2013 Directed by Park Chan-wook
After India's father dies, her Uncle Charlie, who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother. She comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives and becomes increasingly infatuated with him.
欲谋, 私房吓, Tajemství rodiny Stokerů, 스토커, 慾謀
Does for belts, sand castles, staircases, pianos, pencils, pencil sharpeners, ice cream, freezers, phone booths, shoes, duck hunts, dinner, garden shears, shovels, metronomes, and showers what Psycho did for showers.
At 98 minutes, this is my dream length of movie. I have said it all my life.
After leaving this screening, and using the facilities, I could quite easily have jumped straight back in to watch the whole movie again. That doesn't happen to me often.
Stoker is phenomenal.
It's as dreamy as it is taught. As beautiful as it is horrific. It's The Tree of Life with A screenplay. An outstanding screenplay at that. It has been said that the director Park Chan-Wook has made a Hitchcock movie. You can't make a Hitchcock movie without a Hitchcock screenplay, and Wentworth Miller and Erin Cressida have made one. It's my favourite scenplay in recent memory. It keeps enough under wraps…
Tonight, India joins the hunt.
Gothic, surreal, unsettling, and of course, tremendously gorgeous. Not surprising since I expect nothing less from the master Park Chan Wook. A frame is always connected to the next, transition between scenes are so smooth they're almost invisible. Every shot seems to have a life of its own. Instead of being a medium to carry the plot, they gracefully became the story itself. Mia Wasikowska gave her best and so does everyone else. Without a single doubt, I say Stoker is as good as an English debut gets.
Park Chan-wook has never been afraid to go there with his work. Stoker, his first English language feature film, is yet another prime example of his flair for capturing the taboo.
Stoker is a gorgeously shot coming-of-age story about a young woman realizing, and eventually accepting, that insanity runs deep in her blood. The adult leads, Evelyn (Nicole Kidman) and Charlie (Matthew Goode), are conventionally beautiful and complex -- their outward appearances so meticulously crafted that no one would ever suspect the darkness lurking inside of them.
India (Mia Wasikowska), on the other hand, lets her strangeness show. She wears old-fashioned clothing and is bullied at school by chauvinistic boys. Her Uncle Charlie, who mysteriously appears after the death of…
things Stoker invented:
- the word "hello"
- freezers
- blood splatter
- slow fades
- piano duets
- garden shears
- visual ingenuity
- saddle shoes
(this film only gets better and better when you rewatch it)
India, who are you?
This one quite a visual experience. Well-shot, good soundtrack, great acting, set design pretty great. Mixed feeling about the script, but strong enough to keep it enjoyable.
the piano duet scene, the editing, india at the end realizing she is like her uncle and doesn't repress that anymore, the photography in question IT IS ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL FILM I'VE EVER WATCH.
Se tem uma coisa que me dá nos nervos, que real me deixa puto num filme é ele me tratar como idiota. Vai a merda com a tua incessante autoexplicação.
Mas se fosse só isso que eu odiei nesse filme. Vi gente fazendo review dizendo que as atuações são boas. Pelo amor de deus como essa iCarly sem sal tá horrível nesse filme. Ficar parada sem expressão virou boa atuação agora? A Nicole Kidman faz a mesma personagem desde Eyes Wide Shut, que no caso é ela mesma. E o outro maluco é mais plano que um prato.
Nem mesmo um senso de mistério a porra do filme consegue construir, quanto mais um thriller psicossexual que de propõe a fazer.
E a direção é só um monte de foto bonita que não agrega nada a absolutamente nada.
Eu queria que tivesse alguma coisa que se salvasse desse filme, mas não consigo pensar em nada.
A pretty good story, elevated expenentionally by world class cinematography and direction.
Goth gf Mia Wasikowska 🙌🏻
Hungkat 500 films
Essential movies for lonely people out there (like me) if you want to feel something in this big big world.…
Jack 408 films
Films that leave you visibly shaken; masterclasses in building tension that make you truly feel anxious for whatever is happening…
Darren Carver-Balsiger 788 films
Pessimistic worldviews. For when you want to wallow in despair.
It doesn't matter if we all die.
Suggestions welcome.
