Some details are pretty quickly revealed, and they begin to paint a different picture than what the watcher originally thought was true. I loved watching the way the two characters interacted and trying to figure out what to believe. Both characters were compelling. This movie did not turn out how I expected and I loved the minimal scene changes. It gave the movie an intimate feel.
Hippopotamus
2018
Action / Drama / Thriller
Hippopotamus
2018
Action / Drama / Thriller
Plot summary
Ruby wakes from a bad dream to find herself in a real life nightmare. She's trapped in a basement, her legs don't work and she can't remember who she is or how she got there. Her kidnapper, Tom, tells her she will remain captive until she falls in love with him. Tom appears to be predicting her every desire, but Ruby focused on trying to escape begins play along.
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Not What I Expected
Not one for the phone generation
Not a movie to be texting and tweeting to. This needs to be watched and absorbed. Slow burn and brilliant.
Flash memory
Ruby A. Watts (Ingvild Deila) wakes up in a sparsely furnished room with her legs inoperative. Her captor introduces himself as Thomas Allcroft (Stuart Mortimer). He is very polite and tells her she will stay there until she loves him. We then slowly build the story that leads up to where we are.
I hate to say I sort of guessed what was going on, but that may have been the intent. Two people in a room for nearly the whole film didn't make it for me. The dialogue needed to be more clever and the personalities were too dry.
Guide: Brief distant rape. No nudity. No swearing as I recall, but I did use the FF button.