i thought it was well done. well shot, very tense, well acted, well written.
but it made me feel so sick to my stomach, i'm not sure how i feel about it.
i wouldn't watch it again. i don't want to go through that. its just too heavy.
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i thought it was well done. well shot, very tense, well acted, well written.
I agree with everything you said except I'd give it an F instead of a D-
I actually thought it was intensely terrifying. More than once I stopped the film for a few moments thinking to myself that I could not go on. It was just so intense, so disturbing. I cannot believe how horrifying they made everyday activities, such as going to the coffee shop or browsing a DVD section.
I think it was just how REAL it all felt to me. I'm a female college student living on my own - I was just completely sold that this could happen to me. I never once felt like I was watching actors. Rather three real, utterly serious people who could be classmates or neighbors. Their personalities, their fears, their problems, I felt as though I really knew these people, understood them to an extent. I could know these people right now and I wouldn't even realize it until it was too late. The hand-held student film approach just enhanced this feeling. I was practically sick to my stomach with dread. So perfectly believable.
My one complaint would be that it was, well, almost amazingly slow and rather boring at times, and would have been completely so if the atmosphere hadn't had me so suffocated with fear that I couldn't bring myself to turn it off or just read about what happened online. That wouldn't have been fair to it. I felt that anything that could evoke such a strong emotion in me deserved at least enough courtesy to see it through as it was meant to be seen. Even this just echoed back into the whole, looking identical to amateur documentary work that could very well be being made by some normal, friendly looking students at my school -right this second- abject horror it had going on.
I agree with everything you said here. Funny thing is, I'm a 33 year old male, and I live in Sweden. In other words, I'm almost the complete opposite of you, but that never prevented me from becoming invested in the story, the characters or the locations. At the end, I almost had to pause the movie, for the same reasons you described, and I sometimes do pause movies just to take a breather or continue watching the next day. But this time I didn't, because as much as the ending felt repulsive and draining, I didn't want to ruin all the tension and suspense it had built up.
Whenever I finish a movie I often take a quick peek at the IMDb boards, and more often than not I'm disappointed with peoples unwillingness, or inability, to suspend their disbelief. They pick at a movie, they dismantle it, they don't seem to be able to follow the simplest of stories unless they're completely hand-held through the entire thing. This movie was not complicated, in fact, it was unusually to the point. It didn't even present itself as a movie, but as a couple homemade clips thrown together by kids. As a "movie" it was bad, and obviously intentionally so. And still you find people posting and arguing on what "really" happened. They just go on and on, I don't know.
I guess what I'm saying is it's relieving to hear someone else appreciated it, because after seeing the horrible user score it has gotten I was starting to think I was the only one.
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I also thought it was excellent. I have no idea where all the hate for this movie is coming from, unless they didn't like it because of how disturbing it was. I could buy that. I thought it was well done, it kept my attention the whole way, and props to the two female leads Stephanie and Kayla. Stephaine just oozed nihilism and Kayla reminded us how beautiful people can be in such a sad, depressing movie. Bravo!
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