The premise is state of the art and something the world should really be more suspicious of -- people trying to find ways to control consumers through their every day environment. In fact, judging by the reviews here, I think very few people even caught on to what the film was about. Probably because Ricci plays a common housewife with no special skills that we can see. And in sort of Alfred Hitchcock fashion, none of the players are particularly interesting or unusually suspicious.
I would love to see this type of premise done a bit more dramatically to really be in your face. Because right now it's just online social media which people don't really grasp the marketing manipulation behind yet.
From my perspective, the title is a puzzle itself: is Ricci's character's mind distorted; or is someone distorting her reality to manipulate her mind?
But the distortion of the film is not what made Ricci unrecognizable! I felt very let down to keep staring at this face and feeling a vague sense of familiarity when finally a brief search confirmed it is Ricci plus your standard thinned out, pinched in nose job. I mean, if she was trying to look just like every other aging female in Hollywood then the nose job was a success.
So, as for the film -- I can only try to emphasize to all those reviewing the film as a bi-polar v. paranoia vehicle: Please watch the film and rewind that parts that don't make sense until they do. Or just take my word for it: this is NOT about a person's disorder, although it plays off a former patient's questionable perspective.
this film should have much higher ratings if people with some sort of education or business training were a larger part of the audience. Instead it falls on the deaf ears of the very consumers that manipulation machines like FaceHook & Yoogle (intentionally misspelled) are already puppet-fying.
From my perspective, the title is a puzzle itself: is Ricci's character's mind distorted; or is someone distorting her reality to manipulate her mind?
But the distortion of the film is not what made Ricci unrecognizable! I felt very let down to keep staring at this face and feeling a vague sense of familiarity when finally a brief search confirmed it is Ricci plus your standard thinned out, pinched in nose job. I mean, if she was trying to look just like every other aging female in Hollywood then the nose job was a success.
So, as for the film -- I can only try to emphasize to all those reviewing the film as a bi-polar v. paranoia vehicle: Please watch the film and rewind that parts that don't make sense until they do. Or just take my word for it: this is NOT about a person's disorder, although it plays off a former patient's questionable perspective.
this film should have much higher ratings if people with some sort of education or business training were a larger part of the audience. Instead it falls on the deaf ears of the very consumers that manipulation machines like FaceHook & Yoogle (intentionally misspelled) are already puppet-fying.