It arrived today, September 29 on Netflix, one of the most complicated works to be adapted for the screens: Dangerous Game.
At least that's what it looked like.
In the story, Gerald and Jessie Burlingame go to their summer home on a warm October day to enjoy a romantic moment that involves adult games. After being handcuffed in bed, Jessie participates in her husband's games, until the situation changes dramatically. She is left tied and alone with her painful childhood memories, a hungry stray dog, the voices in her mind, and possibly someone watching her from the dark corner of the room.
How many problems are there? And you have no idea! The film is not as dense as the book. The work written by Stephen King is heavy, tragic, with moments of disgust, fear, bringing repressed memories from the reader and questioning whether so many nightmares were not real.
Still, the film is fantastic! The adaptation was well done and its changes were more than right.
Carla Gugino delivers a striking character! Alone in most of her scenes or acting against herself, the actress gives an interpretation bath. The character's distressing moments are clear to those who watch. The audience will hardly find themselves biting their nails and after some scene, look at their nails and think twice if it really is the best attitude to do. Not always biting nails or hugging in this adaptation is the best option.
As in the book, the film takes you into total immersion with the characters. The narrative is strong, with punctual words and transitions between thoughtful scenes that do not leave you lost when she is thinking, delirious or in the present. The viewer is the character in the story itself.
Often seeing each character's desperate act, he will wonder if dying is not the best solution. However, living can also be. But it will be? There will be many unanswered “ifs”, only that bring you more and more questions.
And the awakening of nightmares from the past, intimate secrets kept even from her husband, will awaken and take her beyond what she thinks possible.
This film, like the book, does not deal with monsters hidden in closets or under the bed. It shows the real monsters that we see on a daily basis and around every corner. The one who with beautiful words tells you that "it is not your fault", but makes you feel guilty. The one who touches you in a way that seems to be right at that moment, only then you realize that the touch was not quite what you found.
Small games that are naive, can have a representativeness of evil that people do not want to believe, only that they exist. They are there and we prefer to stay in the dark.
The film addresses this issue very well. We let our monsters be giants. We increase it with each visit on our lonely nights. We can talk about them during the day, but at night, there alone, only with the light of a moon that should bring us peace, each shadow is a piece of something that just grows and feeds on us in a way that leads us to the despair.
Dangerous Game is an excellent adaptation of the book of the same name! A movie to watch at any time, because it is not the darkness outside that makes us afraid. It is the one within each of us.
And let the curtains go up! To the next!
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