KNIFE FRIGHT No one who sees Whannell’s update is likely to look at kitchen blades in quite the same way ever againĪ while back, Tom Cruise met with executives at Universal Pictures to brainstorm a way to breathe new life into the studio's venerable but dusty catalog of horror properties.The moments her face isn’t on screen are there to have us guessing and investigating. That tension is what makes every Elizabeth Moss-less second of this movie work. An unexplained ruffling of the curtains, a hanger that sways like it was just bumped, a handprint that doesn’t belong, I looked for it all in just about every moment. I tried to see the briefest and most subtle of changes to the picture. I scoured each centimeter of picture in front of me every time I knew he was on screen. I have never been more aware of every inch of the screen than I was watching this movie. While I do think we maybe saw one too many obvious camera tricks in play, the majority of The Invisible Man‘s running time is dependent upon the camera telling us where to look. The casting and acting in The Invisible Man keeps you invested no matter what is unfolding on screen, and how much of it you can actually see.īeyond Elizabeth Moss’ incredibly work, and the awesome cast in this movie, I also have to give it up for the camera work. Michael Dorman delivers kindness and madness in equal parts as Tom Griffin, as anyone who’s had to grow up alongside a true sociopath would undoubtedly have to master both. Harriet Dyer is a little cold as Cecelia’s sister, Emily, but it fits their seemingly superficial relationship. Aldis Hodge and Storm Reid knock their roles out of the park, especially given how little actual screen time they had to work with. I also want to give a hearty round of applause to the casting in this movie. So it makes total sense that she would know where he was even when she couldn’t see him. Whether it was a room, a mile, or a hundred. No doubt she spent every minute of every day of their lives aware of exactly how far away from her he was. She can feel Adrian’s presence more acutely than anyone, no doubt due to the years of abuse. There’s no reason to believe that a man who appears to have committed suicide could possibly still be alive, well, and invisible. All evidence points to the man being dead. I don’t blame Cecelia’s friends and family for questioning her sanity when Adrian begins to stalk her. They may question her sanity later, when all the evidence Adrian planned and stacked against her screams to anyone with an amateur eye that she’s lost her mind, but no one ever questions her account of the psychological, physical, and emotional abuse she suffered at the hands of Adrian Griffin. None of her loved ones question her about the abuse. Anyone who would go to the lengths she does to escape his grasp, anyone who is terrified to even get the mail on her own for fear of being found, anyone who goes to the lengths she does to have her own life on her own terms is easily believed.Īnd this movie believes Cecelia Kass in that respect. We don’t need to see his abuse to believe this woman. I love that The Invisible Man picks up just as she’s leaving Adrian in the middle of the night. Over the years, I’ve seen her take on battered woman after battered woman, choosing to bring to life some of the most brutally tortured characters, but they always have fight in them, and Cecelia is the pinnacle of that idea.Ĭecelia Kass is nothing but fight. She handles the complex emotional battlefield that Cecelia experiences throughout this film’s running time with a practiced hand. There simply are not words to express how incredible Elizabeth Moss is in this role. Because when your stalker is invisible, it’s impossible to know just how far away he is at any given moment. The Invisible Man tells the story of Cecelia Kass, a woman who fell for the wrong man, and after enduring his controlling, sociopathic ways, tries to escape his grasp only to find herself within arm’s reach time and time again.
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