{"id":565011,"date":"2023-03-17T14:02:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T11:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-monolith-review-gloomy-podcast-thriller-muffles-its-message\/"},"modified":"2023-03-17T14:02:40","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T11:02:40","slug":"watch-monolith-review-gloomy-podcast-thriller-muffles-its-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-monolith-review-gloomy-podcast-thriller-muffles-its-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Monolith&#8217; Review: Gloomy Podcast Thriller Muffles Its Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a26bb4d32a65\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a26bb4d32a65\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-monolith-review-gloomy-podcast-thriller-muffles-its-message\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Monolith_Review_Gloomy_Podcast_Thriller_Muffles_Its_Message%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Monolith&#8217; Review: Gloomy Podcast Thriller Muffles Its Message&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-monolith-review-gloomy-podcast-thriller-muffles-its-message\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Monolith_Review_Gloomy_Podcast_Thriller_Muffles_Its_Message%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Monolith&#8217; Review: Gloomy Podcast Thriller Muffles Its Message&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Monolith_Review_Gloomy_Podcast_Thriller_Muffles_Its_Message%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Monolith&#8217; Review: Gloomy Podcast Thriller Muffles Its Message&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Monolith_Review_Gloomy_Podcast_Thriller_Muffles_Its_Message%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Monolith&#8217; Review: Gloomy Podcast Thriller Muffles Its Message&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    There\u2019s a good movie to be made about podcasts that traffic in unsolved mysteries where hosts rank cliffhangers and that hiccuping dramatic cadence over journalism. For half of its running time, the Australian thriller \u201cMonolith\u201d seems like it might be that movie. But the film, a debut feature from director Matt Vesely and screenwriter Lucy Campbell, falls sway to the clickbait tropes it intends to send up: red herrings, a tone of suffocating gloom and a desperation to keep the audience on the hook.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The sole actor on screen is Lily Sullivan, playing an unnamed Interviewer and audio ne\u2019er do well who has recently fallen into disgrace over a j\u2019accuse gone wrong. (Her inbox is bricked up with outraged emails.) Doxxed out of her home, she sets up a recording studio in her parents\u2019 modernist mansion \u2014 the type with eerie floor-to-ceiling windows and so much nothingness outside that she may as well be hiding out on Mars. Her folks are abroad, but her flock is online, if she can come up with a hit show that will once again shower her in five-star ratings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The mystery she selects involves a maid named Floramae (voiced by Ling Cooper Tang) who claims she once received, and lost, a bizarre black brick. She can\u2019t explain how she got it and she can\u2019t explain what it did. But the block \u2014 or rather, the stealing of the block by her employers \u2014 upended her life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    It doesn\u2019t sound like much of a story. Yet Campbell\u2019s screenplay is designed so that we, and Sullivan\u2019s character, deduce the shape of it together, one interview at a time. These early questioning scenes have a clarity of purpose. Vesely zooms the camera into Sullivan\u2019s pores to scrutinize her as she scrutinizes callers who claim that they, too, possess one of these mesmerizing rocks. The dialogue is crisp and Sullivan\u2019s face so reactive that you can see the moment that a conversation has turned against her. It\u2019s clear she doesn\u2019t believe them; meanwhile, we catch on that we shouldn\u2019t believe her. \u201cI don\u2019t want other people to twist your words,\u201d she assures Floramae, only to im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely break out her editing software so she can twist them herself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    If the film had continued in this direction, it would have been a decent exercise in isolation. Shot in those cool gray tones that mean to imply sophistication, the visuals suffocate us inside the house in a way that suits the story, even if we do begin to feel like the pet turtle seen imprisoned in a fetid tank. (The ka-bump, ka-bump beat of a muffled pulse on the sound mix is a nice touch, as is Benjamin Speed\u2019s muttering score.) Sullivan is, for a while, so captive to her microphone that I began to place bets on whether she\u2019d stand; later, when she steps out for a smoke, the sight of fresh oxygen \u2014 even on screen \u2014 makes you want to gasp for breath.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In this airless round-the-clock work life (which, post-2020, the filmmakers are gambling the audience can relate to), it seems inevitable that the Interviewer is susceptible to going stir-crazy. But the way she does (and the ideas and imagery Vesely uses to get her there) are the half-baked nonsense of someone who snatched the microphone for a toast and forgot what they meant to say. The interesting questions raised earlier on evaporate; in their place are reveals that strain credulity and a climax could be sl<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed on a dozen other flicks. When in doubt, bleat \u201cClass consciousness!\u201d and hope that defenders will hector people into agreeing that\u2019s important. \u201cAll you have to do is listen,\u201d Sullivan intones. 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