Déjame salir

Excelente, excelente, excelente, una de las sorpresas más agradables de este año. Tal vez lo etiquetaría como un verdadero thriller psicológico, pero eso es sólo un detalle. La atmósfera está muy bien construida, el desenlace es delicioso y el final más que satisfactorio. Un pulgar hacia arriba de verdad. (30.10.2017)

¿150 millones de dólares en cines de Estados Unidos con un presupuesto de menos de 5 dólares? Jason Blum es un campeón. Y obviamente ha llegado el momento de nuevos talentos afroamericanos de dirección. Por su atmósfera, Déjame salir está cerca de Stephen King y, si se basara en su obra, sería una de sus mejores adaptaciones cinematográficas. Un esquema de género de terror psicológico, tan intensa y audazmente basada en el tema sensible del racismo, que da escalofríos. Perfectamente dirigida, con una penetración social inteligente, que funciona tanto como la tensión entre personajes como los elementos puramente de género (sustos, tensión creciente con trucos de imagen). Si tuviera un final más perspicaz, sería una obra que con su precisión llegaría al nivel de la famosa trilogía de Shyamalan. [ArcLight Santa Monica] (30.03.2017)

The film features excellent screenwriting and above all directing, with a strange white panopticon, a properly soaked racist mindset, and above all the insistent feeling of "what the fuck...?". The intensity, where you pray that the plot will keep moving and you will learn a little more, works mainly because the protagonist maintains a rational approach throughout and the plot never once allows him to slip into a genre crutch. Moreover, this is brilliantly caricatured by the character of the best friend, who both introduces and breaks down traditional creative practices by commenting on upcoming events over the phone. It's terribly simple and yet perfectly thought out and embellished in detail, a work of art straight out of a magazine. 4 ½. (20.07.2017)

The completely reversed view of racism caused that Get Out is one of the most interesting thrillers that I have seen recently. Racist hatred created a very strong story here – and it’s best that you know as little as possible about it before watching. That way, you will be really surprised and at the same time you will feel suspense with every passing minute, which will make your experience of the movie even stronger. On top of that, I have to add that Daniel Kaluuya made a very interesting impression on me. We’ll see what other movies he comes up with in the future. (15.12.2017)

Good, but I think that it’s been way overhyped in America as a result of the racial tone, which resonates more across the pond than in here. What’s interesting, though, is that in the film itself, the racial lines are not that broad and the “raciscm” of the villains is rather superficial. What I find thought-provoking is the controversy about whether the villains make instruments out of the blacks simply because of racism, or because. in many aspects (at least in some cases), they consider them better. But I’m not sure whether that controversy is intentional or whether the script is not entirely clear on what it wants to say. The basic concept is pretty cheesy, certainly more than I had expected. There’s also less horror than I had expected, and more comedy. The comedic moments, in particular, were pretty irritating. I have nothing a priori against comedy elements in horror, but here they clearly disrupted the paranoid atmosphere (laughter doesn’t go very well with it) and, to my taste, the humour was very simple, though effective. Instead of that, I would have welcomed a broader explanation of the mechanism of what is actually happening to those black people, because the film addresses it only very roughly, to the point that it gave me a messy impression. And I was also slightly disappointed that it was missing a surprising moment. Yeah, the premise overall is original, but the plot moves within relatively predictable lines – I figured out the one relatively big twist ten minutes in advance. Things should have got moving after that, but instead, they were over pretty quickly. The comment may sound too critical, but that’s because I was really convinced I was going to see the best horror film in recent years. Not even by chance, but it is certainly a good film. Edit: After the second viewing my quibbles have disappeared. It’s awesome! The explanations of the events turned out to be enough and the second time you can really enjoy those little nuances in the performances that show that the whole thing is excellently thought-out. (28.04.2017)