The only place that life will take us is the grave. A deep, freshly dug hole from which no one can escape. Nobody at all. The plot tells about a group of young people in whose hands falls a strange coffin, which is nothing but a music box. As it later turns out, this wonderful musical instrument was built in the fifteenth century by a certain Wolfgang von Tristen, who is a kind of antipode of Leonard da Vinci, in the sense that his inventions were created at the rate of causing as much pain and suffering to people around him as possible. The coffin performed almost the same functions. He allowed a person to die for a certain period of time and see what was beyond the threshold of death. Or in our case, become a poltergeist. Young people, driven by curiosity, begin to experiment with this wonderful device, without giving themselves a count of what forces they awakened from sleep.
There are two undoubted advantages to this film. The first is the musical accompaniment, which with its oppressive motives makes the viewer anticipate an interesting and non-banal spectacle, at least if you believe the plot. The second undoubted advantage of the picture is the idea of music at low frequencies and what it does to the human mind. The fact is that this idea is not taken from the ceiling, and music at low frequencies can really cause irreparable damage to the human body. However, this requires acoustics stronger than the ever-memorable “coffin on wheels”. But this freedom can be attributed to the fact that this movie is still a mystical thriller, and in films of this genre there is no, no, but still some logical inconsistencies are visible.
I told you about the good things in the movie, and now I’ll get to the minuses. To begin with, these are the main characters. Not only did their actors play badly from the runes, so the characters of the characters do not cause absolutely any sympathy. Kyle is a dependent, a thief, a drug addict, and later a murderer. In short, he is a wonderful role model. His best friend is Sutton, a wheelchair-bound young man who dreams of the main character’s girlfriend, and hates the latter with every fiber of his soul. It's hard to blame him for hating Kyle. I only saw it for an hour and a half and I didn’t like it either. Sutton's been living with Kyle for a long time, poor man. Also in the film there is the girl of the main character - Julia, a young university professor named Platt (or is this name?), and a couple of drug dealers, but their characters are not even superficially disclosed, so you perceive them more as extras, not live characters. The next disadvantage is the morality that the creators are trying to impose the entire film on the viewer. This pseudo-moral resembles the ideas of John Kramer from the heptalogy Saw. Except the old man's ideas didn't work there and won't work here. For the simple reason that if a man has once stumbled and derailed his life, giving him a choice between life and death will not make him better. Only loving friends and family can help a person, and given Kyle's environment, I strongly doubt that he will change his bad habits in the future, and stop stealing. As for the logic of the behavior of the main characters, she locked herself in the toilet stall and the whole film shouted: “Leave me alone, please!”
Summing up, I want to say that, despite the oppressive music, the film is boring and very predictable. With rotten morals and bad acting. I wouldn’t recommend wasting your precious time on this movie, thank you.
2 out of 10
