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USA 2010
Director: Måns Mårlind, Björn Stein
Cast: Julianne Moore, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jeffrey DeMunn, Frances Conroy, Nathan Corddry, Joyce Feurring
Rating: R
Release Date: 9 July 2011 (Indonesia)
Running Time: 1 hour 52 minutes
The Movie Review
Last night I didn't give a darn care of what movie to watch as long as I could sit back and relax inside the comfy studio. It took me three days watching a horrible horrible horror film called Jaws in Japan (2010) and actually I haven't finished it yet :-| Initially we also wanted to see Green Lantern and Justice League Defenders of the Earth show in Gandaria City shopping centre in South Jakarta but a broken big buss blocked the traffic and succesfully wrecked our schedule. Already tired, we humoured ourselves with eating a big portion of Chinese food while waiting for the Shelter midnight show at 22:15. Last night was the premiere of Shelter in Indonesia and the studio was half full.
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Be Advided, minor spoilers are inevitable :-)
 Green Lantern event in Gandaria City from 6-24 July 2011.
I took the picture at 00:10 AM
Julianne Moore stars as an credible and intelligent forensic psychiatrist named Cara Harding who doesn't believe in a pathologic disease called multiple personality. Her father offers her to investigate a mysterious case of multiple personality of a man named Adam/David (Jonathan Rhys Meyers). From the outside Adam looks normal and meek but once he is asked to "bring out" his other self, David, he turns violent and disturbingly aggresive. Cara tries to dismiss every weird facts about Adam's knowledge of the real David, thinking that everything Adam knows about the real David is just mere coincidences. But once confronted with David's real family, David/Adam can reveal something very private that only David's family knows. Apparently there is something far more sininister and wicked behind these multiple personality because everytime David/Adam changes into other personalities, every one of them is murder victim! Who is David/Adam really? And why is he having this such disturbing personalities?
I don't know whether it's me who's already somehow immune to horror movies but I couldn't find myself fully enjoy this flick. It's not boring as to make you want to snore but it made me feel indifferent of the story. All I care is to see how the writer concludes the movie. I was actually rather confused to pinpoint the exact flaw because considering myself came to the cinemas with fairly low expectation. Usually a horror movie will create scary images or disturbing thoughts in your mind that will keep on lingering for some time, but I didn't experience it. My wife did though, probably because she's not that huge of a horror fan. I guess, the more you see horror movies, the less scarier they become to you. Or is it probably because Shelter tries to mix supernatural with psychological horror? Although it blends quite well, but the result is not that shocking. The ending is creepy though and the story is quite original or at least not many of them in the movie market nowadays.
Nevertheless, I still recommend this for casual moviegoers. The pacing is tight and the story is actually intriguing. I actually envy this type of movie, it employs story so usual and familiar with the lives of Indonesians, but why couldn't Indonesian filmmakers make more movies like Shelter? Anyhow, if there is one thing that I should give credit for, it's the overall acting performance of all the cast. Most notably Joyce Feurring (as The Grandma) who steals the scene every time she's on screen and of course Jonathan Rhys Meyers with his highly convincing and splendid acting as multiple people dwelve in one body!
> For the time being (early July 2011), just stick to : Ladda Land (2011) and Insidious (2011).
© iwan pranowo of Movielogy.com
Twitter: @movielogy
posted: Sunday, 10 July 2011 02:02 pm
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