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This film works because...

posted 9 years ago by songod-95003
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...you genuinely like the couple. Too often in genre films today there is one of the small group of characters that is a total jerk. Typically, in this film, it would have been the husband. Had that been so, the unfolding of events would have not been so heart breaking as well as creepy. So cheers to the writer and director for steering clear of that modern stereotype.

In another films forum where there were "no likable characters" I proposed that the trend, especially in found footage "reality" films, is that perhaps it is a mirror of our society where there are few likable people? Manners, for example, have gone out the window to the point where people today do not even know they are being rude! So maybe we're all jerks and a good number of films simply reflect that? Loving couples as depicted here are the anomaly.

[–] thor5894 9 years ago

Agreed. As I mentioned in my review, when you get to the end, and think back on how loyal Paul was, and how it is understandable how Bea chose to handle the fraught situation she was in, it makes the story that much more heartrending. I thought this was genuinely a great film.

(Or, you can make yourself depressed and read the inane threads complaining about the accents. I choose not to.)

[–] songod-95003 9 years ago

There are always inane comments about any movie here on IMDB!

The only off note regarding Paul before the oddness started with Bea was his morning after sex comment about "giving your womb a rest". That on the second viewing rang as odd on his part. A slip? A mental brain freeze confusion of vagina and womb?? A subliminal hint at wanting a baby? His macho cover about *beep* her so hard" seemed just that; infantile HS sex talk. It obviously bothered Bea as she brought up the subject of children again, as I recall, when on the lake.

Nonetheless, they were a perfect couple for each other and certainly did not deserve the fate that awaited.

[–] Technomage001 9 years ago

It felt a little generic with the other lady appearing to do the exact same thing. Also with both husbands not calling anyone for help.

[–] songod-95003 9 years ago

If both women denied anything happened what were they going to tell the police? "I think my wife was assaulted but she won't confirm it?" By the time Paul finds her torn and bloody nightgown in the woods things had been going on for a while. I suppose then he could have called the police but out there in nowhere how long would it take for them to get there and was there anyone in law enforcement to actually call (park or forest rangers perhaps)?

[–] deathtopixies3 9 years ago

They had really good chemistry together. Their relationship came across as authentic and genuine. For me, that was one of my favorite aspects of the movie. It made the ending that much more intense.

[–] eadwinn 9 years ago

True, also works because it keeps the horror vague instead of giving us some exposition sequence and simplifying it all. The movie comes off a tad Lovecraftian and that's what's also really cool about it.

[–] songod-95003 9 years ago

Agreed and usually I dislike an ending that is open. But in this case there was little question what had happened to both women, we did not need to see a spaceship or bug eyed aliens to know.

Some films have endings so vague or open that they frustrate more than entertain. This was not the case here.

[–] gilmcmil 9 years ago

Totally agree. I was tempted to stop watching early on because I thought it was going to be a "love story", lol.