French director Alexandre Ajia established his status in the arena with large-scale blood and violence themes. Fans who have watched "High Voltage Electricity" and "An Eye Behind the Mountain" will feel the same. After that, he was given the opportunity to enter Hollywood to make films and continue to display his "bloodthirsty" qualities. The last film "Crocodile Storm" also made mainland audiences fortunate to witness his housekeeping skills. He didn't expect that he would return to filming French films after a lap in Hollywood. What was more unexpected was that this time he gave up the high-cost production and turned out to be a secret room thriller genre , which was shockingly surprising.
The story tells about a young woman waking up in a cryogenic cabin. She does not remember who she is and why she is here. Since the oxygen is about to run out, she must rely on the help of artificial intelligence to restore her memory in order to escape this nightmare scene. The scenes and characters have a minimalist meaning: from beginning to end, the heroine is trapped alone in a small space without too many fancy big scenes. The key to this experimental script lies in the sense of suspense. The suspense in the first half is very beautifully created, and the plot has been misleading the protagonist and the audience to guess in the direction of revenge. In the dialogue between her and the artificial intelligence, her impatient mentality and the latter's indifferent and rigid answer formed an escalating atmosphere of tension until the truth gradually emerged.
The tension in the second half of the plot was immediately vented. The concept of clones and space colonization is almost the same as that of Hollywood sci-fi blockbusters, and the creativity is discounted. However, the argument that the film is simply regarded as a space version of "Buried" is a bit too crude. It is more like an experimental work that mixes "2001 A Space Odyssey" and "Gravity". The performance of Melanie Rowland alone supporting the audience is quite interesting. The actress who has appeared in Quentin's "Inglourious Basterds" and is familiar to fans has an unforgettable performance in the film: relying only on sound and Facial expressions accurately interpret the characters of confusion, tension, anger, joy, fear, despair, etc. that span a huge span and are highly contagious.
Unexpectedly, the plot of the story is like a projection of the epidemic era. The heroine’s memories flashed through the pictures of medical staff wearing isolation gowns and enhanced this association: isolation of loneliness, dying despair, and facing an unknown future . This atmosphere is suffocating. If the plot of the memory flashback is more restrained, the rhythm and quality of the film will be more satisfactory.
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