Great story, the movie builds up slowly but it isn't neccessarily boring. The mystery builds early, we learn that Enid lost her sister when she was younger, but she can't remember what happened. Her job is to censor movies that are too grotesque and need editing/cutting/banning. She supposedly green-lits a movie that is rumored to lead to a man going insane and murdering his family. He later claims that he cannot remember anything about the incident and he is dubbed The Amnesiac Killer. This incident triggers Enid: how come he doesn't remember? The same way she can't remember what happened to her sister. A colleague tells her that the brain often can't remember things that were too traumatic.
She watches a movie that needs reviewing, but it seems eerily similar to certain "memories" Enid seems to have from the day her sister dissappeared. This incident sends her spiralling and we soon learn than Enid is an unreliable narrator.
Things aren't as they seem anymore.
She believes she saw her sister in one of the movies she reviewed and goes on a search. She visits a movie rental store and you can see her look at a movie that decipcts a happy family and rainbows on the front, which is important for the end of the movie.
We watch her visit someone she met at work and she accidentaly kills him, however, the morning after she is imagining that he calls her to yell at her for running out, which reinforces the point that Enid is unstable and NOT a reliable narrator. You can't trust her point of view any longer.
She goes to a set where her "sister" is supposed to perform her last movie. She is in too deep into her psychotic break and goes insane. She kills one of the actors because she thinks she is finding out the truth, while everyone around her is just following the script.
What we then see at the end is basically 2 movies layered on top of each other, a reference to an earlier point in the movie. For the most part we are watching Enid believing that she is living in the "happy family movie with rainbows" that she was looking at earlier, but we get short cuts from where we see a much darker story; a woman crying in a car, concerned parents in the front yard, a woman screaming for help. This tells us that Enid is hallucinating; she believes that she has found her sister and brought her home to her parents to be a happy family again, but nothing is further from the truth. She has kidnapped a woman who looks like her sister and killed people during her psychotic break, the same way "The Amnesiac Killer" has.
I personally would have loved a shot at the end where we can see clearly (as viewers) that Enid is the one who did all the bad things and that we would still get some answers. We know that Enid killed the director and one actor, but we don't know if it was her who killed her sister or that she only witnessed it. But then again, this also leaves the movie up to the imagination and can leave viewers debating amongst themselves about what really happened.
The movie definitely has layers, so you need to be present while watching, but I do recommend it.
Scare score: a 5 out of 10.
She watches a movie that needs reviewing, but it seems eerily similar to certain "memories" Enid seems to have from the day her sister dissappeared. This incident sends her spiralling and we soon learn than Enid is an unreliable narrator.
Things aren't as they seem anymore.
She believes she saw her sister in one of the movies she reviewed and goes on a search. She visits a movie rental store and you can see her look at a movie that decipcts a happy family and rainbows on the front, which is important for the end of the movie.
We watch her visit someone she met at work and she accidentaly kills him, however, the morning after she is imagining that he calls her to yell at her for running out, which reinforces the point that Enid is unstable and NOT a reliable narrator. You can't trust her point of view any longer.
She goes to a set where her "sister" is supposed to perform her last movie. She is in too deep into her psychotic break and goes insane. She kills one of the actors because she thinks she is finding out the truth, while everyone around her is just following the script.
What we then see at the end is basically 2 movies layered on top of each other, a reference to an earlier point in the movie. For the most part we are watching Enid believing that she is living in the "happy family movie with rainbows" that she was looking at earlier, but we get short cuts from where we see a much darker story; a woman crying in a car, concerned parents in the front yard, a woman screaming for help. This tells us that Enid is hallucinating; she believes that she has found her sister and brought her home to her parents to be a happy family again, but nothing is further from the truth. She has kidnapped a woman who looks like her sister and killed people during her psychotic break, the same way "The Amnesiac Killer" has.
I personally would have loved a shot at the end where we can see clearly (as viewers) that Enid is the one who did all the bad things and that we would still get some answers. We know that Enid killed the director and one actor, but we don't know if it was her who killed her sister or that she only witnessed it. But then again, this also leaves the movie up to the imagination and can leave viewers debating amongst themselves about what really happened.
The movie definitely has layers, so you need to be present while watching, but I do recommend it.
Scare score: a 5 out of 10.