*****This review contains spoilers***** If you don't expect Gone Girl then the film is quite good. Nothing special but definitely watchable.
The film follows Miranda (Rosamund Pike, pretty much the reason I wanted to watch this film) who lives in a small town. We only see her with her work colleagues and also her father (Nick Nolte). We see her having troubles around town and she is also dating. One day one of her dates, William (Shiloh Fernandez), arrives early and causes her a lot of harm, going to prison in this process.
I'm sure if you have read anything about this film you will know the subject matter. This particular scene is very brutal and quite a lengthy scene. It made me feel sick.
The film from this point goes a few different directions and had me questioning some of the actions of the characters. We see Pike and Fernandez's characters agreeing to meet in the prison. They believe that they can erase the horrible memory by getting to know each other and putting things right. Some of these scenes are hard to watch and at times a little cringe worthy.
When William is released from prison, the film becomes even more strange as we see him go to Miranda's house (something which she agrees to) to help fix the house up. She is trying to sell the house but nobody will buy. William goes to the house for a few days helping her out and it is just strange, it is one of the weirdest on screen relationships I have ever seen. I didn't know if this was it or whether there would be one last twist.
It was very much a slow burning process appearing to go nowhere until that classic scene happens, yes you guessed it, William's drink is spiked by Miranda...how predictable. She then takes him hostage in her basement and becomes to torture him in a style similar to Ellen Page in Hard Candy (2005).
After finally getting to this stage of the film I felt the ending was rushed. Everything is left open to the imagination of the viewer as nothing is really shown but I'm pretty sure there was only one outcome.
Overall it was an OK psychological thriller with a good performance from Rosamund Pike. At times the film felt a bit unnecessarily slow and cringe worthy but it is a decent film to watch once if there is nothing else on.
6/10.
The film follows Miranda (Rosamund Pike, pretty much the reason I wanted to watch this film) who lives in a small town. We only see her with her work colleagues and also her father (Nick Nolte). We see her having troubles around town and she is also dating. One day one of her dates, William (Shiloh Fernandez), arrives early and causes her a lot of harm, going to prison in this process.
I'm sure if you have read anything about this film you will know the subject matter. This particular scene is very brutal and quite a lengthy scene. It made me feel sick.
The film from this point goes a few different directions and had me questioning some of the actions of the characters. We see Pike and Fernandez's characters agreeing to meet in the prison. They believe that they can erase the horrible memory by getting to know each other and putting things right. Some of these scenes are hard to watch and at times a little cringe worthy.
When William is released from prison, the film becomes even more strange as we see him go to Miranda's house (something which she agrees to) to help fix the house up. She is trying to sell the house but nobody will buy. William goes to the house for a few days helping her out and it is just strange, it is one of the weirdest on screen relationships I have ever seen. I didn't know if this was it or whether there would be one last twist.
It was very much a slow burning process appearing to go nowhere until that classic scene happens, yes you guessed it, William's drink is spiked by Miranda...how predictable. She then takes him hostage in her basement and becomes to torture him in a style similar to Ellen Page in Hard Candy (2005).
After finally getting to this stage of the film I felt the ending was rushed. Everything is left open to the imagination of the viewer as nothing is really shown but I'm pretty sure there was only one outcome.
Overall it was an OK psychological thriller with a good performance from Rosamund Pike. At times the film felt a bit unnecessarily slow and cringe worthy but it is a decent film to watch once if there is nothing else on.
6/10.