Come True, 2020 (D)
A horror movie about an 18 year old girl?/young woman? with nowhere to go and a sleeping problem. Every night, she dreams of the same shadow figure at the end of her nightmares. She goes to a sleep lab to see what they can do for her.
So the good parts about the movie are the girl herself, and the imagery of the nightmares. They are repetitive in terms of sequence, always consisting of a camera moving forward in a surreal landscape, towards the shadowy figure, and then wake up. The images are goooooood though. The movie takes place in present day, as indicated by smartphones and nothing else. The sleep lab has that vintage 70s/80s computer look, and the movie has sound design that is reminscent of the Stranger Things theme.
The bad is the slowness of it. It keeps you interested by having this hypnotizing vibe, with the synth music, slow tone and almost perpetual nighttime setting past a certain point. The movie is divided in chapters named after Jung's concepts relating to the unconscious, but I don't think there's any meaning to those as far as the movie is concerned. Once the end comes around though, it fizzles out. BADLY. It drags for a good 10 minutes at least, and the end itself is so ******* stupid that I knocked it down from a B+ to a D just for that. It's at that moment you realize it's more of a bunch of short stories mashed together than a singular project with a vision. Many, many ends remain completely loose. The movie doesn't tie itself together in a nice little bow, but certainly hopes you'll care enough to wrap up the whole thing yourself.
A horror movie about an 18 year old girl?/young woman? with nowhere to go and a sleeping problem. Every night, she dreams of the same shadow figure at the end of her nightmares. She goes to a sleep lab to see what they can do for her.
So the good parts about the movie are the girl herself, and the imagery of the nightmares. They are repetitive in terms of sequence, always consisting of a camera moving forward in a surreal landscape, towards the shadowy figure, and then wake up. The images are goooooood though. The movie takes place in present day, as indicated by smartphones and nothing else. The sleep lab has that vintage 70s/80s computer look, and the movie has sound design that is reminscent of the Stranger Things theme.
The bad is the slowness of it. It keeps you interested by having this hypnotizing vibe, with the synth music, slow tone and almost perpetual nighttime setting past a certain point. The movie is divided in chapters named after Jung's concepts relating to the unconscious, but I don't think there's any meaning to those as far as the movie is concerned. Once the end comes around though, it fizzles out. BADLY. It drags for a good 10 minutes at least, and the end itself is so ******* stupid that I knocked it down from a B+ to a D just for that. It's at that moment you realize it's more of a bunch of short stories mashed together than a singular project with a vision. Many, many ends remain completely loose. The movie doesn't tie itself together in a nice little bow, but certainly hopes you'll care enough to wrap up the whole thing yourself.