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<blockquote data-quote="Spells &amp; Karma" data-source="post: 445554" data-attributes="member: 23"><p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-size: 22px">Retreat</span></strong> (2011)</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><img src="https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fm.media-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FM%2FMV5BMTc2ODY0NTk3Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMDk3MjQ4Ng%40%40._V1_.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=68d62dc59106463b58944b3b237ea6382b80201559ea349338beaa3dc16f4bfe&ipo=images" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 899px" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p><p></p><p>Chosen because it was on ad-free iPlayer, had a brisk running time and looked suitably dark. It's dark in every sense, actually. The cinematography leans heavily into the black</p><p></p><p>While nothing suggests an adaption, there is something very play-like about this. The cast is tiny, with a main cast of three and another one in a supporting role (there's a fifth credit for someone playing the wife of the supporting character, but I don't remember seeing her, so she may have been a disembodied voice on a CB). The locations are also very limited - the very premise on which this hinges - and despite some dramatic and moody location work, we also spend a lot of time locked into a small house. For that reason, it would adapt well to the stage.</p><p></p><p>Because of its deliberate limitations, the performances carry a lot of the story, and the news is good there. Going in, I only knew Jamie Bell and Cillian Murphy, but this was enough to promise me the level of of intensity that was delivered in abundance. This isn't an action film or a horror or a mystery (though there are flashes of all three). First and foremost it is an atmospheric drama, and on that level it convinces entirely.</p><p></p><p>These days, the paranoid fear and extreme measures to avoid becoming contaminated in the wake of an outbreak of an extreme killer virus can only take one back to 2020 and Covid-19. Indeed, this was so similar I thought as I watched it must have been filmed in the immediate wake of the pandemic, so I was a little surprised to see just how long ago it was filmed, and how prescient, therefore, the story was.</p><p></p><p>In the best possible way, it's a bleak film, and the ending lives up to this. There is no happy Hollywood ending, and it's all the better for it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Spells & Karma, post: 445554, member: 23"] [CENTER][B][SIZE=6]Retreat[/SIZE][/B] (2011) [IMG width="899px"]https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fm.media-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FM%2FMV5BMTc2ODY0NTk3Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMDk3MjQ4Ng%40%40._V1_.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=68d62dc59106463b58944b3b237ea6382b80201559ea349338beaa3dc16f4bfe&ipo=images[/IMG] [/CENTER] Chosen because it was on ad-free iPlayer, had a brisk running time and looked suitably dark. It's dark in every sense, actually. The cinematography leans heavily into the black While nothing suggests an adaption, there is something very play-like about this. The cast is tiny, with a main cast of three and another one in a supporting role (there's a fifth credit for someone playing the wife of the supporting character, but I don't remember seeing her, so she may have been a disembodied voice on a CB). The locations are also very limited - the very premise on which this hinges - and despite some dramatic and moody location work, we also spend a lot of time locked into a small house. For that reason, it would adapt well to the stage. Because of its deliberate limitations, the performances carry a lot of the story, and the news is good there. Going in, I only knew Jamie Bell and Cillian Murphy, but this was enough to promise me the level of of intensity that was delivered in abundance. This isn't an action film or a horror or a mystery (though there are flashes of all three). First and foremost it is an atmospheric drama, and on that level it convinces entirely. These days, the paranoid fear and extreme measures to avoid becoming contaminated in the wake of an outbreak of an extreme killer virus can only take one back to 2020 and Covid-19. Indeed, this was so similar I thought as I watched it must have been filmed in the immediate wake of the pandemic, so I was a little surprised to see just how long ago it was filmed, and how prescient, therefore, the story was. In the best possible way, it's a bleak film, and the ending lives up to this. There is no happy Hollywood ending, and it's all the better for it. [/QUOTE]
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