If you like to exit a cinema speechless, confused and with a raised eyebrow, this is the flick for you!
I recommend going into this one with as little information about the plot as possible. I had only read about the premise that children were being abducted in a dying mining town, and the rest unfolded for me perfectly as I watched.
The twists and turns this movie takes left me very pleasantly confused. I like a movie that makes me think. I hate the predictable Hollywood mush where it is clear from the beginning whom to root for and whom to despise. In this one, you can never be sure whether the sympathy for one character or the other will turn around and bite you in the ass.
I'd like to point your attention to one detail I noticed. When the main character played by Jessica Biel goes searching for David, she enters a chapel-like structure with a writing on the wall about Saint Barbara who is actually the Patron Saint of "miners" (people who work in mines)... only, it's (mis-?)spelled "minors" (young people). (I don't think the set decorators got that one wrong. The error is on purpose).
Tiny details like this are the icing on the cake of a perfect little gem of a movie.
I *did* like Martyrs, in a twisted, guilty pleasure kind of way, and I did like "the Tall Man", but for other reasons, namely because it kept me guessing till the end. Can a character in a movie be Angel, Demon, Sinner, Saint, Madperson, Sane ... in swift succession and you still like them? Go find out for yourself.
7/10
I recommend going into this one with as little information about the plot as possible. I had only read about the premise that children were being abducted in a dying mining town, and the rest unfolded for me perfectly as I watched.
The twists and turns this movie takes left me very pleasantly confused. I like a movie that makes me think. I hate the predictable Hollywood mush where it is clear from the beginning whom to root for and whom to despise. In this one, you can never be sure whether the sympathy for one character or the other will turn around and bite you in the ass.
I'd like to point your attention to one detail I noticed. When the main character played by Jessica Biel goes searching for David, she enters a chapel-like structure with a writing on the wall about Saint Barbara who is actually the Patron Saint of "miners" (people who work in mines)... only, it's (mis-?)spelled "minors" (young people). (I don't think the set decorators got that one wrong. The error is on purpose).
Tiny details like this are the icing on the cake of a perfect little gem of a movie.
I *did* like Martyrs, in a twisted, guilty pleasure kind of way, and I did like "the Tall Man", but for other reasons, namely because it kept me guessing till the end. Can a character in a movie be Angel, Demon, Sinner, Saint, Madperson, Sane ... in swift succession and you still like them? Go find out for yourself.
7/10