Released in 2022, directed by Joe Wright, this movie leaves the audience speechless as Amy Adams playing the role of a child psychologist suffering through a deep and painful trauma witnesses a murder across the street. Amy Adams playing Anna Fox manages to maintain her sense of humor even in the state of depression and agoraphobia, not leaving her place for ten months obviously has effects of her mental health. Mixing her meds with alcohol every night, reflecting on her loneliness, takes her into a dark place and people do not believe her when she reports the crime and tell her that she is hallucinating because of heavy drug and alcohol intake. They convince her to a point where she actually starts to believe them and goes into a very dark place in her head and decides to commit suicide but minutes before she goes through with it she receives a threatening and mind boggling picture on her laptop which makes her realize that she was not hallucinating after all. Amy Adams uncovers her character’s unpredictability through rattled trembles and frenzied screeches, yet with a major buried aptitude.
The Russell family just moved across the street and Anna has spied on them from the beginning and was taking shots in her unwell state of mind. This family is not nearly as interesting as the mystery which unravels itself in the most sinister way. They have a teenage boy who appears to be the victim of domestic abuse at the hand of his father, but you know what they say about appearances, they can be very deceptive. Anna being a child psychologist although should have understood this boy better but could not because of how well he pretended. The first time he comes to visit, he seems harmless enough, but shortly after that, his mother, Jane, shows up and delivers even more information regarding the family. Julianne Moore plays her as a beautiful blonde: lively and charming, amusing and distressingly blunt, she’s just the spark Anna needs. "You’re a shrink? That’s a twist!” she bursts out laughing as they vibe together while sipping wine. She’s so extraordinary, it’s enough to make one wonder whether she’s real or is Anna making her up in her mind when she later promises that she saw Jane’s husband stabbing her in their kitchen.
Things take a riveting turn when Jane’s husband turns up to Anna’s place and shows a completely different woman and says she’s alive which leaves Anna in a frantic mental state thinking to herself who was the other woman? Is she alive? Where is she? Anna playing detective in her mind in an obsessive way makes the viewers wonder if she is only delusional or is she actually on to something. The mystery unfolds itself in the most disturbing way leaving the viewers catching for breath. This ominous, mind-bending, suspenseful movie is undoubtedly a good watch and keeps the audience engaged till the very end.
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