Having read other reviews people complain the movie is pointless, that it hints and sways this way and that but never delivers.
I would say that this is exactly why I liked the movie. At the beginning it suggests something sinister is happening with the man on the highway with the lizard and the peculiar village woman with accusations of lizards eating brains. By the end of the movie none of our suspicions about the village are totally confirmed or denied. The bit in where she is asleep in the shed on camera and the lizard is on her shoulder she falls out of shot before it is confirmed that it did anything to her.
In American films all our suspicions would be confirmed our curiosity would be satisfied by the end of the film, all the boxes ticked. American films only offer open ends to let you know they are making a sequel. This kind of obvious story telling is for teenagers.
I found the story of Obaba refreshing, it played on our paranoid fantasies, and allowed us to turn Obaba into something it wasn't. It was in fact a very mature bit of film making, and it was nice to watch a film that wasn't completely predictable from beginning to end. It could have all too easily turned into a zombie film about villagers getting their brains eaten by telepathic super lizards, but then Hollywood has that covered.
I would say that this is exactly why I liked the movie. At the beginning it suggests something sinister is happening with the man on the highway with the lizard and the peculiar village woman with accusations of lizards eating brains. By the end of the movie none of our suspicions about the village are totally confirmed or denied. The bit in where she is asleep in the shed on camera and the lizard is on her shoulder she falls out of shot before it is confirmed that it did anything to her.
In American films all our suspicions would be confirmed our curiosity would be satisfied by the end of the film, all the boxes ticked. American films only offer open ends to let you know they are making a sequel. This kind of obvious story telling is for teenagers.
I found the story of Obaba refreshing, it played on our paranoid fantasies, and allowed us to turn Obaba into something it wasn't. It was in fact a very mature bit of film making, and it was nice to watch a film that wasn't completely predictable from beginning to end. It could have all too easily turned into a zombie film about villagers getting their brains eaten by telepathic super lizards, but then Hollywood has that covered.