Les Chambres rouges [Red Rooms] (Pascal Plante, 2023)
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2024 7:42 pm
Red Rooms was a pleasant surprise, in how tense everything is but gives way to its fascinating twists, a word I am loathe to use usually, but I found there to be some twists within itself that push the very fabric of cliches you find in these types of movies into a different light. Immediately questioning everyone and everything, and being replenished by maybe not the direct answer but the feelings behind the truth, behind the blank faces, and ultimately confronting an evil itself that is as clearly corrosive to those closest to this particular crime.
It’s also a kind of warning about human nature and how it all becomes monopolized and manipulated. By the media, by the ignorant masses of public given to whatever injustice they perceive. This is embodied in the main character, at least on the surface. Her own motivations do not read clear, even through to it’s perhaps too tidy of an ending but is at least in complete harmony with the choices Juliette Garièpe brings to the role to Kelly-Anne. Much credit to Pascal Plante for assembling this puzzle in a way that exudes our worst instinct about humanity, while keeping its heart beating true to what is still noble about it.
It’s also a kind of warning about human nature and how it all becomes monopolized and manipulated. By the media, by the ignorant masses of public given to whatever injustice they perceive. This is embodied in the main character, at least on the surface. Her own motivations do not read clear, even through to it’s perhaps too tidy of an ending but is at least in complete harmony with the choices Juliette Garièpe brings to the role to Kelly-Anne. Much credit to Pascal Plante for assembling this puzzle in a way that exudes our worst instinct about humanity, while keeping its heart beating true to what is still noble about it.