So, the problem here is that I have not decided whether I like this or not. In general, it’s a positive sign that I saw this couple days ago and I still feel like I need to write about it, but at the same time, I’m not thinking about the message of the movie, I’m thinking about the filmmaking.
It’s hard to make a comedy out of a movie that starts with a husband slapping his wife just because, but it works.
Yes, the name of the movie is ‘MIS?’. No, as of this writing, it’s not on IMDb or LetterBoxd. That must be a big oversight by the distributor or production company and someone should do something about that. I like to check movies before I see them. The only reason I decided to see this was that it’s by an independent company. I like to see those out of interest. Sometimes quite morbid interest.
I couldn’t find an official English title for this, but if I had to give a translation, I wouldn’t really be sure what would be the best way to go, because the word ‘taito’ can have very different connotations. It could be ‘The Art of Screaming’ or ‘The Ability to Scream’, but the most precise would probably be ‘The Faculty to Scream’, but that might be a bit clumsy. I don’t know. Not my field, really.
I really don’t like the last of those options. That’s just a pretty forced aspect of the movie.
The sequel no-one asked for, but it’s actually pretty good.
First off, I had the opportunity to see a screening with Anna Eriksson, the director, introducing the film and having a Q&A session afterwards. I didn’t really know what to expect, but I did struggle through a horrific need to piss to hear her out, because she knew her shit. Also, I have been to such events previously and what was (gladly) missing from this one was the ego some of those people have regarding their work.
How can a game be so horrible and contrived, while I still want to 100% it?
Note: I have never played the original game, so I am not saying anything about that.
Two things first:
This is an early access game, so it is not complete. The current version is 0.9.0, so it might be getting close to release and I think most of the content is there, except that there hasn’t been a vampire anywhere, but I’m not sure that will even happen.
This is not a good game in my view, but I will still argue for it. Weird, huh.