A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing them to age rapidly – reducing their entire lives into a single day.
- Released: 2021-07-21
- Runtime: 108 minutes
- Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thrillers
- Stars: Gael García Bernal, Vicky Krieps, Rufus Sewell, Alex Wolff, Thomasin McKenzie, Abbey Lee, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Ken Leung, Eliza Scanlen, Aaron Pierre, Embeth Davidtz, Emun Elliott, Alexa Swinton, Gustaf Hammarsten, Kathleen Chalfant, Francesca Eastwood, Nolan River, Luca Faustino Rodriguez, Mikaya Fisher, Kailen Jude, M. Night Shyamalan, Matthew Shear, Daniel Ison, Jeffrey Holsman, Margaux Da Silva, John Twohy, Kylie Begley, Emma Jonnz
- Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Comments
- arriva - 4 June 2024
M. Night Shyamalan should stick to mythology
No spoilers part:
M. Night Shyamalan's best works are movies about mythology, not really grounded in the real world around us.
This movie however tries to remain in our universe while creating a whole different universe which just doesn't make sense because M. Night Shyamalan barely understands physics, biology and medicine.
You know from the trailer that people on the beach were getting old very fast. To be precise they were aging 17520 times faster than the people living in the real world.
The problem is you cannot just "age", you need to speed up all the biological and physical processes just as much and for those people on the beach it would have meant that they'd had needed to eat 18K more (or faster), require 18K more oxygen and they'd have been basically glued to the feeding tube and the waste tube simultaneously.
Even if we imagine this theoretical possibility, that wouldn't allow people to psychologically/intellectually grow just as fast because in real life that means a ton of interactions with the real world, including dealing with/talking to people, reading, analyzing, doing, etc.
Now, spoilers.
OK, that was some isolated region on Earth which some company used as a testing ground for new medical research. The problem is their clients took medicines just once before departing to the beach.
The vast majority of medications don't work that way. You need to take them periodically. Also, considering their test subjects were under extreme stress, the effectiveness of the medicines could turn out to be minimal or missing altogether.
This super company which should in real life have a trillion dollar turnover has a single lab (!) with roughly 10 technicians/biologists and basically no security.
Younger children needed to eat a ton to grow fast but older people didn't. Whelp, it doesn't work this way. Yeah, cells in younger organisms get replaced faster but not substantially faster.
Now, onto the main issues with the production:- The budget was very low and it showed. Actors aged randomly.
- Audio volume was all over the place and it was too loud too often.
- The movie looked cheap for the idea.
- The script should have been better thought out. I guess you still can make the movie work but not how it was ultimately cut.
- Jamppanen - 5 April 2024
Seriously underrated
I never write reviews but I feel like it needs to be done for this one. This was absolutely brilliant and existentially terrifying. I understand that it's not for everyone but still.. seriously underrated!?
I'm still thinking about this movie months later and recovering from the chills. It is a very unique combination of humour, gore, sunny senery, horror, beauty, confusion and profound sadness. There were elements to this that reminded me of the movies Swiss Army Man and I'm Thinking of Ending Things but it was definitely it's own thing.
I can see why some people have found the execution to be lacking and confusing but for me that mood actually perfectly described the feeling of life flashing you by. Would watch this again but it's way too terrifying.
