“Together” is the terror of the body that is missing when changing the bizarre for excessive explanations

Film with the couple Alison Brie and Dave Franco have their moments, but never reaches the promised peak

Just at the most fragile moment of marriage, Tim (Dave Franco) and Millie (Alison Brie) Must change. He did not enter music as he imagined and she had to accept a job inside as a teacher. Once they move, the feeling is that they are increasingly distant and less married. This is where something strange begins: after an accident on a track, their bodies begin to stay. Literally.

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This is the unusual story of Togetherterror that hit the cinemas on Thursday 14. Direct and written by Rookie Michael ShangsOnly with shorts in the curriculum, the film undeniable air from David Cronenberg. As Julia Ducournau did Titan and Coralie Fargeat in The substanceThe director approaches the cinema of Moscow AND Gemini: morbid similarity By positioning these bodies that stick, attack, they enter each other. Tim and Millie try to get away, but a strange force brings them closer.

The terror of proximity

When the script works in this way, with the two characters trying to understand what is happening and desperate with their blocked bodies, Together It approaches a new genius, typical of those who are just starting in the cinema. Franco and Brie, who are a couple in real life, wash chemistry – necessary even when they are two external characters. After all, the pain of separation is even greater when they love and respect each other and, in a disconcerting way, can easily put it on the screen.

So you understand the drama of both characters, take the proposal and become anguished. After all, immersed Body horrorThis underborn of terror that usually speaks of transformations or deformity of the body, Together Causes a real disgust in various scenes. With a good work of practical effects, the feature can be in the same space as Jeff Goldblum in the closest phases of a fly or, in the most recent example, in the final scenes of The substance. More than a terror of fears, which are almost absent here, Shangs’ film wants to generate a sense of disgust, disgust or even despair.

The intention of Together Speaking of this separation that never happens, this end is postponed. The characters try to leave, but they cannot – there is a more obvious, but still very good scene, in which Millie takes the car, disappears and Tim enters a violent trance, with the inert body beating the wall, trying to accompany his wife. THE Body horror It works precisely sometimes when you want to talk about the unknown and what seems to go against human nature. A forced relationship that died and insists on existence, it adapts strangely well in this scenario.

Involuntary comedy

A pity, however, that many of the genius of Cronenberg is missing in this first Shangs film. The father of Body horror Never try to explain anything in your films. The bizarre happens – and period. Already in TogetherThe script is always trying to manage the explanations. They cannot simply stick to a force for beyond.

Shangs gives too many responses to a film that requires, above all, to detach from the reality. The void of palpable reasons would make everything more terrifying. The answers are undermining the general horror of history and, in the end, transform it into something almost comic.

The last scene of Together It is a perfect example of this desperate need for explanations that simply do not work on terror. Without going into details to avoid spoiler, it is time for the greatest visual impact, when we finally understand the consequences of this union of bodies.

Instead of making the bizarre suspended in the air, allowing each spectator to create his own version of what has happened, Shanks decides to deliver everything to chew. The result is one of the most involuntarily comic sequences of the year, which leaves the audience divided between nerve laughter and disappointment.

Together Stumble on the legs when she is afraid of completely embracing the absurd. For those who seek intransigent entertainment and love to go to group cinema to have fun with bizarre and uncomfortable scenes, he will surely play his role.

But don’t expect to firm up like the great horror film of the year, especially when we do it Sinners AND The time of evil. Together It looks like a smaller experience: you will laugh, sometimes you feel disgusted and remember one or two disturbing images. Already all those useless explanations that have become annoyed so much during the film? These will disappear from memory even before returning home.

Source: Terra

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