Post by Radrook Admin on Jul 2, 2024 21:03:06 GMT -5
Out of Darkness Spoilers Included
Like many other movies, this movie seriously tests a viewer's ability to suspend disbelieve. Let me explain exactly how it went about it.
This movie starts by having the protagonists, a small group of approx. six people, appear on a beach, as if they have just been shipwrecked. Strangely, there is absolutely no sign of any vessel, such as a small boat or at least a raft, or the remains of a raft. Neither did they look wet, or as having been through any kind of an ordeal at all. They seemed exactly what they were, actors who were safe and sound, and who had been placed there on that beach to converse and be filmed.
They also speak to one another about how grateful they are to have finally reached another shore and escaped some type of difficulty. Strangely, the film never tells us exactly what they were fleeing from. I found this extremely distracting. After all, as a viewer, what exactly am I supposed to be imagining?
Then they suddenly introduce what is intended be perceived as a horrendously dangerous monster who produces this high-pitched unearthly sound, and who seems to have the ability of super speed mimicking the movement of many. This monster easily kills their leader in an extremely gruesome way.
Then abruptly, they reveal the monster to have been merely a frail looking woman who starts fleeing into the distance for her life. Now, from that point on, I lost interest. After all, there is no way that this frail woman could have been producing that abnormally high-pitched inhuman sound, nor have been that superhumanly extremely agile. From that point onward, I felt absolutely no interest in whatever they might be choosing to present next. But I watched the rest anyway.
Yes, I am aware that the film's intentions is to portray how humans sometimes tend to descend into savagery based on distrust. But the glaring flaws just enumerated, makes the effort ineffective.
They also speak to one another about how grateful they are to have finally reached another shore and escaped some type of difficulty. Strangely, the film never tells us exactly what they were fleeing from. I found this extremely distracting. After all, as a viewer, what exactly am I supposed to be imagining?
Then they suddenly introduce what is intended be perceived as a horrendously dangerous monster who produces this high-pitched unearthly sound, and who seems to have the ability of super speed mimicking the movement of many. This monster easily kills their leader in an extremely gruesome way.
Then abruptly, they reveal the monster to have been merely a frail looking woman who starts fleeing into the distance for her life. Now, from that point on, I lost interest. After all, there is no way that this frail woman could have been producing that abnormally high-pitched inhuman sound, nor have been that superhumanly extremely agile. From that point onward, I felt absolutely no interest in whatever they might be choosing to present next. But I watched the rest anyway.
Yes, I am aware that the film's intentions is to portray how humans sometimes tend to descend into savagery based on distrust. But the glaring flaws just enumerated, makes the effort ineffective.