Few filmmakers show willingness to entertain the audience and promote the behavior of making movies like this Steven Soderbergh. His photography includes images Eleven people in the ocean and Magic Mike, and Lo-Fi, low-budget experiments, e.g. bubble and Girlfriend experience. Presenthis latest movie (by David Coepp), kind of falling into the middle of these extremes. Soderbergh works within the scope of low-budget horror movies, but also pursues his more experimental tendencies. The result is a movie that may not make genre purists but a fascinating view of the experience of watching the movie.
Koepp’s script sets what you expect in a haunted house movie. The Payne’s family moved into a new home. It has a ghost. The role of most haunted houses movies is to propose a viable reason that the story never leaves the house. The audience sees everything through the eyes of the Holy Spirit, haunting Paynes through the first person perspective.
Call up Present Horror movies can be charitable. David Koepp’s script seems to be more interested in family drama than in haunted house scripts. Lucy Liu’s Rebecca tries to avoid potential job scandals, while her athlete son is eliminated. Daughter Chloe, by Karina Liangtrying to deal with her best friend’s recent death, while her father tried his best to do her best.
There are indeed a few scenes that create fear or act as a set piece to create atmosphere in a simpler horror movie. However, in this movie, the visuals in Georges Méliès’ film seem to appear directly. The only thing that looks like in a genre movie is Lucy Liu’s last scream, almost Lynchian.
There is little meaning of real fear in the movie that seems to be the point. Present Meet the movie that is like Soderbergh is watching and discovering Supernatural activity And asked himself, “What if I talk about this from a ghost’s perspective?” By asking this question, Soderbergh created a more powerful film. A movie that requires the audience to consider their roles in watching the movie.
When the family negotiates with the psychologist, she tells them that the spirit is different from the human beings’ interpretation time. This is also how we watch movies. Time and space are the authority of the filmmakers, and the audience is trapped in the explanation, plaguing the characters they are watching like ghosts in the movie. When the ghost tries to interact with the character in vain, it may be the person yelling on the screen. For Soderbergh, the real horror in a horror movie is what the audience cannot change or influence them to watch.
The latest trends in the trends in the form of horror movies, e.g. In the nature of violence and Select,,,,, Present It may test the patience of the movie audience. Soderbergh’s interest lies more in experimenting with storytelling than in making people expect blood or atmosphere. This will be a part of the movie that splits people. but Present It’s exciting about how we watch movies and how they make the audience active for participants. It tells us that the movie may bother us after watching it, but before we bother the movie in the first place.
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