1. REVIEW are drawn to the leading character,
‘IGNORANCE IS BLISS’ Rose, as her thoughts push her from
believing into disbelief into madness
and back again.
Suspicious thoughts are fed through
We’ve all heard of conspiracy your mind whilst watching this film,
you could even say it feels like Richard
theories about near anything and
everything the government does from Donner’s ‘Conspiracy Theory’, just
faking the very first moon landing to without the helicopters and budget and
man-made Earthquakes. However, this stars and Manhattan surroundings.
film focuses on terrorism in the What it has instead, is a much more
middle-east and whether or not realistic, suspicious theme that simply
America has knowingly caused it to builds and builds...
worsen or has in fact purposely created
it in the first place.
At a seemingly ordinary school, one
student is randomly picked to be a test
subject for an experiment hosted by
mysterious forces, which result in the
student becoming increasingly agitated
and confused in her struggle to realise
the truth.
The music presented in this film is
There’s something about the way something to shiver about. Making
director Kirsty Hardy has established what might otherwise seem a typical
the atmosphere in this film. The music ‘nightmarish’ film into a trail of
creeps into your nerves as you watch anxiety and expectation. whoever
the first few minutes, creating a near watches will feel nervous, despite the
instant feeling of paranoia and fact that the film has only been running
creepiness that can not be ignored, as for less than a minute.
Rose Price (Becca Newton) is lead into
the ‘test room’ by the seemingly Whatever the truth may or may not be,
‘normal’ teacher. it is clear that this little film provides a
thrilling, thought provoking and creepy
Rose Price is the victim of what seems atmosphere that people are sure to talk
to be an experiment conducted by about afterwards in heated debate over
government agents who had planned dinner.
for Rose to become a more patriarchal
citizen in an attempt to regain trust and
support for war in Iraq (and
government plans as a whole). Well,
that somewhat backfires, when she
begins to think the opposite of what
they hoped. This causes her to become
paranoid and confused. It is at this
point where we also get sucked into
the maddening world of in-between
fake and real media. Our sympathies