{"id":30352,"date":"2019-02-05T05:30:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T10:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=30352"},"modified":"2019-02-05T05:30:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T10:30:09","slug":"silhouettes-2018-final-girls-berlin-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/05\/silhouettes-2018-final-girls-berlin-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Silhouettes (2018) [Final Girls Berlin Film Festival]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/silhouette.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30353 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/silhouette.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/silhouette.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/silhouette-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/silhouette-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><strong><em>\u201cGrowing Pains\u201d Shorts Block<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sadly, while I had high hopes for \u201cSilhouettes,\u201d I didn\u2019t particularly love it. I think director Sarah Brill has a lot of potential as a filmmaker and I loved the tension leading in to the climax. That said, everything else is kind of routine and dull, while the film itself is in dire need of tighter editing.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Emily just moved in to the neighborhood and is a bit weird. When young Jackie\u2019s mother forces her to engage in a play date, the two form a bond almost immediately. Meanwhile, Jackie\u2019s mother Susan is surprised when she learns Emily\u2019s shady past, and gets to know her brutally controlling, militantly religious grandmother. \u201cSilhouettes\u201d is a movie with a message about tolerance and learning to respect others\u2019 boundaries and accept that they might be just a bit peculiar. It\u2019s a cautionary tale badly in need of some nipping and tucking, as well as slightly better direction with the young cast.<\/p>\n<p>I was also never too sure what the climax was supposed to indicate, if anything, especially when the narrative resolves itself with one final shot meant to confirm how everything ended. The sad thing is I was never too sure what was going on beyond Emily and her grandmother\u2019s situation, and even then it\u2019s played for ambiguity. So I was more confused when the credits rolled more than frightened or satisfied. I think there\u2019s a great film hidden somewhere in the seams of the script.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Final Girls Berlin Film Festival runs every year from January 31<sup>st<\/sup> to February 3<sup>rd<\/sup>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGrowing Pains\u201d Shorts Block Sadly, while I had high hopes for \u201cSilhouettes,\u201d I didn\u2019t particularly love it. I think director Sarah Brill has a lot of potential as a filmmaker and I loved the tension leading in to the climax. That said, everything else is kind of routine and dull, while the film itself is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[302,477,501,703,938,1008],"class_list":["post-30352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-drama","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-mystery","tag-short-film","tag-supernatural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30354,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30352\/revisions\/30354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}