Hello beautiful people, how are you feeling today? are you ready for today's post?
Today I come to tell you about a suspense movie directed by Brad Anderson, based on the script by Alan B. McElroy, which is on the Netflix platform. With Sam Worthington, Lily Rabe, Stephen Tobolowsky, Adjoa Andoh, Lucy Capri, among others.
It's called “Fractured” and it's a family drama that goes through the trauma filter of an accident that, as we will see, determines everything. A psychological thriller that flirts with the idea of criminal conspiracies to construct a story about guilt, and especially about the inability of its protagonist Sam Worthington.
SYNOPSIS:
Ray Monroe is an alcoholic in the midst of rehabilitation, who drives behind the wheel of his car along with his wife Joanne and daughter Peri. They return from a disastrous Thanksgiving meal with her parents, and at a certain point on the way, the little girl needs to go to the bathroom and they park the car at a gas station, where a few minutes later the tragedy will occur, in a mistake of her parents, Peri is cornered by a menacing-looking dog and falls on her back in a space under construction. Ray tries to help Peri by throwing a stone at the dog but it scares her, he tries to grab her but it's too late and he falls into the construction too.
"Fractured" It's a haunting and captivating story that shows how untreated trauma can cause us to part with reality.
Director Brad Anderson spoke about what the final scene of the film means to him, and how it might apply to how many people live today:
"I wonder if he will wake up to the truth or not. That is the question at the end of the movie. Depending on how gloomy the point of view is about things, it can be said that he lives in self-deception, that for him it is better than living in reality”.
“We all do that up to a point in our lives, we do not want to face harsh realities we just want to ignore them and set them aside. Maybe there's a little bit of that going on here. It seems to me that the end is sad and tragic, but it is also moving”.
“He is just a boy who wants to be a good father. He wants to be a father and a husband who does the right thing. At the beginning of the movie, he is blinded and depressed. I don't think he understood. It is not a direct horror. It is a tragedy with connotations of horror”.
Like so many others in its genre, this film invites us to be the smart ones, to anticipate the resolution. That is, in fact, one of the most interesting games in this genre for the viewers, but I think the possibilities on this film are a bit slim. Sam Worthington's portrayal, which does a good job on its part, helps bring the suspense, and clues to uncover the true meaning of the plot.
I liked it, i's not a boring movie, but it wasn't excellent either, I think it had everything to be much better but it fell short.
I leave the trailer:
XOXO Li.
