At 30 years old, Fred (Dylan O'Brien) is experiencing an identity crisis. After bumping into someone he met as a teenager, he begins to have terrifying flashbacks about a girl from his school who has disappeared. He realizes that the answer to this mystery may lie in a drug called Mercury and embarks on a journey into the past through the dimensions of his memory.
Flashback Effect is a completely different movie than the viewer and fans of Dylan O'Brien are used to. This isn't a fictional or logical thriller themed feature film that you expect with answers to every question the movie asks you.
On the contrary. Flashback Effect it's scary, with a disturbing psychological climate that addresses the reality we live in and why we got to that moment. Radically different from what you expect from psychological thrills, this work prompts you to ask questions and search inside yourself what held you back in your past and doesn't let you continue today.
Dylan O'Brien is very comfortable in this role and demonstrates how much he is an actor who is no longer promising and can now be ranked as one of the best today. With a performance in his role as Fred, who is seen nowadays married and starting a professional life, he ends up getting lost in his past, while also playing a teenager in his last year of high school.
Her performance shows how her suffering and loss of memory of a fact from the past is, in some points, more than tragic, as it transports the viewer to how he sees the world, instead of limiting him to just watching the events and saying the every instant “hey, do this”, “didn't you realize this is wrong?”.
The other actors are also doing well in their roles, but it's really Dylan who leads Flashback Effect, mainly because everything happens around you. In a few moments, the film even remembers a little Butterfly Effect, with an atmosphere of Blade Runner, mainly in the speech of the character of the girl that Fred is after, and a frantic search for Amnesia.
But this has a reason: they are all works that go beyond the psychological aspects of their characters, entering a world of feelings, existential emptiness, the search for who we are and our place in the world. But unlike all these movies of the genre, Flashback Effect wants to make you realize that the real problem in your life is not really your job, the person you live with, but what you left behind at some point in your history that you can't handle and never tried to understand.
It's not about solving, it's about understanding that in addition to you, the world is also made up of other people who are also in need of something they never managed to learn.
Flashback Effect is an excellent film, but if not well watched, it can cause confusion in the understanding of the work, as it happens in our lives.
The film is available from today, November 5th, for purchase and rent on digital platforms Claro Now, Amazon, Vivo Play, iTunes/Apple TV, Google Play and YouTube Movies. With distribution of Synapse Distribution, the feature can only be found in the subtitled version.
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