Soft & Quiet is a provocative and intense film, supported by great acting it provides a gut punch look into minds of twisted and warped mentalities, and it's radicalization. Whilst it flies under the banner of being a horror, it's not in a traditional sense anything like you'd expect from a horror. It's a deeply dramatic movie, with horrific elements based on opinions and actions, not gore or creepy stuff.
Directing, I have to say, it worked for me. I really loved the realism it granted and how grounded it made the movie feel. From driving to walking. You get the feeling you're there, it succeeds at that for sure. To add on to this, the framing of the shots, especially some specific ones where dialog is the main focus, the camera is put in a observing position, not caring about putting the subject in frame, but the dialog. This sometimes made it feel like you were eavesdropping, or just being that ''floating consciousness''. It definitely engaged me. That being said, not perfect. If you're sensitive to shaky camera's and or motion blur, this has a lot of it and some shots felt a bit hard to get through just visually.
Acting/writing was great. Though the characters do feel somewhat unreliable regarding their decisions, which is a shame. That might've sold it fully. But the acting was fantastic, especially Luccardi was amazing, her transformation. The writing was well done too in regards to keeping you on your toes a bit. The overall story is blunt and harsh, and gets the point across no doubt. If anything I wished for a slightly deeper layer within the characters and writing.
Besides that, good movie, uncomfortable, as it should be, but good.
Directing, I have to say, it worked for me. I really loved the realism it granted and how grounded it made the movie feel. From driving to walking. You get the feeling you're there, it succeeds at that for sure. To add on to this, the framing of the shots, especially some specific ones where dialog is the main focus, the camera is put in a observing position, not caring about putting the subject in frame, but the dialog. This sometimes made it feel like you were eavesdropping, or just being that ''floating consciousness''. It definitely engaged me. That being said, not perfect. If you're sensitive to shaky camera's and or motion blur, this has a lot of it and some shots felt a bit hard to get through just visually.
Acting/writing was great. Though the characters do feel somewhat unreliable regarding their decisions, which is a shame. That might've sold it fully. But the acting was fantastic, especially Luccardi was amazing, her transformation. The writing was well done too in regards to keeping you on your toes a bit. The overall story is blunt and harsh, and gets the point across no doubt. If anything I wished for a slightly deeper layer within the characters and writing.
Besides that, good movie, uncomfortable, as it should be, but good.