Die Vergessenen

Julianne Moore is a good actress - I have a weakness for redheads - but she doesn't always choose a good movie. In this case, she chose a mysterious thriller, which is an incredibly tricky genre. When you think about the script very carefully, incredible gems can come out of it, like "The Sixth Sense" or "The Others". Well, when you don't have such a good script, you end up with a film like "Memory Thieves". A film like "Memory Thieves" has one fundamental flaw - they manage to build up the atmosphere at the beginning very well. You find yourself in a situation where you don't know, just like the characters, what exactly is going on. Weird things happen and you want to know the point. Creating tension is incredibly easy. When you look at movies, many of them rely on this - especially thrillers, which I am talking about - they build up a plot on an unexpected situation, on the peculiar actions of the characters, to create a perfect or slightly less perfect illusion that everything is completely different than we think. Of course, everything is different, but what is most important is the moment when we understand everything and especially the revelation of the truth itself. When the point is revealed too early, the viewer just watches the movie out of inertia to see how it ends. When the point comes too late, only the end credits follow and the viewer feels deprived of something. The point must come at the right moment. But the point must be good in order for the whole film to be good. Some films rely on the fact that the story we are watching is not that interesting, but the point makes up for it. Others, like "Memory Thieves", rely on the fact that the film is good at the beginning, but the more we learn, the less interesting and enjoyable the film becomes. It simply stops entertaining you. The culmination of "Memory Thieves" is uninteresting, perhaps even too detached from reality, where it deserves a more realistic resolution. Or maybe my expectations were different. Well, nothing can be done. We watch a rather sterile and not so violent spectacle that keeps us in suspense until it switches, the rubber breaks, and we are left only with the end credits and the necessary happy ending. After all, it's about children and children don't die in American movies. More: http://www.filmovy-denik.cz/2012/11/prada-tlumocnice-sveraci-kazajka.html (02.03.2013)