Obsession

I didn't love it, but i liked it. I've grown up watching movies without really boxing them into genres. Horror movies aren't necessarily horror to me. I tend to treat them as thrillers, tragedies maybe social commentary. What I consider horror is the cheap stuff: jump scares, ghosts popping out of dark corners, the equivalent ofI someone yelling "boo" into your ear. The conjuring, the nun types. Very few movies in the last few years have made me feel quite like this. It feels like a YouTube movie more than a theatrical one, and I mean that as both a compliment and a criticism. Despite that, I'm incredibly glad I watched it on the big screen. The plot is admittedly a bit nonsensical, but it's interesting enough that I never felt compelled to interrogate it too much. The film keeps moving and doesn't give you much breathing room to stop and look back. What I liked far less were the cheap horror tricks (creepy smile, lady in corner). They feel beneath the movie. Worse, they often come at the expense of Inde's performance, which I lowkirkenuinly think is like top 5 of this decade. There are multiple scenes where the film buries her in shadows, framing her in a way that almost feels like it's trying to hide a weaker actor. The one towards the end was the worst of them all and made like 0 sense. Earlier I said this feels like a youtube movie, and part of that comes from the visual presentation. At times it genuinely looks like it was shot on an iphone and then drenched in an orange-teal LUT during post production. I kept hoping the film would lean harder into the pinks and reds but alas. The most underrated aspect of the film, though, is the music. Chefs kiss, i don't see many people talking about it but holy shit was that perfect Is the movie some groundbreaking new modern masterpiece? Not really But judged relative to its contemporaries, its such a refresher. (Uhm the drama uhm) Lead actor was also really really good, but i can't stop seeing charlie kirk