Reviews of the film "Dream House": advantages and disadvantages

"Dream House" (2011) is a psychological thriller of the famous Irish director Jim Sheridan, director of the classic films "In the Name of the Father" and "My Left Foot", in the scriptwriter David Luke.

Who pays, that's right?

Thriller "Dream House" reviews about the film, written by prominent filmmakers, called one of the strangest joint film projects of the latest James Bond and Oscar-winning beauty. It was during the production of the picture began a violent novel by Daniel Craig and Rachel Weiss, which ended in a loud wedding celebration.

In addition to this romantic story, during the production of the film, an unpleasant incident happened. Throughout the filming process, the director struggled with Jim Robinson, director of the film corporation Morgan Creek. Jim Sheridan wanted the project to be completely authoritative, so he persistently pushed his own thoughts about the scenario structure and its implementation, that is, the production. Almost all the reviews about the film "Dream House" contain this information "about the rampage of the dictatorship" by Robinson.

And it could be all differently

But in the end Robinson, enlisting the support of producers Daniel Bobker and Eren Kruger, still selected the project from the director and assembled the finished material at his discretion. Reviews of the film "Dream House", left by film industry experts, are often called among the shortcomings of tape heavyweight direction. However, this judgment is unjustified in the light of the events described above. After all, after the differences between the creators of the film Sheridan, and together with him the performers of the main roles Weiss and Craig, who also did not like the demonstration material mounted by the studio , refused to take part in the advertising campaign of the film. As far as there could be another thriller, now one can only guess, but the reaction of the participants in the filming is clear.

Plot

The plot of the film "House of Dreams" reviews critics called the next variation of the horror stories about the family, who moved to a new house with a terrible secret of the past.

The main character is the editor of one of the book publishers Will Athenton (Daniel Craig) decides to devote himself to writing, write his own novel, so he quits his job and buys a house in the suburbs. Having dealt with the affairs of daily life, Will goes to the acquired country house, where he is waiting for his beautiful wife (Rachel Weiss) and two charming daughters. Family idyll was not destined to last a long time, soon a strange little girl began to imagine a strange person outside the window, the father of the family discovers other people's footprints in the backyard and in the garden, and the young Goths are pampered in the cellar, where they rule their black masses. Having dug into the history of the house, Athenton finds out that he had a family of a psychopath who, having shot his wife and daughters, tried to commit suicide, but survived. Where after the madman has gone, all associates prefer to keep mum. Silent not only the local law enforcement officers, but also a nervous neighbor (Naomi Watts), however, she has more than her own family problems. On this brief description of the storyline, most reviews about the film "Dream House" end, which is not surprising, because the subsequent story will contain a lot of spoilers and deprive the viewer of the pleasure of viewing.

According to the rules of film review

How the plot will develop and what kind of upheavals await the heroes of the "Dream House" picture, critics' reviews are silent. To anticipate the scenario turns explaining the lawlessness in the house is not so difficult, especially to the fans of the genre. The plot is secondary, not new, and its variations have repeatedly been used in successful horror and psychological thrillers. However, according to the postulates of film criticism, critics prefer to keep silent the culmination of the tape, preserving the intrigue. Moreover, further explanation of the development of the narrative narrative can work in two ways, so the thriller "House of Dreams" reviews the reviews with caution. The only thing that causes bewilderment of the masses is the so-called classical "unexpected" denouement, which due to inexplicable reasons comes about at the 40th minute of the 84-minute timekeeping picture. The move is non-standard, more than brave, but too discouraging. At the climax, the creators are trying to launch another intrigue, it turns out to be frankly weak.

Undoubted dignity

Reviews of the movie "Dream House" among the virtues of the thriller deservedly determine its visual part. The work of the inimitable cameraman Kulyab Deschanel, who demonstrated the wonders of professionalism in the "Black Horse", in "The Guys what you need", is so filigree that it itself is overtaking the horror. At the very beginning, what is happening in the tape frightens not so much with cliched techniques like the creaking of floorboards and staircases, shadows outside the windows and the alarming noise coming from the cellar, and causing inflections in the color scheme. Recreating the idealistic picture is complemented by a warm color scheme, and the first frames of the alarm that destroys her are shown in cold blue halftones.

Verdict

"Dream House" has an IMDb rating of 6.00, MPAA rating of PG-13 and is not the most incompetent thriller of category B. In the list of pluses of the tape is an amazing constellation of actors who demonstrated real professionalism, therefore one of the most important components of any film project responsible for the overall impression From viewing, in the creation of Jim Sheridan on top. To all, Weiss and Craig have something to thank for these shootings.