Review of Censor (2021) by Jluis_001 — 26 Jun 2021

Censor is somewhat ironic.

Its plot talks about graphic violence and exposes it at times since its protagonist works as a video censor. Mostly of cheap horror movies.

But Censor doesn't really use that resource for its real plot. ThatCensor is somewhat ironic.

Its plot talks about graphic violence and exposes it at times since its protagonist works as a video censor. Mostly of cheap horror movies.

But Censor doesn't really use that resource for its real plot.

That violence is only an accessory, because the real plot focuses on the trauma and depression of the lead character due to the loss of her younger sister when they were just little girls.

So far everything looks normal. The problems begin when she thinks she sees her sister in one of these horror movies, and then becomes obsessed with finding the information from the creators that would lead her to her ''sister''.

However, what happens next seems too hasty, because at that point, the protagonist looks completely sane.

She does her work, she talks to her co-workers normally, and everything goes smoothly.

It's evident that she lives a very lonely life, and that she has severe depression, but after believing that she saw her sister in one of those movies, the character gets completely lost, and her mental state begins to deteriorate brutally fast.

The problem here is not that this is not credible, but that the narrative never builds that breakdown convincingly, because when the climax has arrived, you understand that she has already gone completely crazy, but the film never gives you plausible reasons to understand why the hell that happened.

So her final act seemed completely empty to me, and the whole experience was remarkably hollow.