{"id":605404,"date":"2024-01-20T12:18:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T09:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-soderbergh-tells-a-ghost-story-from-the-ghosts-pov\/"},"modified":"2024-01-20T12:18:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T09:18:03","slug":"watch-soderbergh-tells-a-ghost-story-from-the-ghosts-pov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-soderbergh-tells-a-ghost-story-from-the-ghosts-pov\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Soderbergh Tells a Ghost Story from the Ghost&#8217;s POV"},"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-6a2bf05b5cda1\" 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-6a2bf05b5cda1\" 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-soderbergh-tells-a-ghost-story-from-the-ghosts-pov\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Soderbergh_Tells_a_Ghost_Story_from_the_Ghosts_POV%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online Soderbergh Tells a Ghost Story from the Ghost&#8217;s POV&#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-soderbergh-tells-a-ghost-story-from-the-ghosts-pov\/#%E2%80%9CSoderbergh_Tells_a_Ghost_Story_from_the_Ghosts_POV%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Soderbergh Tells a Ghost Story from the Ghost&#8217;s POV&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Soderbergh_Tells_a_Ghost_Story_from_the_Ghosts_POV%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online Soderbergh Tells a Ghost Story from the Ghost&#8217;s POV&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CSoderbergh_Tells_a_Ghost_Story_from_the_Ghosts_POV%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Soderbergh Tells a Ghost Story from the Ghost&#8217;s POV&#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    \u201cPresence,\u201d a ghost story directed by Steven Soderbergh,\u00a0 is set entirely inside a lovely, renovated, 100-year-old suburban home, and before the characters even have a chance to move in, the place is already occupied. The camera literally seems to be <em>peering<\/em> at things, staring out the second-floor windows, then coming down the stairs to witness the arrival of a harried real-estate agent, then the family of four she\u2019s about to sell the house to. Darting from room to room in an unbroken wide-angle-lens shot, the camera gives us an impromptu tour of the house, letting us drink in the crisp mint-green walls, the vintage wood that lines everything (windows, doors, stairway, fireplace), the ancient smoke-glass mirror and polished oak-board floors and elegant sprawling kitchen. Yet this is no mere real-estate porn. For the entire rest of the movie, Soderbergh never abandons that bobbing, weaving voyeuristic camera\u2019s-eye-view. \u201cPresence\u201d might be the first ghost story in which the ghost turns out to be Brian De Palma\u2019s cinematographer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    I exaggerate, though not by much. In \u201cPresence,\u201d we\u2019re indeed taking in the entire movie from the point-of-view of the unseen spirit who has taken over the house. The spirit hovers and observes and always seems to know where the action is; nothing escapes its view. Yet in this case, the cinematographer is Soderbergh himself (shooting under the nom de plume Peter Andrews), and while he has shot many of his other films, going back to \u201cTraffic,\u201d you get the feeling that part of the fun of \u201cPresence\u201d for Soderbergh was literally, through the conceit of the ghost, finding a way to join in the action, to become part of it and fuse with it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Yet you might well ask: If the audience is seeing everything the ghost sees, then how can the ghost scare us? That\u2019s a very good question, and while \u201cPresence\u201d sinks us into an authentic family drama whose tentacles of intrigue are just dark enough to lure you in, it\u2019s not an especially frightening movie \u2014 at least, not by the jump-scare standards of the megaplex. The ghost in \u201cPresence\u201d likes to watch, but after a while it also does a few things, like lifting some books and carrying them over to a desk (its lofting of a paperback <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>ears to have been accomplished with special effects borrowed from a teenage magician), or crashing a shelf down from the top of a bedroom closet. These teasing moments encourage you to think that we might be in store for some jitters on the level of a good \u201cParanormal Activity\u201d sequel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    But no. The presence in \u201cPresence\u201d is mostly \u2014 merely \u2014 a <em>presence<\/em>, and for long stretches we almost forget it\u2019s there; we\u2019re just watching a shoestring movie shot with a rather nosy and flamboyant visual style. Soderberg stages each scene in a long unbroken take, ending each one of them with a cut to black. All very stylish and percussive. But if he had made a version of this movie <em>without<\/em> the ghost-as-camera-eye conceit, it would have been more or less the same movie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Paranormal activity aside, this family has enough ghosts of its own. The mother, Rebecca (Lucy Liu), is a harried control freak who runs everything and plays favorites with her kids (she\u2019s the one who decides, in the space of five minutes, to purchase the house, mostly because it\u2019s in the coveted district that will allow the teenage son she dotes on to attend North High School). She works at an oblique high-finance job in which she\u2019s committed some mysterious illegal action that could get them into hot water. Tyler (Eddy Maday), the son, is sweet on the surface but a mean-boy lout beneath, and his sister, Chloe (Calliana Liang), has a bad case of the teen-girl blues, though not just because she\u2019s reached that age. Her best friend, Nadia, died a few months before of a drug overdose. (She\u2019s the second girl in her school to have died that way.) Chloe is the one member of the family who can sense the ghost\u2019s presence, and Soderbergh doesn\u2019t waste much time revealing why that is. As it turns out, the ghost is there not to haunt but to protect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The thing about Soderbergh\u2019s \u201clittle films\u201d is that they\u2019re brash and inventive and superior to what so many directors could just toss off. But you get the feeling that the main reason they exist is so that Soderbergh can enjoy making them. That doesn\u2019t sound like a bad philosophy of moviemaking, yet he tends to toss these films together in a way that \u201cworks\u201d (they carry you along) but that leaves no imprint. It\u2019s as if he were crafting a puzzle by making up pieces on the spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    This one has a script by David Koepp, who also wrote Soderbergh\u2019s \u201cKimi\u201d (2022), which was a better movie. In \u201cPresence,\u201d the ghost idea is a foregrounded backdrop that yields neither major scares nor awesome revelations. Instead, the film locates its heart of darkness squarely in the human world, especially when Chloe gets drawn into a sexualized friendship with Tyler\u2019s buddy, played with deceptive masochistic creepiness by West Mullholland. He\u2019s a very good young actor \u2014 and, in fact, all the acting in \u201cPresence\u201d is ace. Calliana Liang rounds out Chloe\u2019s despair, Lucy Liu makes Rebecca a tightly wound troublemaker who keeps encouraging you to see what\u2019s underneath the scheming, and I especially liked Chris Sullivan, who plays the beleaguered dad like a straitlaced Louis CK, with a falling-apart-at-the-seams desperation that speaks to an age when families don\u2019t quite speak to each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cPresence,\u201d in its showy angst, winks at topicality, in the same way it winks at lot of other things (like things that go bump in the night, or the rise of teen mental illness, or serial killers). But it\u2019s just flirting with all of them. 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