The movie is billed as a woman
joining a cult for the man she loves. This doesn’t quite explain everything, as
I soon found out. Lena (played by Ms. Watson) works for Lufthansa in 1973 and
surprises her boyfriend, Daniel (played by Daniel Bruhl) who lives in Chile,
during a time of unrest. Daniel is an artist and is part of the revolution. He
gets caught up with police rounding people up and ends up getting beaten and
taken to a cult/camp. Lena goes to his revolutionary friends, but they’re too
scared to help. She decides (for reasons that I’m still not sure about) that
she’ll go save him by joining said cult. What transpires over the next hour
plus is about what you’d expect in a cult. The leader is a would-be mouthpiece
of God and he is helped by those that have been brainwashed by his blather.
There is a wonderfully evil matron-type that goes to great lengths to mess with
everyone, and I did quite enjoy watching Lena bash her in the face with a 2x4
towards the end of the movie.
While this movie won’t wow you
into submission by the acting or the set pieces, considering it is free, and
helmed by some weighted stars, I’m still trying to figure out how I never got
the chance to see this in the theatre, because I would have. It was nice having
it on demand, as I could fast forward over the beatings in the beginning. I was
quite surprised by Ms. Watson’s range in this movie. In the recent past, most
of the movies she’s been in post-Potter have been supporting roles. In this
movie, she is the central character, a strong, determined young woman. It is
almost a perfect fit to the message she’s sending through her HeforShe
campaign. If you have about two hours to kill, I don’t think you’ll be disappointed.
No comments:
Post a Comment