of scary stuff in one movie. This is hysterical. Very neatly directed, including several impressive long takes, and overall splendid craft from beginning to end. I also noted the sound design/mixing which was "powerful" somehow. This was quite the experience watching all of this in a packed theater.
My only problem with it is that I didn't like the end of the movie, which was a big letdown for me. The end implies that quite a big chunk of the last part of the movie was hallucinated (not exactly sure from where it started being all fake), which I don't find as interesting as an alternation between reality and hallucination, with at least some kind of link to reality that the character would be able to hold onto in order to fight the hallucinations. Without that, we're just watching a pure descend into madness, which is artistic, I guess, but not narratively compelling, in my opinion. At least not as compelling as what it could have been.
I've never seen that much density of scary stuff in one movie. This is hysterical. Very neatly directed, including several impressive long takes, and overall splendid craft from beginning to end. I also noted the sound design/mixing which was "powerful" somehow. This was quite the experience watching all of this in a packed theater.
My only problem with it is that I didn't like the end of the movie, which was a big letdown for me. The end implies that quite a big chunk of the last part of the movie was hallucinated (not exactly sure from where it started being all fake), which I don't find as interesting as an alternation between reality and hallucination, with at least some kind of link to reality that the character would be able to hold onto in order to fight the hallucinations. Without that, we're just watching a pure descend into madness, which is artistic, I guess, but not narratively compelling, in my opinion. At least not as compelling as what it could have been.