Synopsis
A girl (Severine Simone) walking home late at night finds herself being followed by a frightening figure that copies her every movement.
A girl (Severine Simone) walking home late at night finds herself being followed by a frightening figure that copies her every movement.
Using the gothic trope of the doppelgänger to explore the second guessing women do to themselves thanks to a world that has normalised gendered victim blaming. Pretty dark stuff that will be sadly relevant for a while. 😔
There’s a genuine sense of fear and tension early on, but it’s then dissipated by an overlong and confused exercise in crosscutting.
Very inventive horror short externalizing a very horrific real life occurrence that happens to far too many women. It starts out surreal and creepy and only become even more disturbing as you figure out what's really going on.
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Spoiler + TW rape
I'd be curious to know the writing/editing process behind this because to me it would be more powerful not to show the rape scene (even though it is not shown full screen). It was so clear already that being explicit dampens it?
When Mai sends her drunk friend Sian home in a taxi, she finds herself being pursued by a shadowy assailant who is copying her every move. Unable to outrun her stalker, she confronts them to discover something deeply unsettling.