★ 7 / 10
Traumatic Psychological Tale... Quite the disturbing opening sequence
patient1
Traumatic Psychological Tale... Quite the disturbing opening sequence, and it's deliciously beautiful. Dianna Agron looks simply Stunning, end of thought.…
Traumatic Psychological Tale...
Quite the disturbing opening sequence, and it's deliciously beautiful. Dianna Agron looks simply Stunning, end of thought.
Trusting in technology can be a scary and often dangerous proposition, and it appears as if we're putting quite a bit of trust in that they're actually doing what they say.
This is psychologically disturbing, and still, I can't turn away from the madness of it all. It appears that in the midst of all the madness, we seem to have found some clarity or have we?
This film will damage some viewer's mental capacity for reasoning and their ability to emotionally grasp all they've seen and felt.
★ 6 / 10
A Particularly Female-Oriented Psychological Horror.
meddlecore
Clock is a particularly female-oriented horror film. So I'm not sure that I am the right person to be reviewing. As, in the film, we find ourselves following…
Clock is a particularly female-oriented horror film.
So I'm not sure that I am the right person to be reviewing.
As, in the film, we find ourselves following Ella (played by Dianna Agron), who is facing the ticking of her biological clock, and all the anxieties that come with it.
Doctors seem to think she suffers from a syndrome, that instills a deep seeded fear about having children within her.
So it doesn't help that she feels pressured to have children by her family and friends...not to mention, nature, itself.
As a result, she subjects herself to a series of grueling psychological tests, at an institute that is studying women with her condition.
A series of tests that force her to confront the underlying darkness that has prevented her from having children up until this point.
This darkness seems to be a trait inherited from cultural trauma, passed down through the generations.
A trauma relating to her Jewish ancestry, and the experience her family went through during WWII.
With these rigorous psychological tests bringing her underlying anxieties to the surface...in the form of a series of bizarre hallucinations.
Making the whole thing a psychological horror.
As this darkness starts to consume her life.
And affect her relationship with her friends.
Particularly the pregnant ones.
The name of the film comes a grandfather clock her father owns, which is her family's most prized heirloom.
Being the only thing they managed to salvage from the war.
So it, not only, symbolizes the pressure she feels to procreate...but might also harbour a dark supernatural force...which has been preventing her from wanting to bring children into such a broken world.
It all seems to be pretty straight forward, until they throw a bit of a twist in at the end.
Which solidifies her descent into madness.
A result of the manipulation she feels she is being put through.
Agron does an excellent job, portraying a woman spiraling out of control, as a result of the transition from potential motherhood, to being a crone.
Ultimately leading to the film's unexpected conclusion (even when the hints are there).
I see that this film has been garnering some rather harsh reactions - mostly, from male viewers.
But I don't think they are warranted.
Because it is both an entertaining, and engaging, film.
That held my attention throughout.
But don't take my word for it...cause I'm just a dude.
As only middle aged, and post menopausal, women can truly understand.
5.5 out of 10.
★ 4 / 10
Ella, you want kids. Now look at that tall woman, dead spiders and a clock.
chand-suhas
This Psychological horror about a woman running out on her biological clock and falling prey to the peer pressure to have a baby. She decides undergo an…
This Psychological horror about a woman running out on her biological clock and falling prey to the peer pressure to have a baby. She decides undergo an experimental study where she is promised to overcome her fears and fix her broken biological clock to ensure her pregnancy well by triggering her need to have a baby. The fear she has stems from her family's past and her own mindset where she feels just not ready yet. But is the procedure she signed up for, devoid of negative side effects? How does it impact her and her life forms rest of the story.
This is truly an intriguing concept and there are unsettling scenes. The problem is the pace is rather too slow and despite those key scenes which do work, the film as a whole simply doesn't. The peer pressure to have a kid is understandable but those scenes weren't established properly as Ella's dynamics with her friends wasn't etched well. The same thing happens with the family and much of it is told verbally. The unsettling scenes don't scare. The ending however was indeed good. Needed a much tighter narrative to leave an impact.
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She tries to fix her broken cock?