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| Year of first release: 2016 | |
| Director: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman | |
| Actors: Emma Roberts, Dave Franco, Emily Meade, Miles Heizer | |
| Country: HK, USA | |
| Genre: Polar, Drama | |
| Conditions of visioning: 30.08.2016 | |
| Synopsis: Vee (Roberts) is a high school senior. Struggling with her best friend, she gets herself immersed in an online game of truth or dare as a "player", where her every move starts to become manipulated by an anonymous community of "watchers". | |
| Review: Even if the story looks like the classical movie on a game that turns bad, this movie questions the usage of electronic user data. The question is very modern with cases as Whatsapp (see here for more) and Pokémon Go (see here for more). The story is the escalation of the game in one day as watchers do not stop to bet on the players. What players dare to do to their friends and others for money. What watchers are able to ask to the players. Humans are or accept to be vicious, mean and traitorous. I loved the story. And the rythm given that breaks a group of friends in a short time. The music enhances the rythm of the movie with a nice mix of oldies and modern songs. The actors look like the typical young adults and old teenies nowadays and this makes also the movie more modern. But their acting is quite idle. The esthetic was nice being kind of bling bling in the darkness of New-York side streets. Or the cave where the group of hackers à la Chaos Computer Club hides. |
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Rating: 7 /10
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Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Nerve (2016)
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From the description of the movie you give in your review the spying of others on Internet reminds me of Open Windows with Elijah Wood and the game (dares) of the excellent Cheap Thrills.
ReplyDeleteThe topic sounds very actual and interesting and makes me want to see the movie.