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 2^nd 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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