Orphanage. Spanish (El Orfanato), directed by Juan Antonio Bayona. Running time: 102 min.
A film about the supernatural, the Hereafter and the occult do not speak well to the largest audience. Or does it? This movie is all about the issues and is alive and kicking in the film's own terms, as long as you can put up with it. And just this film differs from other (U.S.) horror by not splatter ago and to have so many other facets that it can pull up and beam it through.
The beautiful dark images are the hallmarks of "El Orfanato", and just horror elements with forgotten children and strange twisted stitches seem to be eternally valid. Photo: Camera Film
El Orfanato is about a small family, Laura, her husband and their adopted son, Simon. They return to the house, formerly the orphanage Laura lived on. Here they intend to make a home for children with special problems. There is, however, things in the beautiful old house, and on the days when paired with the opening celebration for the possible indflyttere disappearance of her own son, after an altercation earlier, triggered by the fact that Simon found out that he is adopted and even have a terminal illness - he is HIV positive. Prior to the house has been visited by an old social worker, Begnita, who previously worked on the spot and dig well and truly up in things, and she will prove to be an important part of history veldrejede action. After her son's disappearance, Laura refuses to give up hope, long after both the police and her husband did. She feels that he is somewhere in the house and that he, or some of his "invisible" friends trying to communicate to her. In this part of the movie is the essence: Laura (and Simon) will to life trumps all of the characters are to her son is dead, and her journey leads her out the other side of reason, death, time and intellect limits. The classic tension on that one should not look to faith, but faith to see. Ren Peter Pan theme, as there are also many direct references.
So clean history regularly works Orphanage unbelievably good, and you are convinced that Laura is not insane, but only in contact with his son's vivid imagination - and nowhere break the movie, you will never be left to the banal or excessive film writing. It is a real shock horror is not in doubt about the violent terror war from the cinema hall audience that night were frequent, and the popcorn flew around as a result of the owner's anxiety provoked violent jerks. But it is precisely because the film is more than just a series of shocks that it differs from so many other films of its genre, there is a great story, as all ways are credible, fabulous acting performance, especially Laura (played by Belén Rueda) but also by the young Roger Princep (Simon), beautiful dark images with astonishing visualizations, as the strange bird's eye view inside the house, a wonderfully sinister soundtrack - all these factors makes the film for more than a good thriller, it has become a good film and a really good one for that matter.
