#Horror #Review Time. Welcome. Tonight features a film that is not concerned with what happens but is more concerned about the inevitable nature that it must. This reminds me dearly of @docScratch @doctorScratch @scratchDoctor @thegoodScratchdoctor and any others I may have missed. In this movie, if every motion is a consequence of prior stakes then resistance itself becomes merely fulfillment of the system's design. This is not a romantic movie. Every outcome is predictable. Every choice is pre-resolved. Free Will is a comforting artifact. The masked figures are identity and individuals reduced to function and variables. They participate in a system that does not require the self. The mask is not concealment, but clarification. Personality is noise surrounding the system that demands a signal. The setting is experimental. The stark black and white contrast, rigid staging, and the room, oh the room, it is so exquisite. I enjoy the movie. It is not horrifying. It is a merciless and somehow merciful commentary on naturalism and nature. Conversations are structured arguments, not emotionally driven. They are all... whispers of ideas said in another room. It is, unfortunate, that the primary flaw is that the movie trades opacity for depth. It is murky, it is unkind to first time viewers. It undermines its own thesis. The absence of emotional variance-- well, it's not necessarily a flaw. But it can be off-putting. The Laplace’s Demon succeeds not as horror in the traditional sense, but as a demonstration that terror need not be felt to be absolute. It is sufficient that it is unavoidable. The most unsettling aspect is not that the outcome is known, but that one cannot meaningfully prefer an alternative. https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNWQ1MWNlNGUtYzcxNC00ZWU1LWEwY2ItOTFmNGMxMzQzNzlkXkEyXkFqcGc%40._V1_.jpg
