....and your time.
Svader's "Wake Me Up" synopsis captures it in a nutshell and is to the point.
It's not a terrible or horrible movie. But it's slow and it doesn't build up. The actors certainly are able to convey the emotional torture of their characters. There is tension between the characters, mostly between the main character played by Helene Joy and her stepson. He's so melancholy. There must have been someting going on between them at some point, but I'll never know because we couldn't take it any longer and stopped watching 20-30 minutes in. This is a rarity for me. Really, the only thing going for it is the cinematography. The script, what script?, there's hardly any dialogue. It's one thing to be able to convey emotion without speaking, but to do it for literally 90% of the movie, or at least the part of the movie we stuck with. I feel bad writing this review. I can't fault the actors. I don't want to fault the writer and director. My breaking point was the music. It was just so melancholy and full of dread. Well, the real breaking point was the music AND the mumbling of an unknown woman's voice as the scene changes from the main female character to that of the stepson's girlfriend, who in the description of the movie, is the one she becomes obsessed with, yet it seems she's more concerned with the 30 something year old stepson. I really wish I could say something more positive about the movie.
Plot summary
When Anne's stepson returns home with a beautiful woman, she develops an obsession with the stranger whom she fears could destroy the privileged life she has built.
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March 22, 2022 at 08:45 AM
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Not bad at all but a small end!
The movie is not bad at all. It just needed a longer ending. Why some filmmakers really don't understand? Such a film should be at least two and a half hours long. See the films of the history of Japanese cinema.
What did you tell her?
Anne (Helene Joy) is the title character. Her husband was mysteriously killed in a hit and run accident. She will soon be married to David (Anthony Lemke). Her husband had money and the estate is run my his sister. Anne has a daughter and a step-son nine years he junior. Anne acts as nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rockers.
We get it and then again at about an hour and thirty minutes into the film if we haven't figured it out by then. Slow moving drama. Jumps from bad scene to bad scene.
Guide; F-word. Sex. Nudity (Helene Joy)