Movie Review - The Invisible Man

The feeling after watching this movie –The Invisible Man……

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★Synopsis

This Invisible Man is directed by Leigh Whannell and a contemporary adaptation of the novel of the same name. The girl, Cecilia (played by Elisabeth Moss), wondered what she heard. She looked around and was empty.

A pair of silent footprints were approaching her. A flash of light and a short scream, another prey became the victim of the invisible man. The transparent hand is already eager for the next more intriguing killing.

This seems to be the routine of the invisible man horror movie. Since the science fiction master H.G. Wells wrote the "Invisible Man" novel in 1897, we have heard the screams of countless victims under the invisible man.

The new 2020 version of "Invisible Man" tells us a new common sense: we don't need the invisible man to kill, just let the victims scream as long as possible.

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★Simple but horror atmosphere

In the first half of the movie, even Jump-scare skill was used only once. Whannell used a lot of 180-degree shifting lenses around the heroine to let the audience notice if there was any abnormality behind the heroine. These shots move slowly and stably, as if the surveillance camera records all the weirdness relentlessly, forcing the audience to stare directly at the dust in the air, the stains on the wall to find the invisible, and then you find a small thing suddenly move, your heartbeat also stops for a moment.

Slow camera movement condensed silent pressure, but more pressure came from the face of Elisabeth Moss, who was a victim of domestic violence, but how can the victim in the two-person world prove this fact?

The director didn't need complicated background settings to set up a transparent wall for the heroine to isolate the world. Her relatives and friends knew she was suffering, but they didn’t know what she was suffering. They couldn’t tell whether these unspeakable mental abuses came from Cecilia’s falsity or truth.

And when the invisible man began to harass Sicilia, it made this wall of real society ignoring the problem of domestic violence thicker. People around Cecilia gradually increased their distrust of her, and coupled with the absentminded eyes of her, made all these calls for help like a disorder delirium.

The feeling of watching this movie is like 2018's "Halloween". All killings are meaningful, and the pressure of silence permeates the entire movie. There is no drop of blood to support time. It took an hour to describe the actual dilemma of the heroine, then turned sharply into the story reversal and intense violence, and finally gave the audience a powerful blow.

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★The converse two feelings coexist

The plot of this movie is not complicated. The turning point may not escape the audience's wisdom, but the interesting point isn’t to let the audience guess what will happen in the next second, but to eagerly watch about the ending coming. To see that scene coming, the audience has been under invisible pressure for 2 hours, they need an emotional release, and in the end, "The Invisible Man" will make everyone appear with a smile.

This is not an easy task. The movie needs to be constructed with enough persuasive characters to empathize with the audience, and “the Invisible Man” succeeded. Although the ending was even pathological in many ways, the charm of "Invisible Man" is in transforming morbidity into a release.

For example, the moment when the truth of invisible ability is revealed, the disgusting picture also presents a weird beauty at the same time. The effect can be seen everywhere from the character design of Invisible Man to the art design.

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★Conclusion

"The Invisible Man" is definitely one of the best horror movies this year, and a masterpiece that symbolizes the revival of the classic monster universe around the globe.

Not choosing the dark universe material is definitely the right choice because we don’t need the stunning computer animation and even we don’t need so many victims and their deaths. We only need one invisible man, a long but tortuous scream, some simple photography old skills, and it is enough able to make us contented.