Disappeared in the forest because of a selfie on the lake... A less intriguing poster, a tolerable description, an amusing title – “Missing” can catch the viewer’s attention, but that’s all he can boast about. The film is directed by Raniet Marva, the author of mostly short films, who decided that he had already grown to a full meter. If you look at the timekeeping of the "Missing", which is a little more than an hour, you can be sure - Marva, if he has grown to a full meter, then just a little.
And if you overcome this hour, you can make sure that it would be better for the director to continue working on short films.
According to the plan, one friend disappears in the forest, and the other goes looking for him and encounters sinister things. In general - as usual in the paintings about all sorts of witches, sorcerers and terrible forest thickets. For seeding, the viewer is even fed the urban legend of Evil living in the forest, given as an example either a ritual or a curse that claimed many lives. In short, the story prepares the viewer for the fact that old grandmothers on broomsticks will flash on the screen ... But that's not happening.
The film is almost devoid of words - it sounds a few phrases, most of which relates to the same legend, after which you have for an hour to watch aimless wanderings through the forest. The legend itself looks sucked out of the finger, since in the future little is remembered about it (the appearance of a strange man in a mask does not count). What is happening on the screen, the viewer has to think for himself. Yeah, here's the search guy, looking at the missing person's photo, coming to the conclusion that he's at the lake. Yeah, so we have to move on. Yeah, here's his iPhone, so the search guy is on the right track.
The close-up is replaced by a general one, then again the camera focuses on the big man, from time to time the operator shoots the hero, then shows the foliage, branches, trees, some pond. From the point of view of the presentation of the picture, more precisely, there is no approach to the construction of the frame like questions. That's just the face of the main character and such natural plans there is nothing more to show. An hour without words and with such episodes mixed up - all that the director had enough imagination. It is clear that one character in the frame to talk with no one, but put on all this is not disturbing, and romantic music, you could decide that you included some amateur clip about how bristling guy walks in the woods and enjoys the beauty of nature. A kind of vanilla young man, who is still a status in social networks add – “I’m hard to find and easy to lose” and then that’s it. Basta. The movie was a success. More like a clip.
And finally, typical nitpicking in terms of the most ordinary things. Well, who goes in search (whether in the forest, in the mountains or in the desert) without banal means for being in the natural environment: where is the flashlight, where are matches, where is dry ration and mosquito spray in the end (irony)? How can you go looking for a missing friend in the woods in jeans and sneakers and not take anything else with you? Or the searcher also went for a walk in the woods for a music video in the style of "Here I go rustle foliage, but I hug birch"? Or was he sure he would find a friend in half an hour? But in this case, his lost friend could find a way out of the forest himself (if he is not a complete idiot).
Again, I repeat: the film looks like a clip, only very stretched. Extended obscenely hard. Surely his budget is zero - filmed with the help of what is at hand, as the entourage used their household things. In general, everything is done in artisanal conditions without unnecessary problems and diligence of the creators. There is no need to talk about acting - to show a guy taking a selfie (God, how cool it looks from the outside!) a lot of mind is not necessary.
But look at you. I do not impose my opinion on anyone.
Enjoy your visit.
1 out of 10