Review of The Drowning

The Drowning (2016)
8/10
Great if you like psychological thriller
19 August 2019
Warning: Spoilers
This is for people who like to be challenged and don't necessarily need all questions answers for them. Watching this may leave you annoyed but it'll keep you thinking about for a while. Story about an unstable guy who was sentenced to years in prison for killing an elderly woman as a child. The testimony of a psychiatrist helped to put him away. He locates the dr and incorporate himself into his life changing characters to suit his game and manipulate all characters. Because it is a game, game he planned. Throughout the movie you ask yourself who's crazy and who's telling the truth. You get tangled in the mind games, you have to pull yourself out and consider the facts and what's the reasonable behaviour. The guy who clearly is a killer is trying to manipulate you into thinking that there's killers who like it and who don't. Trying to make you think you could easily become one and if you haven't experienced it you are just an observer. Someone who cannot understands it unless they are in the situation. He puts the dr into a situation where he'll have to choose if he kill his father in self defence trying to prove that all of us are killers if we let the 90% of animal in us act. Sad story as shows how psychopaths operate and that there's no amount of analysis that'll explain or excuse the fact that 11 year old boy killed another human being in cold blood. Would we blame society? DNA? Upbringing? Of simply admit that all of us have free will to decide what to do in any given situation. And deal with the consequences of our action.
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