Saturday, February 3, 2007

Ausentes

Watched this movie in Kira channel, Astro. Astro is our nation satellite Tv station. Checked using online translator, Ausentes (spanish) means Absentees.

This is a psychological thriller Spanish movie. The main couple in this movie, Julia (Ariadna Gil) and Samuel (Jordi MollĂ ) together with the children were moving into an urban outskirts area. The new home, seems to be an ideal case, but Julia starts to feel strange about her new living environment. She started to feel isolated. In her world, it seems no one living in the new housing area. From this movie, the director shoot the scenes in what Julia see or experiences. Hence, I am a bit bizarre when there were no one in her living area except her husband or children. It start to clear to me when the movie ended. I like the way that the director know how to bring the audience into Julia's world.

Julia star to feel distressed in her new environment. She feel isolated and tension between she and her family start to come into the saturation point. She was depressed, and can't distinguish between the reality and imagination. The emotion start to burst when she fight against with her husband and children. She used the car to hit his husband who she thought was trying to kill her. She also took a knife and try to threaten her elder son in order to save her beloved younger son. At that moment, when she holding the knife, she suddenly hear many people whispering, but no one around her. Then suddenly the camera changed where actually she was surrounded by all her neighbourhood. At that moment, I finally understand that the director took the scene that look through Julia's world of perspective.

In the end of the movie, Julia elder son try to approach her. But in her world, her son also disappear. She was alone and isolated from everyone, inside her mind.

This is quite a nice movie to watch since it really draw my attention to watch.

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