An LA school guard starts having horrifying visions after seeing a strange light in the sky and tries to keep it together as his wife’s due date approaches.
There is beauty in its simplicity! Right off the bat, there is something very natural in the pace and rhythm, the acting, the dialogue, and the subplot: A financially stable couple tries to stay afloat as the wife deals with her pregnancy and the husband struggles to get a better job – very relatable to most of us. And that’s what leads to the plot: The strange light in the sky and the visions that follow it.
What happens next, and till the very end, is a challenge for the viewer: Is it traumatic stress due to the wife’s heavy pregnancy? Is it uncertainty for the future? The horrific past? His career – or lack thereof? All of them piled up? Actual aliens? That is something that you need to establish for yourselves when the end credits start rolling. What I can tell you is this: You will want everything to return to normal, but you know it won’t, even though deep down, it’s so dark that you don’t want the normal. At some point, you will let writer/director Peter Cilella take you to wherever this mystic journey is taking you. That’s what I call cinematic beauty, even though I understand if it is not for everyone. In front of the camera, Ross Marquand and Sarah Bolger are brilliant.
While watching it, I couldn’t help but wonder that this kind of cinema reminds me of films like Spring (2012), The Endless (2017) and Synchronic (2019). What do you know… the phenomenal Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, the guys behind those films, are behind this one too!
P.S. For those who don’t know what pre-eclampsia is, just know that it can ruin your life forever. I hope no one ever has to face it.
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