The Moth Diaries
Director:
Mary HarronGuión:
Mary HarronCámara:
Declan QuinnMúsica:
Lesley BarberReparto:
Lily Cole, Sarah Bolger, Scott Speedman, Valerie Tian, Judy Parfitt, Melissa Farman, Sarah Gadon, Anne Day-Jones, Kathleen Fee, Gia Sandhu, Deena Aziz (más)Sinopsis(1)
Rebecca, a young girl haunted by her father's suicide, begins her junior year at an elite girls boarding school, hoping for a fresh start. From the outset, her friendship with sunny, innocent Lucy is shattered by the arrival of Ernessa, a mysterious, dark and beautiful girl from Europe. As Ernessa consumes more and more of Lucy's attention, the latter's healthy young body grows pale, thin and weak - as if being drained of life itself. Her friendship with Lucy slipping away, Rebecca develops a crush on her handsome English professor, Mr. Davies, who is teaching a course on supernatural literature.Obsessed with "Carmilla", the vampire story that inspired Bram Stoker's "Dracula", she grows increasingly suspicious of Ernessa's odd behavior and Lucy's wasting illness, and when mysterious deaths shock the school, becomes convinced that Ernessa is a vampire. Rebecca finds herself isolated when the other girls dismiss her suspicions as mere jealousy and Mr. Davies betrays her trust. As Lucy's inexplicable illness turns deadly, Rebecca is left alone to battle with Ernessa for the life of her friend. (Wild Bunch Distribution)
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At first, it seems like it could be a horror set in an intriguing environment, with emphasis on atmosphere, but in the end, it turns out to be just a pseudo-young adult romance, which also didn't quite work out. The characters are seemingly interesting at first glance but are otherwise boring and flat, just like the story, which quickly becomes tedious.
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Empty crap that relies on the gothic vampire mythology (the film says that every vampire story has three attributes: sex, blood and death, but here the sex is only insinuated, the blood is everywhere in only one dream sequence and there aren’t too many deaths, either) and that wants to be self-aware psychological horror (describing the relationship between two friends who become estranged due to a supernatural creature that controls one of them), but that in the end only causes the indifference of the viewer, at best, and laughter, at worst. Moth Diaries doesn’t work on any level, the dialogues are toe curling, the actors are wooden and there’s no atmosphere. I expected something slightly above-par, what I got was conceited crap that I will try to forget soon (which, I believe, won’t be much trouble). PS: The only interesting thing in the film is the look of the main “moth”, it’s really nasty.
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