Compliance (2012)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2012
	Director: Craig Zobel
	Actors: Ann Dowd, Dreama Walker (Gran Torino), Pat Healy (The Innkeepers)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Drama, Polar
	Conditions of visioning: 04.09.2012, CINEMA theater, MFFF2012
Synopsis: A police officer calls the manager of a fast food restaurant to ask her help in investigating a possible theft by one employee. As he pretends to be busy, he will ask the manager to push further and further the humiliating interrogation on the employee.
Review: How far can you go with a telephone prank? How much can you control credulous people? The smooth-taking caller starts by imposing himself as a police officer, and we can then see how he manipulates the manager of the restaurant but also the victim (the employee). The director successfully sets the right atmosphere for the events, i.e. a busy fast-food restaurant on a Friday night. The tension is high and the viewer wants to know what will happen next. At some point it becomes exagerated, but the director manages to efficiently release the tension. I found that the actress playing the employee (Dreama Walker) looks very much like Rose McGowan (Charmed, Scream, Planet Terror). Inspired by true events (see the Wikipedia page), the movie is an interesting reflexion on the reaction of people to authority, similarly to the German movie Das Experiment and its American remake.
Rating: 7 /10