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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 396590" data-attributes="member: 23"><p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-size: 22px">The Good Neighbour</span></strong> (2016)</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><img src="https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.precision-pictures.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F09%2FGOOD_NEIGHBOUR_DVD_2D-1-564x800.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=d952b88088c308bf7036fdc499248766cc73fc9eae632254f2142b2b1fc01758&ipo=images" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">Not a film I'd heard of. It came up last night as a "film we think you may like" suggestion on Prime. I glanced over a couple of sentences summarising the premise, clicked away unimpressed but somehow ended up coming back to it as the least worst option. I'm sure the low expectations helped.</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">Thinking back to the film, the Hitchcock parallels are many. The one that leapt out at me was the conspiratorial relationship between the two leads echoing that in <em>Rope</em>, with one being more timid and sympathetic while the other is shown as overconfident and willing to go much further (the latter element is explored and explained more here than in <em>Rope</em>, though isn't necessarily any better for doing so). There's the voyeuristic element of most Hitch films, but especially <em>Rear Window.</em> And there's the obligatory <em>Psycho</em> reference with hints of a secret waiting to be discovered in the basement.</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">The production, though, goes for slick 21st Century, with numerous flashbacks and flash-forwards spliced into the key story, dialogue that seems intended to be über-naturalistic, much of the story shown via cuts between the characters' own various cameras and (of course) the found footage element. The latter elements make this feel closer in practice to the likes of <em>The Blair Witch Project</em> than anything Hitchcockian, and this comes with the same baggage in the form of characters who are frequently brash and unlikeable making bad choices.</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">James Caan is always worth his weight in gold, and this is one of his more intriguing performances since he spends much of his screen-time alone at home, doing very little and unaware he is being watched. He doesn't have a great deal of dialogue, but still manages to be the best thing in this. Mindy Sterling was great as well. I actually convinced myself she was Lily Tomlin and at one point found myself reflecting that I hadn't realised before just how good an actress she (as in Lily) was.</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">It's a decent enough little film - especially, as mentioned, with expectations kept low - and has enough turns to keep the viewer invested. The suspense was also very well done: my heart was racing during a couple of scenes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 396590, member: 23"] [CENTER][B][SIZE=6]The Good Neighbour[/SIZE][/B] (2016) [IMG]https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.precision-pictures.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F09%2FGOOD_NEIGHBOUR_DVD_2D-1-564x800.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=d952b88088c308bf7036fdc499248766cc73fc9eae632254f2142b2b1fc01758&ipo=images[/IMG] Not a film I'd heard of. It came up last night as a "film we think you may like" suggestion on Prime. I glanced over a couple of sentences summarising the premise, clicked away unimpressed but somehow ended up coming back to it as the least worst option. I'm sure the low expectations helped. Thinking back to the film, the Hitchcock parallels are many. The one that leapt out at me was the conspiratorial relationship between the two leads echoing that in [I]Rope[/I], with one being more timid and sympathetic while the other is shown as overconfident and willing to go much further (the latter element is explored and explained more here than in [I]Rope[/I], though isn't necessarily any better for doing so). There's the voyeuristic element of most Hitch films, but especially [I]Rear Window.[/I] And there's the obligatory [I]Psycho[/I] reference with hints of a secret waiting to be discovered in the basement. The production, though, goes for slick 21st Century, with numerous flashbacks and flash-forwards spliced into the key story, dialogue that seems intended to be über-naturalistic, much of the story shown via cuts between the characters' own various cameras and (of course) the found footage element. The latter elements make this feel closer in practice to the likes of [I]The Blair Witch Project[/I] than anything Hitchcockian, and this comes with the same baggage in the form of characters who are frequently brash and unlikeable making bad choices. James Caan is always worth his weight in gold, and this is one of his more intriguing performances since he spends much of his screen-time alone at home, doing very little and unaware he is being watched. He doesn't have a great deal of dialogue, but still manages to be the best thing in this. Mindy Sterling was great as well. I actually convinced myself she was Lily Tomlin and at one point found myself reflecting that I hadn't realised before just how good an actress she (as in Lily) was. It's a decent enough little film - especially, as mentioned, with expectations kept low - and has enough turns to keep the viewer invested. The suspense was also very well done: my heart was racing during a couple of scenes.[/CENTER] [/QUOTE]
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