{"id":31469,"date":"2019-06-25T02:47:57","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T06:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=31469"},"modified":"2019-06-25T02:47:57","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T06:47:57","slug":"the-last-to-see-them-gli-ultimi-viderli-vivere-2019-cinepocalypse-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/25\/the-last-to-see-them-gli-ultimi-viderli-vivere-2019-cinepocalypse-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last to See Them (Gli Ultimi Viderli Vivere) (2019) [Cinepocalypse 2019]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Director Sara Summa paints “The Last to See Them” as the anti-thriller, it\u2019s the calm before the storm, as four family members living in a remote farm in the Italian countryside are doomed to die horrendous murders in the middle of the night. What we see is the hours leading up to their death as\u2026 well nothing happens. Absolutely nothing happens. Director Sara Summa\u2019s \u201cThe Last to See Them\u201d has all the ingredients for a brutally creepy, and unsettling thriller but it amounts to a disappointingly empty posturing of the antithesis of the genre.<\/p>\n

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Summa establishes her thriller with a prologue that reveals that in 2012, a family of four was found murdered and bound in their home\u2014allegedly mob ties were suspected, but there were no concrete resolutions. This is supposed to be a narrative about what happened to them before their horrible murders. Except that nothing happens in this movie that purports to uphold this idea that we\u2019re watching a thriller. Summa unfolds \u201cThe Last to See Them\u201d in a methods of undercutting our expectations by literally delivering nothing that leads in to these murders. There is no real clue, or hint, or even foreshadowing. What Summa does is set up a ton of pathways that could have possibly, maybe, potentially led to these terrible murders.<\/p>\n

And then when it\u2019s time to offer up even a slight hint, it comes to a dreadful close. Summa tries to vainly find the terror in the mundane, looking at how sudden life can be, and how evil can pounce any time, but it\u2019s so poorly realized. The pacing is a slog, the atmosphere is non-existent, and the whole affair is painfully dull. Summa has the hook just fine, but skimps out on any kind of reward for investing so much time in what occurs (and lack thereof). There\u2019s the constant shot of a car driving up to the winding road leading to the family\u2019s house, but there\u2019s literally nothing else that pays off for even the most patient audience members. There are lingering scenes of the patriarch of the family peeling an orange, there\u2019s a long scene of mom Alice and daughter Dora washing dishes after dinner, the family squabbles over seasoning on spaghetti, Dora even teaches her neighbor how to make a pie.<\/p>\n

All of this is cut together with large shots of the family\u2019s land overlooking the farm, and then Summa basically pulls everything back and closes the film with absolutely nothing. I\u2019m not one to who has have activity non-stop in a thriller, but \u201cThe Last to See Them\u201d has nothing. Nothing happens. There are no events or anything remotely dramatic that unfolds, and it\u2019s sad that the only redeeming trait I can muster up is that, at least, it\u2019s barely eighty minutes in length. I imagine this will be fiercely polarizing when it grabs a larger audience very soon.<\/p>\n

Cinepocalypse 2019 runs from June 13th until June 20th.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Director Sara Summa paints “The Last to See Them” as the anti-thriller, it\u2019s the calm before the storm, as four family members living in a remote farm in the Italian countryside are doomed to die horrendous murders in the middle of the night. What we see is the hours leading up to their death as\u2026 […]<\/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":[240,302,367,703,1087],"class_list":["post-31469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-crime","tag-drama","tag-foreign","tag-mystery","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31469","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=31469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31471,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31469\/revisions\/31471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}