It’s been a while since I wrote anything on
this blog. You could say that life has caught up with me lately. Poor excuse,
but that’s how it is. Shit happens and we need to focus on what important.
That’s something the main character in this movie should learn by the way. It’s
obvious already from the start that she has a lot of issues. What kind of
issues isn’t clear from the beginning but as the movie goes along we note that
she has problems with herself. She lacks self-confidence and doubts herself in
each and every way. Unfortunately I don’t think this is very uncommon for you
women. Or anyone else for that matter. But let’s start from the beginning…
Kate has a relationship with Leah and we are
made aware of the sexual tension already in the opening scene. This is also the
first time we see tendencies of Kate’s issues. We just haven’t figured them out
yet. At least didn’t I. From this moment on it’s really a one woman show film.
That is to say that Whitney Able as the character Kate, does most of the screen
time on her own. It takes an actress of great skill to pull it off and I
believe that se dis a great job with it. I’m fascinated by her persona.
Anyway. When the lesbian lovers split up for
the day we get to follow Kate. She lives in a neighborhood that is far from
glamour. It’s kind of the slum actually. I don’t think she likes it at all but
the main thing is that there is a power outage that affects the entire city, or
at least a large portion of it. There are few occasions when we don’t really
know what to do, I know that from personal experience, that are worse than a
power outage. We so take power for granted in our daily life.
It’s obvious that she get on her own nerves
when she has to keep herself company. Her demons grows stronger with each dark
moment. She goes about for a drink and some company but when she gets rejected
her world falls further apart. She becomes more and more paranoid in her own
mind. She cannot distinguish reality from her own mind. She see enemies all
around her and the smallest sound is a threat to her security. It grows darker
and darker but the greatest darkness is yet in her own mind and in the
nightmare she’s about to wake up from.
This is a fine movie. Great acting and skilled
direction. I think it’s thrilling most of the time even if the pace might be a
little too slow at times. It’s a flick that is far better than I expected. I
kind of love it. Really I do! And it gets even better after a few hours, when
what really happened has had a chance to melt in. This is a thoughtful movie
with a great script!
8/10
