Freaking jump scare. No one warned me about the Lynchian opening and the Tarkovsky-style long shots, shot in low budget misfortune, Here suffers from raw foggy footage (lacking color grading) and cheap audio capture (microphone from Temu). Manufactured as a film school project extremist, there’s no personal input coming from Ho Tzu Nyen, only utilising popular-ready techniques to fuel the progress inside Island Hospital. Interview-like conversations leave the narrative to dry, almost presented as a slow documentary but interesting at times, although it gets quite repetitive. All aspects of cinema was nailed: blocking, composition, framework, pacing; sadly the script was prosaic and insipid; performances were too clement to be felt (no criminal infliction); tiresome mental facility drama indeed. Very frequently a same shot is brought up again, for a couple of times, I understand its effect, however it becomes very remote, then stiff to look at. Silent film caption usage in the mute scenes paid a tribute maybe? The lack of financial resources could have subjugated this film’s ambitious vision, arthouse friendly but poorly executed.

Freaking jump scare. No one warned me about the Lynchian opening and the Tarkovsky-style long shots, shot in low budget misfortune, Here suffers from raw foggy footage (lacking color grading) and cheap audio capture (microphone from Temu). Manufactured as a film school project extremist, there’s no personal input coming from Ho Tzu Nyen, only utilising popular-ready techniques to fuel the progress inside Island Hospital. Interview-like conversations leave the narrative to dry, almost presented as a slow documentary but interesting at times, although it gets quite repetitive. All aspects of cinema was nailed: blocking, composition, framework, pacing; sadly the script was prosaic and insipid; performances were too clement to be felt (no criminal infliction); tiresome mental facility drama indeed. Very frequently a same shot is brought up again, for a couple of times, I understand its effect, however it becomes very remote, then stiff to look at. Silent film caption usage in the mute scenes paid a tribute maybe? The lack of financial resources could have subjugated this film’s ambitious vision, arthouse friendly but poorly executed.