It is about a married woman who gets lost in a foreign city, and unnecessary ‘walking and sleeping’ is feeling that a mysterious neighbor is stalking her. Watcher is an enigmatic work of a shadowy thriller. The heroine starts to develop a kind of dyspepsia, and this is not a gastric discomfort. She hasn’t seen him all day and she is restless in a new city. Caught up in the violent world of illusion and paranoia, one wonders if the gravedigger’s likeness at the window is monitoring every flicker of Julia’s actions. Are they actually trailing her? The narrative describes the feeling of gradual suffocation like a poisonous blade being injected into the flesh. Watcher however will not allow for any sort of optimism by the time one arrives at its bittersweet conclusion. One would think some punches are lost for such a great start.
When Francis (Karl Glusman) starts working abroad, Julia (Maika Monroe) decides to accompany him to Bucharest, Romania. Once again, she settles into a new, enormous apartment located in one of the older Bucharest buildings. Knowing no Romanian herself, Julia makes effort to practice by reading books when alone during the day. It is there where she has the intruder in her imagination and why she assumes that the man across the street is always looking out of his house’s window (Burn Gorman). In addition, several unsolved hapless homicides have spiraled within Bucharest causing anxiety and it was left in doubt whether these murders are in any way related.
Julia from the very start has an issue with being surveillanced by the man living next door. Her shock is worsened when he actually begins to stalk her. This is why Francis tries to sort it out with him. She does not accept the fact that he is actually able to place his faith in her. Wary, Julia steps up to conduct her own investigations into what she has reason to believe is some stalker person’s behavior. Sarah from Francis’ perspective is different all together. She has simply release everything she is. Yes, she is beginning to see errors it in such processes. But it does not grow as abnormality in her; she in fact is beginning to wonder if there was a reason to stalk her at all.
Chloe Okuno is a screenwriter and director who has done best while beginning expand her film career from what been known as cinematic Hitchcock. A majority of such action really occurs within the confound of the apartment. Julia’s distress regarding her solitude is essential to draw those sympathies. The stride across the street emerges to be a dire threat to her its silent all encompassing direction. Each time there is a sound of someone knocking at the door, she feels frightened. And when she feels frightened due to her inability to speak the language, it raises the level of suspense in the plot. Okuno uses light, shadow and sound, but these are all treated with respect to one another. The gradual increments of intensity begin to dominate the plot.
The film is built around Monroe and how it is particularly configured, these all are witnessed through the eyes of Julia. She makes an effort to be acquainted; however, she is unable to present herself with his colleagues. Most interactions on screen take place without any verbal exchanges. The inner voices of women simply say that something else is happening, and it is not right. Monroe’s deals with women become the focal point and shadows cast here action. She managed to see metering when Julia swooped into the scene.
Let me start with Nathan Halpern’s score. The method creates an appropriate set of anticipation. The score enhances the intensity of her mental breakdown. As the tension increases, Halpern’s soundwaves stay. Then as the second act unfolds, the music accelerates into a faster pace. Julia experiences a perceived resolution in the change of rhythmic patterns. At certain points of the music, Halpern applies pressure to the manchetten.
The ending provided in Watcher is quite vexing. First three acts are able to provide a build up which eventually is quite opposite to the manner in which things conclude. Okuno bursts with creativity only towards the end, right at the point of peak. This does not ruin it completely, but rather comes extremely close. It was quite fascinating, and to some extent, it was very disheartening.
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