7/10
Bait & Switch
7 April 2023
Warning: Spoilers
This is one of those films that you can't really watch half-heartedly because you will actually miss some quite subtle points. In fact, I missed a number of those subtle points as well. The funny thing is that this film pretends to be linear, but as you get to the end you realise that it actually isn't. You are also lead to believe that two characters are in fact a single character, but some hints are dropped that this is not the case.

So, the film is about this girl that was kidnapped at a young age, and fifteen years later she manages to escape. We then have a pyschologist interviewing her in her hospital room while a private detective is out and about attempting to find out who the kidnappers are. Apparently the thing is that he, like a lot of others, wrote this case off years ago, and now that he is nearing the end of his life, he decides that he has to tie up the lose ends.

As I think about it, this film was actually really well done, particularly with the case that it tricks you into believing a number of things, such as two different rooms being the same, and two different people being the same. Honestly, I've probably given away too much of this film anyway, but at least I have marked it as having spoilers. However, it is one of those films that you certainly don't want to give anything away until after you watched it (at which point you want to find post that basically explains what you just watched).

Yeah, this is a pretty good film, and as I mentioned, it isn't one that you watch in the background because you will no doubt miss some very imported things. Yeah, it's definitely one that I would recommend.
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