Stoker

Being a fan of Park Chan-wook ,was pretty kicked up when i got to know he was going to direct his first Hollywood film.Park Chan Wook has said before that he decided to become a filmmaker after a watching Vertigo. From this we can make out that  Hitchcock (My favorite filmmaker) is an important influence on his work, especially the extent to which both filmmakers play with creating and shifting audience identification among different characters through plot twists and revealing selective bits of various information. In short Park pays homage to the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock and those who have seen Shadow of Doubt wouldn't find it hard to draw parallels.

Park Chan Wook didn't write this one at all. But I'd say he successfully implements his trademark style and dark,poetic feel for what might have otherwise been a forgettable psychological thriller from the creator of Prison Break (Wentworth Miller)

The story revolves around an 18-year-old India Stoker (Mia Wasikowska), whose father has died in a freakish car accident. His wife, Evie Stoker (Nicole Kidman), arranges for her mysterious brother-in-law Charlie (Matthew Goode) to stay with the family in order to help them recover the loss. India is skeptical of her uncle whom she hardly knows, and gets more suspicious and intrigued when rumors float around saying that he is having an affair with her own mom. To say anything more at this point would be spoiling the mystery behind this deceptive family who all have their fair share of skeletons in the closet.

It's a slow moody piece which creates both melancholic and terrifying atmosphere to the picture which made it fascinating.Many of the twists in the movie seemed telegraphed (though I'm not sure they aren't meant to be, in part, so as to conceal others we aren't expecting), but it certainly held my attention till the end. Acting is great from the cast: Mia Wasikowska does an exceptional job bringing India to life, Nicole Kidman is subtle and convincing on her part and Matthew Goode was good as weird and mysterious the whole time.

It's such a satisfaction to watch a film as directed as Stoker is.There's not a random image or sound anywhere to be found. Park Chan Wook is as his previous movies made it visually arresting. The sound work is expressionistic.Stoker is visceral experience,the cracks developing on hard boiled egg rolled back and forth on a the table,the pin prick of a needle bursting a blister-the park takes pleasure in it all,from beautiful to the grotesque . There's one similar effect in particular with a pencil sharpener that gave me goosebumps. I feel like seeing it twice for that particular scene to moment the craft alone. Movie also had its share of awkward portions,especially the high school scenes. The cinematography and sound design was very effective and immersive to capture the mood of the movie correctly.


For me this has to be one of the best American debuts in recent times of a popular foreign director.This psychological thriller Stoker is a beautiful, twisted and hypnotic.Go for it