The camera never once leaves Lisa’s side, which helps sell the situation as we’re feeling all of the captive’s confusion and panic. But looks can be deceiving, and although that skepticism was present, it’s a testament to the film’s tension that I was able to suspend disbelief enough to lose myself in its narrative. Not to sell Adam short, but he just didn’t seem capable of building the kind of contraption that was used to imprison our desperate heroine. The grandiosity of its design, when you stop to think about it, would require not only an unfathomable amount of funds, but also might take a whole construction and science team to build. In hindsight, the absurdity of this deadly maze Lisa finds herself in should take even the most forgiving moviegoer out of the movie.
To make matters worse, a door opens inside of the cube that leads to a secret passageway the size of a tunnel, one that only leads to more tunnel-sized passageways and traps inspired by a Sean Connery-era James Bond villain. There’s now a metallic bracelet around her wrist with a timer on it, the world’s most ominous watch, but we have no idea what that timer is counting down towards. She’s wearing what resembles the quantum outfits the Avengers wore when they traveled through time in ‘Endgame’.
Subscribe to The Hollywood Insider’s YouTube Channel, by clicking here.Īfter her scuffle with Adam, Lisa wakes up inside what ironically looks like a cube. Related article: MUST WATCH – The Hollywood Insider’s CEO Pritan Ambroase’s Love Letter to Black Lives Matter – VIDEO It doesn’t take long after Adam picks Lisa up that his true nature is revealed, and Lisa, who apparently hasn’t watched too many scary movies herself, is eventually knocked unconscious and is at the mercy of this charming Ted Bundy wannabe.
Adam sounds warm and supportive, yet carries with him a sinister undertone that can’t help but to make your hair stand on end. And it’s a surprisingly effective disguise as well, as Franzen’s Adam sounds exactly how I’d imagine the devil does whenever he’s trying to seduce a potential advocate.
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Adam, played by Peter Franzen, turns out to be a serial killer disguised as a good Samaritan. What transpires afterward goes exactly how you’d expect.
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Except when she hears the motor of a car approaching to grant her death wish, Lisa’s survival instincts kick in like a drug, forcing our protagonist to stand back up on her two feet and move out of the way of the moving car.Īfter a brief conversation, the driver of this desired murder weapon, Adam, offers Lisa a long ride back to town that she reluctantly accepts. Grieving the death of her daughter, Lisa lies in the middle of an empty bleak road playing dead, waiting for some negligent driver to sweep her off her feet into the afterlife. At the center of this ominous mood, as if she’s the source of it all, is Gaia Weiss’s Lisa. Already, the film gives the impression that something horrible has taken place long before the opening credits introduce the movie’s cast. The atmosphere is already eerie, with a gray malnourished sky and an unrelenting chill you can almost feel blowing past you through the screen. ‘Meander’ maintains its facade by setting the mood the way your typical horror movie does. ‘Meander’ is Not Your Typical Horror Movie…It Just Pretends To Be Thanks to an intimate story, and enough self-awareness to avoid all the typical trappings of a ‘Saw’ cliché, ‘Meander’ manages to be its own thing while taking creative risks that pay off in the end. Related article: A Tribute to Cannes Film Festival: A Celebration of Cinema, Glamour, and Humanity | Statement From The Hollywood Insider’s CEO Pritan Ambroaseīut fortunately, Turi takes his film in enough new directions for ‘Meander’ to finally find itself, discovering that its true identity couldn’t be any more different than the horror films it’s partly inspired by.