Beating
cr: Sundance Institute
Beating starting with introducing us to Molly (Cecelia Milocco) taking down a beach. His sweetheart is about to swim, when grief comes away from the screen. We will see her again after some time, now leaving the psychiatric ward. Molly is clearly plagued by the mysterious past tragedy and suffers a constant plague. However, Molly enters her new life, in her new apartment, with a subtle hope (if not painless).
And then the knocking begins.
First, an obnoxious but persistent knock. At times, difficult to set voices that come happily from above. Molly becomes increasingly precarious, pregnant by finding out where the knock came from – and fully believes that a woman, somewhere, is in danger.
Frida Kempff’s Beating a thrush attractive enough at 78 minutes slender, but even then it looks too thin to sustain even that length. The most successful element of the film is Milocco ‘s performance; Molly seems to be a character close to one note, written, a bunch of worries with very little else given to the audience to finalize the character. But Milocco succeeds in bringing a lot of joy and nuance to the role, adding complexity and a strong feeling to what could be a simplistic picture.
As Molly ‘s crackdown and scrutiny gets worse, the growing tension is largely due to Milocco’ s performance. At the same time, the elements of the study, which largely take place in its building, begin to feel claustrophobic and sparse as the film often settles into a re-structured structure. documentary – Molly hears a knock, examines a neighbor, rejects him, hears more knocking. , exploring different neighbors, etc.. It’s a series that makes the already slim script feel long at times.
The ending comes with an interesting twist, adding a novel proverb about lighting gas to the narrative as a whole and elevating the story as a whole. However, the ending could have gone on a slightly firmer basis if there had been a few more clumps, or if Molly’s multiple study had been a little more fruitful than the results.
All in all, Beating is that rare film where simplicity proves vice rather than influence. A little more nuance and outgoing and Molly could have proved a more rounded character with a more interesting study. (It should be reiterated that Milocco’s performance added a certain depth to a thinly written character, and should be commended). As it currently stands, Beating feels less like a full movie and more like a long short story, falling a little shorter than it could be.