(Dir. Dan Trachtenberg, 2016)
Rated PG-13, this movie has a lot of really freaky elements, but it never becomes explicit. 10 Cloverfield Lane tells to story of a woman who awakens in a bunker after having a car accident. The man who brought her there, Howard, claims that there has been an apocalyptic event and the air is now toxic. What follows is a psychological thriller where the woman must decide what is real and what is a lie, but quickly realizes she must escape no matter what. **Spoilers** I have a lot of mixed feelings about this movie. I enjoyed the movie as I was watching it, but once I finished I started to wonder about some things. I'm torn between liking the way they made it turn out so that the end of the word threat really was real, and feeling like they should've just stuck to one genre. I thought it was kind of cool how they made the threat real, because that doesn't usually happen in these psychological thrillers. I liked even more how she still had to find a way out, because even if Howard was right about the external threat, he was still crazy. However, I went into this movie not knowing what Cloverfield (Dir. Matt Reeves 2008) was and I feel like that knowledge would've completely changed the movie for me. I can see it being a much different experience when you know exactly what is going on externally, because when I watched the threat outside was unknown. Even after I knew there was a threat, I didn't know exactly what was until about the very end. When I watched it I wondered why they didn't hold out longer before revealing there was a real external threat, but now that I know about Cloverfield I'm really glad they didn't. By not relying on that aspect to much I think it makes it appealing to people that have already seen Cloverfield. I do want to know more about the girl that Howard probably did actually kidnap, but I feel like that would've been hard to fit in so I'm not that mad about it. **End Spoilers** The acting was spectacular. John Goodman is amazing, of course. He did an amazing job of making his character seem intimidating and crazy, even when he wasn't directly threatening anyone. To be honest this was especially terrifying to me because I've grown up with John Goodman playing the good guy in Disney movies, so this was quite the switch. It's like watching David Tennant play the bad guy in Jessica Jones. The use of lighting in this also really added to the atmosphere. The unnatural lighting helped add to the claustrophobic feeling of the bunker and made an amazing contrast with the natural light whenever they were close to reaching the outdoors.
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Aubrey KirchhoffI'm just screaming into the void and somehow getting graded on it. Archives
April 2018
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