{"id":82166,"date":"2020-10-05T19:00:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T16:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/black-box-the-lie-film\/"},"modified":"2020-10-05T19:00:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T16:00:50","slug":"black-box-the-lie-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/black-box-the-lie-film\/","title":{"rendered":"#Black Box & The Lie \u2013 \/Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Black Box & The Lie \u2013 \/Film<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n

\"welcome<\/a><\/p>\n

With theatrical releases a bit up in the air, and plenty of options to pick from, the frightmasters at Blumhouse have decided to release four of their pending films on Amazon Prime Video, packaging them as\u00a0Welcome to the Blumhouse<\/em>. It\u2019s a novel idea, arriving just in time for Halloween season, with films grouped together. The first pair to arrive \u2013\u00a0Black Box<\/em> <\/strong>and\u00a0The Lie<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>may not be connected by story, but they do share similar elements \u2013 primarily how we perceive things, and how we let other things deceive us. But as far as launches go,\u00a0Welcome to the Blumhouse<\/em> is off to a shaky start.<\/p>\n

Think of\u00a0Black Box<\/em>\u00a0as\u00a0Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind<\/em> as a horror movie. It\u2019s a story of memory or lack thereof. But while\u00a0Eternal Sunshine<\/em> was all about erasing memories via sketchy science<\/a>,\u00a0Black Box<\/em> wants to bring them back.\u00a0Nolan (Mamoudou Athie<\/strong>) has survived a car crash that killed his wife and turned him into a single parent in the process. That\u2019s emotionally wrought as-is, but to make matters worse, the crash has wiped Nolan\u2019s memories out completely. He can\u2019t remember his past. He can\u2019t remember his wife. And even though his daughter, Ava (Amanda Christine<\/strong>) is still very much in his life, he can\u2019t remember very much about her, either.
\nWhen poor, understanding Ava tries to perform the secret, detailed handshake she and her father once shared, Nolan comes up blank. Later, she catches Nolan pulling out a pack of cigarettes and angrily reprimands him, insisting that he doesn\u2019t smoke. It\u2019s all very confusing for Nolan, and Athie does a wonderful job playing up how lost his character is. We can feel his anguish and his annoyance at not being able to remember who the hell he is. Young actress Christine is pretty good, too, although the screenplay, by director\u00a0Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour Jr<\/strong>. and Stephen Herman<\/strong>, unfortunately, turns her into one of those precious \u201cmovie kids\u201d \u2013 you know the ones. Kids who are constantly quoting trivia as if it counts as character development while also acting wise beyond her years.<\/p>\n

Desperate for a solution, Nolan turns to a kindly doctor, played by\u00a0Phylicia Rashad<\/strong>, who insists her secret science project has the ability to restore Nolan\u2019s lost memories. Nolan is skeptical, but with nothing left to lose, he agrees to be strapp<\/a>ed into the doc\u2019s machine and take a trip<\/a> down memory lane. Here is where\u00a0Osei-Kuffour Jr. gets to crank up the creepiness, presenting Nolan\u2019s memories as weird dream-like states where the man finds himself surrounded by faceless, voiceless people. To make matters worse, there\u2019s a twitchy, crawling, mysterious man lurking in these memories, his bones popping and clanking as he scutters towards Nolan like a deranged crab.<\/p>\n

As if that weren\u2019t weird enough, Nolan also starts noticing things in his medically-enhanced memories that seem slightly\u00a0off<\/em>. He finds himself in places he\u2019s sure he\u2019s never been. And he begins to suspect that maybe, just maybe, he wasn\u2019t the nice guy everyone says he is, even though his friend Gary, played with strength and empathy by\u00a0Tosin Morohunfola<\/strong>, insists otherwise.<\/p>\n

The creepy memories brought on by tampering with science angle is nifty in a 1950s sci-fi throwback sort of way, but while\u00a0Osei-Kuffour Jr. is able to conjure up more than a few disturbing moments \u2013 everything involving the mysterious twitchy man is\u00a0great<\/em>, aided by effective sound design full of rattling bones \u2013 Black Box<\/i> loses steam rather quickly. Part of the problem is that it gives its game<\/a> away far too soon, clueing us into what\u2019s going on here at a point where we\u2019re left adrift, unsure of what to even care about.<\/p>\n

\/Film Rating: 6 out of 10<\/strong>
\n\"the<\/a><\/p>\n

The Lie<\/em>, in sharp contrast, keeps its secrets close to the vest until the last possible second, and this, too, turns out to be a big mistake. Directed by\u00a0Veena Sud<\/strong>, this domestic thriller had its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2018, and then promptly dropped off the face of the earth before returning as part of the\u00a0Welcome to the Blumhouse<\/em> package.<\/p>\n

Cold and sterile, set in a winter setting that\u2019s appropriate chill-inducing,\u00a0The Lie<\/em>\u00a0ultimately feels like one long anecdote leading to a punchline that isn\u2019t going to win over anybody. Kayla (Joey King<\/strong>) seems like a nice enough young girl, and also your typical teen girl. She rolls her eyes at her mother Rebecca (Mireille Enos<\/strong>) and tends to gravitate more towards her cool dad (he\u2019s in a band and he wears a hat and sunglasses like the Blues Brothers, so you know he\u2019s cool), Jay, played by\u00a0Peter Sarsgaard<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

And then everything goes to hell.<\/p>\n

While Jay is driving Kayla to a ballet class, the two spot Brittany (Devery Jacobs<\/strong>), one of Kayla\u2019s friends, waiting at a bus stop in the snow. Kayla insists they give Brittany a ride, but almost immedia<\/a>tely, the two girls start bickering. After Brittany pleads for Jay to pull over so she can go to the bathroom in the woods on the side of the road, Jay complies \u2013 and Kayla goes after her. The two aren\u2019t gone very long before Jay hears a scream and comes running, finding a distressed Kayla proclaiming that Brittany fell off a bridge into racing, icy water below. Jay desperately searches the girl, even diving into the cold water, but comes up empty. And just when he\u2019s about to dial 9-1-1, Kayla makes a shocking confession: she\u00a0pushed<\/em> Brittany off the bridge.
\nJay is horrified, but immediately springs into protective dad mode, insisting the two flee the scene and inform Rebecca of what happened. Rebecca is understandably disturbed by all of this, and while she\u2019s hesitant to go along with the cover-up plan, she eventually gives in. Jay keeps insisting it was an accident, but Kayla\u2019s behavior begins to grow more and more unhinged, to the point where she\u2019s angrily insisting\u00a0<\/i>she killed her friend and it was no mistake.<\/p>\n

What are we to make of all of this? Is Kayla a budding young sociopath? Sud tacks on a prologue showing Kayla as a happy, grinning kid. Is the intention here to make us think that once, Kayla was a sweet, good person who then went rotten? And what of Kayla\u2019s parents? The idea that parents would cover-up their child\u2019s crime isn\u2019t outlandish or far-fetched, in theory. But Sud, realizing she has to keep the narrative pumping, starts introducing new complications, like when the police get involved, or when Brittany\u2019s dad (Cas Anvar<\/strong>) starts coming around asking questions.<\/p>\n

This is all building somewhere, I promise \u2013 and I\u2019m pretty sure you\u2019re not going to like it.\u00a0The Lie<\/em> probably could\u2019ve worked in a shorter form \u2013 a half-hour episode of a TV show, perhaps. But sitting through a feature-length film only to have the film pull the rug out at in the final few moments leaves a bad taste in your mouth. It\u2019s a long way to go for something so dumb.<\/p>\n

\/Film Rating: 4 out of 10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cool Posts From Around the Web:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n <\/div>\n

\n

For forums sites go to Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n

If you want to read more Like this articles, you can visit our Social Media category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“#Black Box & The Lie \u2013 \/Film” With theatrical releases a bit up in the air, and plenty of options to pick from, the frightmasters at Blumhouse have decided to release four of their pending films on Amazon Prime Video, packaging them as\u00a0Welcome to the Blumhouse. It\u2019s a novel idea, arriving just in time for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/welcome-to-the-blumhouse-review.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1568,2758,63829,9144,50324,1570,1406,7598,74399,52984],"class_list":["post-82166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-mediaa","tag-featured-stories-sidebar","tag-amazon","tag-black-box","tag-blumhouse","tag-ce","tag-features","tag-horror","tag-movie-reviews","tag-the-lie","tag-welcome-to-the-blumhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}