Review of Stoker (2013) by Ole J — 01 Sep 2014

Ever since seeing this guy in the Prison Break series I thought he was a bit strange, but also cool and good in the part, but that he wrote stories and manuscripts, well I did not know that. It is the writer behind this story Wentworth Miller I am talking about, and he did a really nice job in writing a strange, dark, twisted and mysterious piece.

The strangeness of this films slowly reveals itself, it is slow paced, but that just makes it more strange, you keep thinking I have to watch carefully to know what is going on and what is happening, that must be why it is moving in this pace, but it is mostly to have the viewer see all the small details, the twist and turns, the imagery and the small sounds that all plays wonderfully well together.

Early on you are told that she can hear small sounds, things that are far away and notice stuff that cripple and crawl. She is strange in nature, but the whole world around her seem a bit strange. It is this strangeness that in a way keeps you watching and fascinated me at least, together with the very nice filming, crooked shots, cut of parts and closeups of feet and staircases etc.

The acting is good and all fits well in their roles, we only have to do with a handful of people that are in the film for more then 5 minutes, but they all fit in and do their part.

I liked it for a lot of reasons, but the main one being the focus on details and the overall strangeness :).