In a Glass Cage

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Alfred K This is a dark creepy movie that keeps you on the edge of your seat. The acting by everyone is excellent & the plot is suspenseful. The movie is a reminder that the evil of one person is far reaching & not easy to extinguish. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 04/24/23 Full Review Audience Member A boy hanging, beaten and bloody. A man jumps off a roof. Somebody else is there - we follow the camera's eye, feel his breathing. It's a pretty intense start. Horrible things revealed about the man's past -now confined to an iron lung. Disturbing imagery - twisted eroticism; a bleak, dark game. Music supports the eerie feel, accompanied by the heavy breathing that dominates the soundtrack. There is no let up, no redemption. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member idk; i get it. the subject matter is incredibly disturbing & you knew that it was going to be right out of the gate. that very first scene definitely set a precedent. however, i'm not sure i'd put this on the same list as other disturbing titles, which i'll choose to not name. they never show anything, they only talk about it. so, yes - still disturbing subject matter & depending on how active your imagination is, could really get to you. but IMO this wasn't that good/bad (however you want to look at it). Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Nikolai H Deeply unsettling... a thought-provoking portrayal of obsession and cycles of abuse. It's a moody slow burn that gets under your skin. Very well done and featuring some truly chilling performances. Although I really wish we saw a bit more backstory for Angelo... his behavior isn't terribly well explained and he feels slightly flat as a result. It also feels longer than necessary, and combined with the constant overbearing grim mood it's a bit challenging to get through in one sitting. I've heard this described as "extreme horror" and I don't think it is exactly, but it is incredibly disturbing and its portrayal of child abuse can make this hard to watch. The horror feels very real even when the show descends into an almost dream-like state. Ultimately a pretty depressing watch. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 08/03/17 Full Review Audience Member The cruel and compelling images of In a Glass Cage will affect viewers differently. I was constantly reminded of the sadistic and depraved behavior of Nazi doctors, their twisted compulsion to document their actions, and the cancerous legacy they left to a world forced to grapple with them. In A Glass Cage imagines a scenario where a boy victimized by such a Nazi doctor suffers some sort of PTSD and becomes a monster himself. Presented in the style of a grim thriller, the film ultimately crumbles under the weight of the subject matter it depicts. Theses kinds of films are valuable mainly as a way to remind society of man's capacity for evil. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member It's very rare that you see a movie which is able to shock and disgust you, but is also impossible to look away from. Such is the case with In a Glass Cage, a story of cold, calculating retribution. Creating a dark, bleak, foreboding atmosphere, our lead characters exist within a world where the past is inescapable, and can hold a grudge longer than any mortal being. We follow Angelo, a haunting performance by David Sust, as he aims to exact a slow and cruel revenge on the man that left an indelible mark upon his pre-teen years. The first half builds up the tension and discomfort, and the second half sees it being unleashed full force upon the man in the eponymous cage. The music is simplistic and chilling, and the repetitive clunking of the Iron Lung represents the grinding clock of wasted time, ticking down the seconds of the family's hollow existence. It does grow quite monotonous in the third act, and will likely have you checking your watch more and more often, but what will hold your attention is the creepy central performance, which grows increasingly more disturbed but never goes over the top, holding back until the character can fulfil his plan. It's a film that examines isolation, regret, war atrocities, euthanasia and how the horrors experienced during childhood can follow through to adulthood, often with disastrous consequences. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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