Despite the fact that it was released in 2021, CallsDirector Fede Alvarez for Apple TV+ remains one of the most innovative on the platform. This, exploring terror and drama through a kind of resource. Combine the sound of phone calls with a screen on which you can see only wavy graphics. Much more than television production, this experience can be classified as the experience of Pódcast, which has taken to a completely new level. Only the director, who also writes the script for most episodes, intends to create something original. And he manages to unite both formats in one.
From the first episode, only thirty minutes production shows the ambition of its premise. The conversation between the two strangers who question the meaning of reality and what surrounds them soon becomes an open door to something darker. In particular, when the plot shows that each fragment is connected by a general stream: a fatal incident that each interlocutor testifies. However, each episode also works independently, Which allows the story to be much deeper than you can assume at first.
Part of success in the premise CallsIt consists in the ability to be exciting, perverted and well -grown. This, not using anything but the votes of his main characters. Production uses restrictions on its format to specify the expectation. Much more, create the feeling that upset conversations full of fear, and in other cases, pain is the stories of real fragments. By the time when history shows a darker appearance, the absence of scenarios, Landscapes and even the face of some protagonist only increases the secret of the premise.
A series of terrible events
From the first episode, which in the first person says that it seems to be an apocalyptic event, the story rises to tell about the origin of the tragedy. So, more than nine episodes, Calls Use different conversations to show an increasingly terrifying, dark and complex scenario. From a temporary loop that makes a man face the loss of his family, A rare crime that includes a suitcase, full of money, and breakdown of the couple.
The series deepens its plot through what seems a handful of random events. Only they no longer measure that history flows, pieces of information set up the future of a supernatural event. The script has a sufficient ability to combine not only small insinuations in conversations with something big. In addition, in order to convert this set of tips, more and more cumbersome into the way to switch to their argument. CallsIn general, this is much more sensory experience than TV. But the argument is and the form that the Federal Alvarez raises events – It is hard enough to indicate a common point.
This is nothing more than a complete anomaly in reality, which, in the visible one, extends through the world and becomes more and more serious. Gradually, calls will be a link not only between the characters. At the same time, in order to cover the magnitude of the situation that can be understood only by joining various parts of all the experiments that they share. Calls He uses collective experience to establish the amount of what his characters describe between mysterious events. Also, to deepen his suffering, terror and hopelessness. A brilliant resource that gives the series the best points.
Luxurious cast for a non -traditional series
Despite the replacement of the possibility of a cinematic section to accompany history, Fed Alvarez does not abandon the actors of unusual actors for their faceless characters. From Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Rosario Dawson, Mark Duplass, Obri Plaza, Nick Jonas to Pedro Pascal. Paul -Antology benefits from the talent of its actors to become more and more true and deep. Especially When the central event of the argument becomes more than just a hint.
Fede Alvarez, a veteran of a horror cinema, as well as creating atmospheric atmospheres with several elements, finds in Callscar to show your ability. But, in addition, to explore in a rare format that opens up new opportunities to tell complex stories with a choral history as a center. Even more interesting, demonstrating That a good plot does not need a scene specified to have property.
CallsWhich began on YouTube as a radial project of the screenwriter and director Timoth Hochet, is an example of a new border of the audiovisual. Especially at that time with the productions that make a bet on a complex visual scenario and all kinds of digital effects in order to explore them in the premise. But the series manages to demonstrate, almost easily, a point that scares and moves at the same time. Secrets of human nature can be deepened with the help of simple elements.How this non -traditional production demonstratesField
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