No one doubts this: Director of Stephen Soderberg has one of the most unique Hollywood races. Especially because of his ability to deepen complex problems from original and rare angles. Conflicting success Sex, lies and video cassettes In 1989 to the cooling and almost premontation Infection 2011. The truth is that the director gave a turn for painful rooms and most of the time, it is difficult to explore in the cinema. Something, which again does in IDENEHis first raid in horror films.
But the tape is much more than a supernatural story. What is and removed from the ability of Soderberg with a subjective camera. In addition, this is a rethinking of the path of ghosts and supernatural performances using cinema resources to make it more ominous and new. So the whole tape is reported through the point of view of the spectrum, which goes from the room to the room in the place where it is located, cannot remember who it is. Not one How he died or the reason why he is connected with the family he observes.
This is a cunning formula that allows the director to explore and experiment with a cinematic prospect to tell his story. So IDENE He plays with the point of view of the camera as a narrator, but also in how he orders the information he provides. From time to time, the tape seems to be jumping time, returns to unexpected scenes, or simply moves into the future. What, how The argument becomes more terrible, but without losing a certain touching background.
A new way to tell a gloomy story
To achieve the above, IDENE Make a difficult decision: never determine his spectral protagonist. So the viewer knows its existence only thanks to his ability to be a silent and completely detached evidence of the world in which he is located. Especially from the center of the entire argument. An empty and deserted, Soderberg quickly shows that this place will soon be populated by a new family. Thus, in the first minutes of the film, the director manages to raise his unique idea of a horror film. Everything will be told from the fact that the spectrum can see and complete.
Then the camera becomes an omniscient eye, which follows the characters where they go. Which allows the director to make more inconvenient, as he represents or explores them in their conflicts. Speed, it is clear that there are no closed doors or intimacy for the spectrum. Much less, restriction for the subsequent. A brilliant turn that allows the scenario to have A privileged view of each member of the recently arrived in the house.
Mother, Rebecca (Lucy Liu), is a woman with a secret towing and enormous guilt to hide. On the other hand, Chris (Chris Sullivan) is an worried father who does not know very well how to cope with a growing stress that stunes all the inhabitants of the house. Finally, his daughter Chloe (Kallina Liang) crosses a complex duel and begins to think about death more than conveniently. All situations that you have to face, In addition to a possible supernatural force that lives in the house.
Intellectual visual section
To achieve the real effect of an object capable of crossing the walls and doors, Stephen Sodelberg then resorts to a brilliant visual trick. This, uniting what Metraje Fotage found, seems to be a long one. Step by step, what seems to be erratic sequences that strive to tell about life and circumstances Each of his main characters ultimately gives the weight of the ghost.
This, uniting a sense of persecution – in the end, IDENE This is a horror film and does not forget it – as well as about the inevitable danger. Whatever happens in the family house, in the center of the argument, this is not harmless. No complete obligations. Gradually play the prospect of the tape, It also turns into a way of explaining the phenomenon that occurs in the house.
Only a contemplative presence, the spectrum begins to interact with its environment. Thus, Chloe immediately understands that the house is inhabited by something, what cannot be seen. It is through the character that the script manages to tell most of its conflict and delve into the terror that hints. The director reaches a growing sense of fear, working in the future ghost. Thus, this avoids just the found Fotage to combine two different scenarios.
On the one hand, how Chloe perceives the spectrum that follows it everywhere. On the other hand, as the family reacts to evidence that they are not alone in the house. Then Soderberg explores the fear of the unknown from the point of view of who causes him. In addition, from the idea of terrible, As a combination between a person and inexplicable.
Experimental cinema to tell a universal story
IDENE He has an advantage that, despite the fact that he is novelty from the point of view of the visual section and a way to tell his story, this is, in fact, a story about loneliness. At the same time, about the absence, duel and fault. Since the presence includes the place where it is located, which is located and even, which is associated with the family, which follows everywhere, Soderberg makes his tape more mysterious. This, after conducting experiments with a linear or traditional idea of terror.
Thus, the tape is full of long sequences, which show that their characters do common things. Nevertheless, the argument is qualified enough to mix all the information that it provides to increase the voltage. Step by step – especially in the last ten minutes – IDENE This is becoming more inconvenient and claustrophobic. This, partially revealing their secrets and clarifying What hides a concept that controls life and death.
Soderberg does not want to give explanations, and even more so, to weigh the divine or mystical dilemmas. Instead, tie various scenarios of the film, with a painful and hard conclusion. Everything without losing elegant air and the content of the tape. The achievement that doesIDENE In one of the best horror films in recent years.
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