By Robert Scucci
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Most films involving a single character on the screen that never leaves their house often have their welcome in the first 30 minutes, but 2022 Monolith is not one of them. Has managed to generate tensions with its flow and limited frame, Monolith Tells a story of paranoia rooted in the paranormal without ever fully revealing its source of tension, leaving its disturbing end open to interpretation.
Although I have my own theories on the mystery leading to the third act which reveals in this science fiction thriller claustrophobic, its destination is not as important as its accumulation, which finds its protagonist who tries to have a large brick brick (literally) for which she could very well be part.
Everyone’s podcasting today
Lily Sullivan portrays an isolated woman known only under the name of the interviewer in MonolithAnd at the beginning, its history is not very unique. A disgrace journalist who tarnished his own reputation by starting to lie to one of his investigations and the experience of the type of career fallout that you expect, the interviewer is looking for his next big story which will help him recover his reliable source status in his field.
Resolved to start a podcast centered on supernatural events and other inexplicable events, the interviewer receives a call about a mysterious black brick which makes it in a spiral in an obsessive way when it hears a multitude of similar stories involving their sudden appearance, and their ability to make their subjects experience lively hallucinations and alter. Episode.
As the interview widens more and more deeply MonolithShe comes into contact with a German art collector named Klaus Lang (Terence Crawford), who collected dozens, if not hundreds, of these black bricks, and who urges her to be cautious by discovering their origin.
Like the most science fiction Thriller films which focuses on a somewhat reliable protagonist, the interviewer’s odyssey Monolith becomes more and more confused, but not in a way that makes you think “I have already seen this before” because the external forces are obviously at stake despite its state of psychological solution slowly.
Do not bother the tropes, they bear fruit
Caught between a black brick and a hard place, the interviewer embodies each psychological thriller trope found in MonolithBut in a way that doesn’t take away from the film. Of course, there are sequences that involve the way the interviewer loses track of days while recording his conclusions to the windows and walls of the massive house of his parents in the distant desert, and telephone calls from friends and colleagues concerned telling her that she went too far in the bizarre rabbit hole because she feels the similar phenomenon.
Although it is easy to assume that the interview folds the truth Monolith – What she sometimes does in the form of an intelligent edition of some of her telephone calls – because her podcast quickly becomes a success and that she is enthusiastic about this new feeling of validation that she has so desperately desperate, she always maintains a level of reference of journalistic integrity once she finds herself to drown her discoveries in a deluge of Copycate stories that she wanted sincerity before publishing her discoveries.
While she digs more deeply in the mystery, things no longer become confusing when a brick arrives at her house, which makes her have visions similar to those reported to her.
Streaming Monolith on Tubi
Does the interviewer have these visions because she heard so much about them and wants to live them from the first hand? Or does something more sinister in play simply not be explained in rational terms? Ending with an end which is wide open to interpretation, Monolith Will let you scratch your head and visit electronic babibllards to unpack its many twists and turns.
Monolith Starts as your typical generic science fiction thriller, and in many ways. But do not let its narrative framework you deceive because it subverts all the expectations along the way, proving that the gender conventions that you know too much can still give interesting results.
To date, you can broadcast Monolith free TUBIS.
