Return itThe second film Danny and Michael Philip is the return of directors to their strange view of a duel and fear. Just like in Tell me (2022), the tape explores a story in which extreme suffering is the door in the direction of the supernatural and then monstrous. But this time, the Directors Duet decide to go further, which simply reflects on the horror of death in order to concentrate the plot on something darker. What someone will do to bring a beloved creature that lost.
Nose Return itPhilip will take an even more risky step. This time they put off the accelerated rhythm and black humor, which marked their opera Prima to completely immerse themselves in raw and without salvation. From the very beginning, when two brothers find his father’s lifeless body, history makes it clear that there is no place for hope. The film is dense, without comic relief, without jewelry. Each scene is loaded with sadness, voltage, Out of fear, which seems to be born more from human pain than from paranormal.
This time, ghosts do not seem obvious, but they feel in the environment. Horror is more emotional than visual, more alleged than obvious. Filippow’s commitment is not easy: they build a family drama, disguised as a horror film, where the presence of a supernatural serves as a metaphor for a desperate desire to restore the lost ones. This is not a continuation or continuation of their first film, but they have the same obsession. Turn death into an enemy to overcome.
Two characters marked with a stop
In the center of history is Andy (Billy Barratt) and Piper (Jora Wong), two brothers are trying to adapt to a new life after the loss of their father. These are children who should not be loaded with such great pain, and yet they are forced to grow up too early. Andy, the eldest, Take a protective role, while the piper demonstrates the fragility that moves.
Both are welcomed by Laura (Sally Hawkins), a woman who also suffered a deep loss and who, with good intentions, tries to build a new family with them. Nevertheless, it is soon clear that Laura is not right. His sadness becomes obsession, and his need for Filling out the void leads him to increasingly alarming behavior.
Sally Hawkins plays Laura with a mixture of sweetness and imbalance, which freezes blood. Oliver (Johan Ren Phillips) also lives in the house with a quiet child who adds an even more alarming element. The film creates a heavy atmosphere where nothing seems safe, and every gesture hides a threat. This is not the history of monsters, but poorly closed wounds, connections that turn when love does not know how to leave. Terror in everyday life is that he is silent.
Reality and madness are embarrassed to “return it”
One of the most interesting solutions of the film is his way to play with the perception of the viewer. It is not always clear what is really happening. The film is full of ambiguous signals, fragmented images, moments that can be memories, visions or just errors. Laura begins to perform rituals that are not explained at all, as if trying to survive something or someone, and although we are not telling what we are looking for, we understand that she is ready to cross any limit. This constant uncertainty is one of the great successes of history: the viewer never controls.
Fear is built of what is not shown what is proposed. Philip does not emphasize anything, they believe that the public will read between the lines. Which does not scare uneasily, but the feeling that everything is now broken. Each plane seems to be loaded with something hidden, as if the house itself keeps secrets that no one dares to reveal. Return it This is a demanding, but powerful film. The viewer sHe feels caught not for ghosts, but for the deep sadness of his characters.
Then the tape moves into darker places. Each scene is more painful than the previous one, and there is no happy ending in sight. Laura, blinded by her need to restore what she lost, makes decisions that pull everyone around her. There are no clear villains, only broken people trying to fill their gaps as much as possible. Love, In this context, this becomes dangerous: it ceases to be a refuge to become a prison.
Risky bet on “return it”
Horror in Return it This is not what attacks, but an emotion that is overwhelmed. Philip shows that they do not need large effects or terrible creatures to cause fear. They are enough for human pain in pure form. And it is difficult to endure many times than any monster. With this second film, they confirm that your cinema is not made To have fun easily, but to remove the viewer.
Return it This is intense, hard, but also the necessary work. First of all, because it is asking about a duel, how we cope with love when it becomes obsession. This is not a film that enjoys. This is the one that survives. And then someone remembers this. For a long time.
Source: Hiper Textual
