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| Year of first release: 2013 | |
| Director: Gonzalo López-Gallego | |
| Actors: Sharlto Copley, Erin Richards, Josie Ho | |
| Country: USA | |
| Genre: Thriller | |
| Conditions of visioning: 11.09.2013, Sao Jorge Theater, MotelX2013 | |
| Synopsis: A man wakes up in the wilderness, in a pit full of dead bodies, with no memory and must determine if the murderer is one of the strangers who rescued him, or if he himself is the killer. | |
| Review: The story reminds the comic books XIII for the search of one's remembrance. We follow a group. Slowly they discover their dreams, slices of remembrance and their relationships. The suspense is maintained via separating the group, and giving infos only step by step. Good! Only the character of the Asian woman is disturbing because sometimes her behaviour is fully dumb while she is suposed to be the start and the key of the story. During a short stolen interview of the director with JoRafCinema, Gonzalo López-Gallego confirmed that the main topic of the movie is the remembrance, not only personal but also historical. The pictures of graves in Yougoslavia and Rwanda influenced his work even if the final scene is a CGI on a place found by casualty during shooting. |
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Rating: 7 /10
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Friday, September 13, 2013
Open grave (2013)
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I didn't like the movie so much, and I found that the memory-loss trick is too easy and has been used too many times (Why can't the bloody asian character make them understand what is going on, even if she doesn't speak the same language she can draw!). The twist is not a real one because you guessed it half an hour before. So it seems to me that me movie hesitates between different styles and cannot decide on one: thriller, horror, whodunit, more relationship betenn the characters...
ReplyDeleteStill, there are the qualities you mentionned. My rating: 5/10.