This new racy film on Amazon will seduce you with its unpredictability
A young couple find themselves becoming interested in the sex life of their neighbours across the street. What starts as innocent curiosity turns into an unhealthy obsession after they discover that one neighbour is cheating. Temptation and desire cause their lives to become tangled together, leading to deadly consequences.Curiosity killed the cat, the popular first part of a wise quote often touted by the elders when the youth start to question the world around them just a little too much.
The most striking feature of this film is its cinematography, already starting with an eerily poetic montage of eyes, moving into short close-ups obsessed with the physicality of its characters, building sexual drama with each sequence. Paired with incredible lighting and maybe leaning a little too hard into its metaphors, you would have easily been fooled into thinking this is more an art film than a cheap streaming movie, somewhat at odds with its more late Saturday-night soft-core content.
One scene especially stood out, when the lead character - played by Sydney Sweeney - is giving an eye exam to the spied-on wife, and the whole scene just left you electrically charged with superb editing. At first, I thought it was a bit on the nose to make the lead an optometrist, but the filmmaker uses it quite effectively in the plot, where every writing decision is very deliberate and thought out.
That being said, the director/writer Michael Mohan seemed to be at odds with himself, stuck between creating a sublimely visual art piece and a generic erotic thriller for the Amazon machine that will pull in audiences with sex. He was like a cook experimenting with ingredients, and his hand slipped when it came to the seasoning.
As for the cast, they are an attractive group of people, and they know how to use this for maximum impact. Not that any other man with abs or woman with doe eyes couldn't have easily played these roles, but you had enough meat to satiate the performances between Sweeney, Ben Hardy and Natasha Liu Bordizzo. I just could not understand what Justice Smith was doing, though, especially with his voice.
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