I absolutely enjoyed the tense mystery maintained throughout the movie.
Very interestingly shot, with some weird camera work keeping it kind of dreamy.. Now I'm thinking as I wrote that, how unrealistic some moments of my life felt when I was taken out of my comfort zone and shocked into a new reality.. it really felt like this.. Except for the very odd choice of the intro music (completely out of place, I don't know why it was like that, honestly) the music helped a lot with the tense atmosphere, I thought it was on spot.
The characters are well written, at least to the point of making sense, within what the society is today, of course, hate them if you want. I actually disliked most of them! That's probably the only reason I didn't give this movie a 10, but it doesn't get in the way of the story.
The story is VERY solid and VERY scary. Scary in the way that I can see this happening and I don't see it too far off, sadly.. Call me pessimist, paranoid, whatever, but the events in the movie are very solid and factible.
In terms of what's the point or what happens in the movie and in the end, I think it's almost spoon fed, it's literally said by one of the characters to another inside the car, after visiting the neighbour. Seriously, how people are missing this??!!
The very end scene is just to point at how distracted we are with media living in such a complex and troubled society today. You may or not like that bit, but take it off and it doesn't affect the story, which I found quite shocking with the last scenes imagery.
Honestly, it's one of the more solid movies I've seen the last years and I find shocking how people is not getting it (their words, not mine).. Some North Americans may take offence, I guess? Of course I don't know for sure, but might seem an unpopular, too scary vision of their (everyone's, anyways) future.. In short, this is a very solid, suspenseful movie with a lot to think about afterwards.
Highly recommended.
Very interestingly shot, with some weird camera work keeping it kind of dreamy.. Now I'm thinking as I wrote that, how unrealistic some moments of my life felt when I was taken out of my comfort zone and shocked into a new reality.. it really felt like this.. Except for the very odd choice of the intro music (completely out of place, I don't know why it was like that, honestly) the music helped a lot with the tense atmosphere, I thought it was on spot.
The characters are well written, at least to the point of making sense, within what the society is today, of course, hate them if you want. I actually disliked most of them! That's probably the only reason I didn't give this movie a 10, but it doesn't get in the way of the story.
The story is VERY solid and VERY scary. Scary in the way that I can see this happening and I don't see it too far off, sadly.. Call me pessimist, paranoid, whatever, but the events in the movie are very solid and factible.
In terms of what's the point or what happens in the movie and in the end, I think it's almost spoon fed, it's literally said by one of the characters to another inside the car, after visiting the neighbour. Seriously, how people are missing this??!!
The very end scene is just to point at how distracted we are with media living in such a complex and troubled society today. You may or not like that bit, but take it off and it doesn't affect the story, which I found quite shocking with the last scenes imagery.
Honestly, it's one of the more solid movies I've seen the last years and I find shocking how people is not getting it (their words, not mine).. Some North Americans may take offence, I guess? Of course I don't know for sure, but might seem an unpopular, too scary vision of their (everyone's, anyways) future.. In short, this is a very solid, suspenseful movie with a lot to think about afterwards.
Highly recommended.