Hi
everyone! I have just finished watching "The Discovery"... and it
was... strange? creepy? I don't know, but certainly this movie is a
wind of fresh air. I have tried to gather my thoughts in a review, but the
truth is the movie has left me with a mixture on disclosed feelings. Let me
know what you think and if you haven’t, go watch the Discovery- avoidable on
Netflix.
THE
DISCOVERY REVIEW
Directed
and written by Charlie McDowell, “The Discovery” (2017) is a sci-fic movie; the
cast stars are Rooney Mara who plays Isla, Jason Segel as Will and the
legendary Robert Redford as Thomas Harbour.
The plot:
The movie starts with Harbour- the man who has discovered and proved the
existence of an afterlife- being interview. After his discovery, a huge amount
of people has suicide and so, the interviewer asks him whether he feels
responsible for this creepy growing trend. It is the 2nd anniversary
of the discovery, when Will- Harbours’ son, travels on a ferry where he meets
Isla. The man said the woman looks very familiar to him, even if, apparently,
they have just met each other. They begin talk and Will reveals her that once,
while being dead for about a minute, he saw a boy running at a beach. Isla and Will take different roads, to meet
again the day after on a beach, where Isla is about to commit suicide and Will
stops her. Will brings Isla at his
father’s residence, where people who attempt suicide are gathered in order to
recover and re-enter the real life. This is the beginning of the Discovery.
Things that
you will enjoy:
·
The
Discovery: and, most of all, its implications. I have liked how the discovery
of an afterlife would affect people’s behaviour. Feels creepy.
·
Memories:
all the movie seems a complicated fragmentation of memories that spread of each
character but, at the end, all gathers.
·
Isla:
a out-of-scheme, freaking real person. And Rooney Mara is, once again,
fantastic.
·
Isla
and Will’s relationship: not a simple romance between two broken human beings.
·
The
finale: love the bi/tri dimentional ending
The
cinematography:
·
Love
the visual expressionistic effects and the unusual angles of the camera-
especially the ones in water when Isla attempts her life.
The music:
·
Puts
you in the perfect status to understand the dramatic purpose of the story
Things that
you might complain:
·
How
does the machine work? I have liked to know more about it.
·
Will’s
brother: I didn’t like much his character. He seems useless.
·
The
girl and her no-real reason- shot… you are like “why the hell?”
Movie
Rating: 3/5
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