It Follows is a horror film about a curse that is passed on from person to person however, the only way to pass the curse on is by sleeping with another person. The catch is that if the person yo pass the curse on gets killed by it, it will start to follow you again. The movie follows the story of a young teen named Jay who sleeps with her new boyfriend and gets the curse. Throughout the movie she must evade the curse or try to pass it along to someone else. During the movie she is introduced to a new world of horror and isolation as she is the only one that can see what is following her and is constantly looking around for someone coming her way. Subjectively I thought that the movie was very entertaining to watch and the complexity of the so called curse made for an hour of drama and horror. Although the story was invigorating it was sometimes difficult to empathize with the characters because of the lack of background on them which caused the film to lose out on the fear that a character the audience loved could die at any moment. However objectively I believe that the production could have been better and some of the scenes were drawn out and hard to follow but overall the movie was well made and used mise en scene to enhance the terror the audience felt. For example the movie seems to shift through time, showing modern phones and cars but old features like old TVs and house designs. Overall the movie had a great story but the character development was mediocre at best. I would rate this film subjectively Good and objectively Bad
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I disagree that this movie was subjectively good. I thought the movie was slow at parts and the overall tone wasn't scary or frightening because the "it" that was following Jay was slow moving and not difficult to escape. I also thought it took way too long for the characters to figure out a solution to the problem. It wouldn't have been difficult at all for them to figure out sleeping with a prostitute would be the best solution to rid the "it". I got bored watching the movie and barely made it through to the end. I do agree that objectively the movie was bad. There isn't really any character development outside the main character, which even there we don't get much information about her. The only development made on Jay is her increasing anxiety as "it" continues to follow her and she escapes its grasps multiple times. Also, the way it was filmed didn't allow for many jumpscares because of how slowly the monster thing moved. Every single time there wasn't any suspense created because the audience could see "it" in the background slowly approaching due to the shot angle that was commonly being used that had a deep depth so that the monster could be seen approaching. The non-diegetic also made it obvious when the monster would be coming as the intensity increased. The increase in intensity was too slow to create good suspense and scare the viewer.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your objective rating, however I disagree with your subjective rating. I personally found the movie very difficult to enjoy. I feel like the backstory was very rushed, and that led to a lack of understanding of the movie throughout its entirety. I didn't even understand the curse until close to the end, and by then I had spent so much time trying to derive it that I missed crucial parts of the movie. The random characters being the followers made no sense to me, for example the 10-foot tall man would suddenly be a small child seconds later. That was never explained, and only left me and my friends laughing hysterically at the aspect of randomness in the movie. It also seemed that rape had too much of a place in the movie, because the curse was sexually transmitted and people would find a way to get rid of it regardless of morals. In one scene, a man knocks a girl out with chloroform in an attempt to pass it on. That part did nothing but freak me out. I agree with your point about the lack of backstories to the characters, and I think it was the lacking in the objective department that led to my dislike of the movie subjectively.
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