April 2020. The coronavirus pandemic is in full swing, isolation begins in almost all states of America. Student Parker (Gideon Adlon from The Society and Witchcraft: Legacy) decides to self-isolate with his best friend Miri. (Bethlehem Million from Crimes in Flatbush)) in a luxury family cottage by the lake. Quarantine promises to be extremely exciting, but at night someone armed with a sharp knife enters the house – and covid security measures are quickly losing their relevance.
Frame from the movie “Sick” (2022)
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The story of the coronavirus, which has been removed from consciousness with current events, continues to be interpreted in different ways through artistic expression, although it is not the first freshness with masks and disinfectants, but at some point it becomes completely impossible to ignore. In 2021 there was Doug Liman’s heist movie Lockdown, 2022 kicked off with Steven Soderbergh’s conspiracy thriller Kimi, starting this year (for those not at the Toronto Film Festival in September) with a home invasion slasher “Sick” from the pen of the genre. lead author Kevin Williamson – screenwriter of “The Scream” and “I Know What You Did Last Summer.”
The involvement of Williamson (who worked here with Caitlin Crabbe, who served as his assistant on the fifth “Scream”) does not generally go unnoticed. It’s an all-around strong genre movie, even giving it a home invasion that exceeds parsimonious standards – a fully formulated nefarious motivation, say, feels almost luxurious, a kind of “Silence” by Mike Flanagan could easily do without, but here you are – at your expense organisation.
Frame from the movie “Sick” (2022)
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In this sense, the movie “Patient” in general is quite generous and made with folded arms. Cinematographer Yaron Levy, where others would confine themselves to a slightly more realistic and gory version of “Home Alone” (versions, not paintings) you just want to check once again that the door is securely locked, cinematographer Yaron Levy (TV series “The Scream”, “Judgment Night” and “Black Summer”)) and director John Hyams, (The last two “Universal Soldiers”, “Eyes of the Dragon” and the thriller “Missing” were also written by Williamson.) Twist the tension with energetic camera moves that seem to have been transported here from Asian action movies (or projects by Gareth Evans, author of The Raid).
Such a positive excess, however, does not serve the tape in any case: “The Sick” nevertheless manages to be a social horror in a sense, because there are, among other things, some explanation for hysteria. In the authors’ opinion, the hysteria that accompanies the virus’s march on the planet is as if it were unhealthy and unnecessary.
Marginal notes like this might lead someone to categorize the film in the category of anti-vaccine propaganda, which is obviously not meant much, but how did it happen. Regardless, it is possible to get three cocktails for the price of one cocktail within the framework of local promotion, but it does not seem necessary, so the individual elements of “The Patient” should simply be ignored. especially sharp emotions. Moreover, there are already enough sharp objects here, and life during the now infinitely distant covid (which, of course, is not the case at all) is remembered almost with nostalgia, although there was absolutely nothing good in it.
Source: Gazeta
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