g-wensley
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Never at any time did I feel frightened watching 'Eden Lake', what it did imbue in me was a swirl of emotions that led me on a roller coaster ride of intense feelings, up and down and around with anger and despair, and hopelessness.
If you allow it, this film will caress you at the beginning, and slowly begin to squeeze you until it has you gripped in raw malice with its visceral and shocking ending.
Yes, there are some implausible actions from the lead male actor's character (Fassbender), which ultimately opens the door to what befalls him and his girlfriend (Reilly), but for the viewer there are some recognitions to be had when we first come across the teenagers and their display of 'feral' and disrespectful behaviour. We have all seen it in teenagers, many of whom society laughingly and wrongly calls 'children'. It is these recognitions that makes the movie so disturbing for the audience, for we may know people like these teens, and we could accidentally and tragically meet them on the way home from some where? Such as the awful and tragic 'real-life' situation on this line of thought that was met with by Sophie Lancaster and Robert Maltby, for whose meeting with 'feral' youths as depicted in this movie may have provided the story?
This film will not leave you feeling good, even though it is a good movie. Discretion is advised on first viewing.
If you allow it, this film will caress you at the beginning, and slowly begin to squeeze you until it has you gripped in raw malice with its visceral and shocking ending.
Yes, there are some implausible actions from the lead male actor's character (Fassbender), which ultimately opens the door to what befalls him and his girlfriend (Reilly), but for the viewer there are some recognitions to be had when we first come across the teenagers and their display of 'feral' and disrespectful behaviour. We have all seen it in teenagers, many of whom society laughingly and wrongly calls 'children'. It is these recognitions that makes the movie so disturbing for the audience, for we may know people like these teens, and we could accidentally and tragically meet them on the way home from some where? Such as the awful and tragic 'real-life' situation on this line of thought that was met with by Sophie Lancaster and Robert Maltby, for whose meeting with 'feral' youths as depicted in this movie may have provided the story?
This film will not leave you feeling good, even though it is a good movie. Discretion is advised on first viewing.