the atmosphere created by the glass house is definitely the reason why i watched this not once
but twice now i will say i actually accidentally watched it the second time i had completely
forgotten i'd seen it i didn't recognize the description but when i started watching it
after about 10 minutes i realized it was the film that i'd previously seen but i remembered
liking it so much that i continued watching it and i liked it the second time around maybe
maybe even a little bit more the second time round i i think was very well developed the
atmosphere is brilliant and it is very very eerie so this was released in 2001
directed by daniel saccheim written by wesley strick and the description from imdb sums it up
really well without giving any spoilers i'm not going to spoil anything
for this says an orphaned teenager is taken in by a malibu couple but discovers they aren't
the caring friends they seem to be now i will say this is a little bit confusing the role that this
couple plays in their lives it took me a couple of minutes to kind of get my head around who they
were and how they would have known certain things but once i kind of got to grips with that um
you know it's pretty enjoyable so ruby is i think she's about 14 or 15
and her parents were killed in a car accident so she and her younger brother
rhett who is about i think maybe 12 have to move in with this couple who
used to be their neighbors terence and aaron glass the glass family they used to be their
neighbors in malibu it for some reason i found that that just wasn't very clear and i'm still
the only that's the only kind of thing about this that i think is quite poor i just don't
feel like they would have been the next of kin um so for me that kind of seemed like a bad choice
but it's important that they were far away because ruby has to move schools and um you know that that
kind of plays a part of the narrative of her being at a new school looking at her surroundings in a
different way i get it while she's there it seems like terence and erin are treating them very well
they have a very very wealthy lifestyle one's a doctor they buy the children loads of toys and new
clothes and things trying to make them feel like they fit in but oddly the children have to share a
room and this i think was very well directed they are giving them a house tour and they get to see
the home gym and the home entertainment room and then we see their bedroom and they're sharing
a room a small room with two single beds and straight away you think well hang on that why
would they do that why would they have all of these different rooms that make the kids share
do they actually care about them and that's kind of when i think the first seed is planted to make
you doubt the validity of the caring nature of the glass family of the glass couple if you like and
both we as the viewer and ruby begin to question
their true intent and whether or not they actually have their best interests at heart
now it's worth noting that we find out very early on that ruby and rhett have been left a
pretty sizable inheritance from their dead parents which obviously they will get when they grow up
could that be the reason why the glass family agreed to take them in the first place
it's quite weird because the glass family seemed to have quite a bit of money but
maybe they have some financial problems i am not going to say whether or not that's true
there could be other motivations behind their actions but what i will say is that things become
confusing before they become clear in a good way things begin to mess with your mind more and the
certain actions of terence and erin glass do make you question things before you get answers and
then like that because it gets more and more eerie and you begin to trust it less and you're never
quite sure which direction is going to take i love something i really loved is that as soon as ruby
thought that there was a problem she went to see the family's lawyer most of their films
this teenage girl would try and take it upon herself to solve this problem she went straight
to the lawyer she did the sensible genuine thing that somebody would actually do and i do think
that the actions of the characters particularly ruby because most of it's from her perspective
are are genuine they're believable the characters are well-rounded i believe their actions
i believe their motivations the only thing i'm also questioning is how would terence and
aaron glass have known about this trust fund this inheritance there are some things in this i think
are not as clear as they could be but for the most part i think it's very well developed i think
the suspense is brilliant it is eerie it is creepy it's impossible to know who to trust as
as it gets intense and as we begin to get answers it doesn't get easier it gets more
gripping because certain characters begin to fight back and that makes it even more challenging for
well ruby and they of course rat once he begins to listen to his sister
so even once we get answers it doesn't slow down it just gets darker and more suspenseful as i said
i watched it once i accidentally started watching it twice but i intentionally kept watching it
and even with the second viewing i still loved it i started to remember what had happened
but i still felt surprised i still felt captivated
brilliantly shocked very atmospheric very well acted with the things that i've pointed
out not perfect but without question one that i am very very happy to recommend