Unsane (2018)
Country: US
Technical: col/1.56:1 98m
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Claire Foy, Joshua Leonard, Jay Pharoah, Juno Temple
Synopsis:
A bank employee, who has moved to a new job in Pennsylvania in order to evade a stalker, submits to exploratory talks with a psychiatrist and finds herself held against her will in the parent institution. Her hysteria mounts, and her confinement is extended, when her stalker appears as one of the nursing staff.
Review:
As with Contagion and Side Effects, Soderbergh shows himself particularly drawn by the vicissitudes of the American health system, in the present case namely the device used by institutions of getting patients to unwittingly commit themselves by signing paperwork, meaning their health insurance kicks in and the business collects. Hanging a My-Name-Is-Julia-Ross thriller onto this works pretty well until, that is, the stalker turns from your average 'creepy fantasist' into 'efficient psycho killer'. Added into the mix and its effectiveness is the fact that Foy's character is not particularly sympathetic to begin with; the whole thing is shot on a cell phone - appropriately enough, given the plot - continuing the director's preoccupation with technology.
Country: US
Technical: col/1.56:1 98m
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Claire Foy, Joshua Leonard, Jay Pharoah, Juno Temple
Synopsis:
A bank employee, who has moved to a new job in Pennsylvania in order to evade a stalker, submits to exploratory talks with a psychiatrist and finds herself held against her will in the parent institution. Her hysteria mounts, and her confinement is extended, when her stalker appears as one of the nursing staff.
Review:
As with Contagion and Side Effects, Soderbergh shows himself particularly drawn by the vicissitudes of the American health system, in the present case namely the device used by institutions of getting patients to unwittingly commit themselves by signing paperwork, meaning their health insurance kicks in and the business collects. Hanging a My-Name-Is-Julia-Ross thriller onto this works pretty well until, that is, the stalker turns from your average 'creepy fantasist' into 'efficient psycho killer'. Added into the mix and its effectiveness is the fact that Foy's character is not particularly sympathetic to begin with; the whole thing is shot on a cell phone - appropriately enough, given the plot - continuing the director's preoccupation with technology.
Country: US
Technical: col/1.56:1 98m
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Claire Foy, Joshua Leonard, Jay Pharoah, Juno Temple
Synopsis:
A bank employee, who has moved to a new job in Pennsylvania in order to evade a stalker, submits to exploratory talks with a psychiatrist and finds herself held against her will in the parent institution. Her hysteria mounts, and her confinement is extended, when her stalker appears as one of the nursing staff.
Review:
As with Contagion and Side Effects, Soderbergh shows himself particularly drawn by the vicissitudes of the American health system, in the present case namely the device used by institutions of getting patients to unwittingly commit themselves by signing paperwork, meaning their health insurance kicks in and the business collects. Hanging a My-Name-Is-Julia-Ross thriller onto this works pretty well until, that is, the stalker turns from your average 'creepy fantasist' into 'efficient psycho killer'. Added into the mix and its effectiveness is the fact that Foy's character is not particularly sympathetic to begin with; the whole thing is shot on a cell phone - appropriately enough, given the plot - continuing the director's preoccupation with technology.