Greta by
Ray Wright
Eight out
of 10
Given that
Isabelle Huppert is one of the iconic figures of world cinema - probably sharing
the top spot with Meryl Streep - it seems like a tremendous waste of talent to
use her for Greta.
Indeed, we
read in The Guardian that:
‘It’s
everything and nothing, a familiar regurgitation of a formula with precious
little to add’
Opposing Greta,
we find Chloe Grace Moretz, a young, exceptional artist, who has acted with
vibrancy in films like The Miseducation of Cameron Post – reviewed here: http://realini.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-miseducation-of-cameron-post.html
Chloe Grace
Moretz is Frances McCullen, the one who finds a bag in the subway and then she
contacts Greta Hideg, aka Isabelle Huppert.
Touched by
the age of the woman who had ‘lost’ her bag, with the identity card inside it,
and her narrative, which involves a story that is made up, as we would learn
along the way, Frances spends time with Greta.
Her friend
and roommate, Erica Penn aka the remarkable Maika Monroe, is much more
skeptical, but the protagonist does not listen to alarm bells, presumably
missing out on the Gift of Fear.
The Gift of
fear has been listed among the 50 Psychology classics and it explains how
people get out of dangerous situations because they have a feeling something is
wrong and they have…the gift of fear.
Mixed with
reality, we have some nightmares in which Frances finds that she is crushed in
an elevator, locked within a would be coffin, more like a big chest actually.
As we know from
the horror movies with which Greta shares too much, giving the public a strong
feeling of déjà vu, the terror would increase gradually and the debut seems
innocent.
Greta is just
an aging woman, who is lonely, wants company and on the other side, Frances
seems to miss her parents, maybe looks for a mother substitute and is altogether
a nice, kind woman.
Even when
she discovers that Greta has a multitude of bags to place in the subway and
trap strangers with them, the young woman does not over react, but she would
soon worry.
For Greta
begins to stalk her and Frances has to call the police when the weird Mrs.
Hideg is standing unmoved near the restaurant where her prey works, but without
effect.
The officer
explains that she has a right to be there, as long as she does not push things
further, which she would soon do, as we could anticipate, for it is predictable
alas.
There would
be a scene when the bizarre, obsessive Greta comes as a client and Frances
refuses to serve her, starting a temper tantrum, with table reversed and a big
kerfuffle.
As for the
rest, narcotics or a powerful drug would be used – spoiler alerts seem to be
pointless, for you have seen it all before, if you have watched a few films of
the genre.
We have the
archetypal hiding place, use of violence and threats, blackmail and threats
that Erica might be in terminal danger, the inevitable near miss of the
personage played by Chris Rea- another big waste of tremendous abilities.
Perhaps you
could consider looking for other films with Isabelle Huppert, masterpieces
like:
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