This one was upon recommendation by you, the viewers. Specifically, someone going by the moniker ‘InfectedGoat’ I believe. Said it was a slow burn. Yeah, I agree. It takes a little patience at first, but the things that seem a little off at first really do get a lot more off by the end. By, like...a LOT.
A guy in Berlin Wall-era Germany (honestly, east or west side isn’t exactly readily apparent but I guess from how nice their apartment is, I’d go Westward side), he spends a lot of time on the road for his ‘job’, returns back to his wife and their young child. Things obviously aren’t okay in the marriage. Both seem to want different things from life. It gets a bit yelly. A bit slappy. And then, well, there’s a carving knife and a meat mincer and… Let’s just say maybe both these two don’t seem like the most stable of people. So dramatic. But… I can’t even begin to describe how off-kilter it gets from there. Nor will I! Definitely have to see how this one unspools.
What starts out as basically just a shitty marriage going to hell and the ramifications of that with their young son Bob, it’s just altogether unpleasant. I’ll say the acting is a bit melodramatic, but Mark and Anna are _both_ just a bit...off? But then, say, about an hour in? Yeah, it goes headfirst into insanity-land. Not character-wise. That’s just psychological. This might be From a little...Beyond that. It’s intriguing that this is a younger Sam Neill here, he has some interesting roles in the future that are kinda tangential to this. Great role by Isabelle Adjani, too. Very straight-forward how it plays out, it’s just growingly disturbed in a natural progression. Some of the acting may be a bit overplayed in particular moments, but overall it’s like a bridge from Lovecraftian Polanski into an Ari Aster kind of fuckery. I just feel sorry for their kid, Bob.
