Steven Soderbergh’s spooky new movie has more than one surprise up its sleeve.
, Steven Soderbergh’s latest, is a tight 85-minute family story set in a single absolutely gorgeous foursquare suburban house. In the first scene of the film, a real estate agent sells the property to hard-driving businesswoman Rebecca , who cares mostly about whether it’s in the right school district. The family—Rebecca, good dad Chris , callow jock Tyler , and withdrawn, grieving daughter Chloe —moves in, and slowly falls apart.
The Presence watches Chloe closely, like a guard dog, but seems also to dwell on her mother: how little she gives Chloe, how often she’s on her laptop and her phone, how obsessed she is with her son and his many successes. We’re judging this bad mother, but so is the ghost. Chloe believes that the Presence is her recently deceased friend, because of the way it acts, and “Nadia is the Presence” becomes the red herring that seems plausible until the very end of the film.
Some scenes provoke the Presence. When Ryan and Chloe are hooking up, it hides in her closet, as if it’s ashamed to see. When Tyler boasts to his parents about a shitty prank he and his friends played on a girl at school, the Presence angrily trashes his room. The first time Ryan drugs Chloe’s drink, the Presence reaches out and shakes the table, until her glass of OJ falls to the ground.
,” said Soderbergh to an interviewer who asked him whether he considered this film to fit in the genre. “The fact that there’s no blood in, and no real jump-scares—it’s not designed that way—makes me wonder if that’s the right term. … We call it a ghost movie; I guess that’s accurate.”) I jumped because, like Rebecca, I was putting everything together and realizing I’d been a fool.
“Inside you is a good man, and I can’t wait to see him come out,” Chris counsels Tyler earlier in the film, in a bit of foreshadowing, as he scolds his son for being unkind to his grieving sister.is about the last remaining energy of a person coming together to be the “good man” that Tyler never got to be. For parents trying to keep their children safe until they’re better at decisionmaking,
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