what's going on everybody and welcome back to my channel movie files we are back with a brand
new movie review and today we're breaking down a film that i personally had circled on my calendar
because i heard so many great things about it at the film festivals earlier this year
we're talking about the new psychological thriller by the name of resurrection which is in theaters
limited theaters around the domestic market but will be coming to vod i believe shutter on
this friday august 5th got a chance to check it out and i'm here to let you all know should you
see it in theaters if it's available to you should you rent it and check it out on vod or should you
even give it a chance at all we'll be discussing that and so much more in today's spoiler free
review but before we get into the discussion if you all enjoy my thoughts to hear my thoughts
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what did you think about it let's talk about the performances the direction the story the mystery
the ending let's talk about it all in the comments below so just a little backstory of me in this
film and my journey to searching this movie out so like i said up top i have heard some things
about it at the film festivals earlier this year and i didn't watch a trailer didn't read synopsis
honestly the only thing that really sold me in this narrative rebecca hall now i'll talk about
her a little bit later but just if you all do not know i am a huge rebecca hall fan she made her
directorial debut what was it in 2020 or 2021 with passing on netflix definitely give that a watch
and just her career as an actress she is just fantastic and we have some really interesting
things to say about her in this review but she was really my anchor of really searching this film out
and of course hearing the good buzz so was it any good let's get into my thoughts here starting off
with the director who also wrote this film andrew seaman so this is my first time coming across
anything that he's worked on i believe this is his second directorial film fantastic i have nothing
but great things to say about andrew's work he did such and again he directed this film but he also
wrote the narrative and to me andrew did such a great job of creating this sense of dread and just
tension and suspense i was on the edge of my see that points i was very uncomfortable in a good way
as far as uncomfortability goes very uncomfortable in this narrative and he had a story to tell man
and this is one of those again i didn't watch a trailer i didn't read synopsis i went into this
pretty cold and i suggest you all do the same if you value my thoughts and opinions on things
go in this as cold as possible because it's an element of surprise with this film
we'll talk about the story and the themes a little bit later but there's this constant
shift of we thought it was one thing and then it becomes something else in a good way you think the
story is headed this way but then it turns into something else in a good way andrew did such a
great job of directing this film not knowing what to expect ness andrew did a great job of directing
but also this narrative which we'll talk about the story without giving too much away fantastic job
performance wise i want to start off with my supporting cast members grace kaufman who plays
abby who plays the 8 or 17 year old turning 18 in this film she's the daughter of rebecca hall
uh margaret's character again her name's abby she's going off to school pretty soon
and i thought that abby's character was really well put together in a narrative i wish we would
have gotten a little bit more of the relationship which i'll talk about a little bit later but
overall i thought abby again a 17 year old who has a pretty good relationship with her mom when you
first meet her but things kind of turn on its head as the narrative as the secrets as her mother is
kind of going down this path of trauma and kind of diving deep into her psyche and we're seeing this
kind of once close relationship grow further and further apart i thought abby was great in the film
tim roth who i've been a fan of since seeing him in the 90s with pulp fiction and just other
narratives and films and shows he's a fantastic actor and i'm telling you all right now tim roth
as david moore i believe was his character name who is a character who i'll just say
he knows margaret rebecca hall's character he knows her past and they have a very
interesting very toxic past and i'll just kind of leave it at that but tim roth he's menacing he is
manipulative he is someone you just want to punch in the face because his performance is just that
damn good he is fantastic but i want to take the time to talk about her i mentioned how she's one
of my favorites she did a great job directing passing she's been great in all the films and
shows i've seen her in that trend continues in this movie rebecca hall as our main character
margaret oh my goodness this has to be one of the best performances of 2022 and i stand by that i
don't i don't think it's gonna unfortunately make the oscar-worthy type of conversation
because it's just kind of that low budget type of feels going on vod it came out earlier as far as
film festivals one can be hopeful but if she doesn't get the recognition she's gonna get as far
as deserving you know oscar buzz i'm gonna give it to her here on my platform what a believable
performance what an endearing performance what a exhausting performance because she's just giving
you everything again without giving too much away margaret when you first meet her in the film
she is a boss she's leading her company she seems to be a great mom she's to have a good head on her
shoulder she seems to come from this position of like i was once maybe not the person i am now but
i am proud of who i am now until she comes across tim ross character who she knows from the past and
she just spirals down this path and we just dive deeper and deeper into her psychos and dive deeper
into her relationship with different characters but in particular david's character played by tim
roth and again from seeing this once powerful you know strong individual independent mother
leading her company doing great things to just seeing her just descend into this madness and
what's real what's fake can we believe her is she telling the truth there's just so many levels to
this character and so many great moments there's a six minute monologue that she gives later in the
movie with just describing her past or someone she's trying to help in her current situation
oh my goodness rebecca hall yet again proves to me that she's one of the best working actors in
hollywood period you just see this film based on her performance by itself she's
fantastic transitioning to some of the themes and the story here again this is one of those
go in as blind as possible because you're going to end up on the other side being very
pleasantly surprised in a very good way but there's a narrative here in regards to what
it looks like to be in a toxic relationship what it looks like when you allow your trauma
to define you and to kind of when you suppress trauma and when you face your
trauma what it does to a person right and it is a lot of that going on in this film
and again just the tone that's going on here this constant question when you watch this film
is this real is this fake did this really take place can we believe our main character and
when you see the film you know i'm talking about there's so much twists and turns and being in her
psyches and again this is a psychological thriller to the finance degree because again you're diving
deep into the cycles of this character and the film does such a great job of doing so
and it's constantly evolving as the narratives the three-act structure i thought you know you
get a little bit of a drama we get into the mystery we dive into the psychological thrilling
elements and then when you get to the third act it becomes a horror film and a body horror and a
very uncomfortable sense of the word so again i thought the story was strong the themes were there
the tone was consistent and there's a lot of great things to say about this film but i do have some
criticisms a couple of these that kind of come to mind it's it's less than two hours i never
feel like it was a slog fest it didn't feel like i was you know bored at any points in the film i was
very engaged but there is a point in the second half of the film uh that kind of shifts into this
relationship where david and margaret are having a conversation for the first time in a long time
uh in a diner setting and he refers to these things as kindness these kind of acts that
she gives him something that they used to do in their relationship and we get kind of like this
little montage session of her doing these gifts of kindness and it becomes a little bit it slows down
the momentum for me personally and another thing that kind of comes to mind there are different
relationships that margaret goes through in this film one involving a romance at work one involving
an internet work in her relationship and then the relationship with her daughter i thought the film
gave me enough but i wanted to be fleshed out a little bit more in particularly the relationship
between margaret and her daughter i wish that we would have gotten a little bit more time to really
understand their relationship and how we once went from this which seemed to be a great relationship
to seeing how it kind of became what it becomes in this film but i wish you would have spent a little
more time on that shift of daughter no longer trusting her mother who's willing to do anything
to protect her so i wish we would have got a little bit more of that relationship and also the
character i mentioned her relationship with the romance at work and the intern i just wish that
it was a little bit more satisfying payoff with those characters but outside of that before i give
you all my overall thoughts and give you my score and if you should watch this film if you haven't
already give the video a thumbs up share the video leave your thoughts in the comments and of course
subscribe to the channel overall my thoughts on this film i have nothing but really great things
to say about it it is a suspenseful thrill ride to the highest degree rebecca hogg is a fantastic
performance the supporting cast does their thing the director and the writer here does a fantastic
job of just leading you on this journey of again dread tension-filled moments suspense a horror
moment towards the end and just a really overall satisfying film it does have some shortcomings but
overall i highly recommend you all give it a watch whether it's in your local theater if you have it
in your uh area check out i believe it will be on shutter i know we'll be coming to vod on the 5th
of august but i believe it's going to be a shutter exclusive but give it a watch and when you do let
me know your thoughts about it i'm going to give resurrection a four out of five and again just
based on rebecca hall's performance it's worth you watching and when you do let me know your
pros your cons your thoughts your theories what was real what was fake how did you feel about the
ending let's talk about it in the comments below if you stuck around to this point in the video
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