By Robert Scucci
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I think it’s time for me to finally eat my words because I got what I asked for and I don’t know what I feel about this. A reproach that I have always had on a certain type of psychological thriller is the way in which the trophy “female protagonist unreliable” has become tired and disappointing because there is always a kind of third act reveals that the caller of the interior of the house was in fact his repressed memories to haunt it or something similar and incredible. ObserverWho is currently seated in place n ° 5 on the list of the 10 best films in Netflix, has proven that you do not need an emotionally unstable protagonist and to the point of a nervous break because their paranoia is in fact justified, and they do not flying off plugs of anxious drugs all the other scene, making you question their mental state at each stage.
Although I have mixed feelings on Observer To do exactly what I wanted to do (the grass is always greener, isn’t it?), It is one of the best psychological thrillers that I have seen recently, because it creates an entirely different anxiety type – the one that is not a source of unknown terror, but that which is in the open air that everyone chooses to raft like an illusion.
I have the feeling, someone looks at me!
In Observer, Julia de Maika Monroe has every reason to feel out of her element while she moved to Bucharest with her husband, Francis (Karl Glusman), so that he can focus on her work.
Francis, who is clearly done for himself, spends long periods of time far from the couple’s new house, while Julia, a woman between opportunities after having left her actor aspirations in the United States so that she can stay close to Francis, does not have a good range on Romanian speech despite her efforts to learn the language and assimilate, and devote all her time alone in his new apartment.
Julia, who is isolated in her new life situation, becomes frightened when she notices the silhouette of a man behind the curtains who looks in her apartment on the other side of the street throughout the day, well in the night. By constantly looking at the news of the day in order to immerse themselves in the language and local events, the fears of Julia are confirmed after hearing the reports of serial killer Known as “The Spider”, which made the headlines to beheaded women on which he attacks.
Distinguish themselves from psychological thrillers framed in the same way, Observer Never makes you question Julia’s mental state, but rather makes you feel his paranoia and her first -hand disillusionment because she known She is monitored and followed by a potential serial killer, but no one believes it. Francis speaks to him because he thinks that his imagination is unleashed, and each time the authorities get involved, they have reasons to believe that Julia is the one that makes all harassment because, to be fair, she becomes obsessive by Daniel Weber (Burn Gorman), the man who follows her, and wants to confront him with his strange behavior.
Turn the script
While there was a part of me who wanted Observer To be a little more ambiguous in its delivery, I made peace with the fact that the writer / director Chloe Okuno overturned the script and I decided to never make you question what is happening, even if the story is told from the limited paranoid point of view and more and more (but rightly).
Observer is not your typical psychological thriller. It is a cut above his contemporaries because the secondary form of film antagonism is how Julia really brings together proof that prove She is followed by a tangible threat hiding in the shadows while everyone in her support network, Gas, made her think of what everything is in her head, making her slide in any way you expect.
It doesn’t take much time for you to understand what is really going on Observer Because Julia never cries a wolf or acts so unknown that you really need a great revelation or a gain to give meaning to her situation. Observer Adopts a different approach and illustrates how scary it can be for a young woman to walk alone in an unknown territory. In addition, Julia does not decompose because she calls into question her own reality, but rather because she knows what she lives is real and everyone prefers to assume that she is dramatic because she has too much time on her hands.
To date, you can broadcast Observer on Netflix.
