Out of the World

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Amielle G A film in the art of stillness and silence. This film seemed to hold negative reviews spanning across platforms - which would undoubtedly throw anyone off from watching. However, within the first 16 minutes of watching I was in awe - enough so to leave one of my first ever film reviews. The choreography is art. It is poetry. It is a hand reaching - continuously grasping for control - and the act of witnessing something graceful, slip into something dangerous. All of his characters movements, including his mannerisms, are stitched with hunger. A nice touch was the observable and mirrored silence, not uniquely in response to the female leads - but instead a level of stillness in which made that hunger visible. It was reflected in the actors gaze at almost every available instance and incited goosebumps more than once. What can I say - without condoning or romanticising the violence against women where serial killing aspects are concerned - we all love the tortured soul of a man who can sit in the void, live within it - and still yearn. Two of the strongest elements within the film lie not in what was shown, but in what was withheld. The film thankfully resisted the urge to spoon feed its audience as so many do. So little was spoken outright by either protagonist, and yet the picture was painted with startling clarity through that silence, their gestures, and his gaze. Almost nothing was left to the chaos of imagination or hollow guessing games; instead, every thread of reasoning, every answer, and ultimately the ending itself felt like one inevitable path towards the culmination of grief unto rage. And then there was the pacing: rare, deliberate, and unhurried. It moved not with the impatient machinery of modern thrillers we see today - but to the melody of something solemn, almost funereal. In whichever ways the film may stumble for others, those first moments incite within them a rare kind of cinematic poetry. It is rare to see bodies speaking a language sharper than dialogue, and even rarer so to see such contrast and duality between beauty and brutality. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 09/12/25 Full Review Read all reviews

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