Mò Shì Lù (2024)
Genre: Thriller
Duration: 125 minuten
Alternative titles: Stranger Eyes / 默视录
Country:
Singapore / France / Taiwan / United States
Directed by: Siew Hua Yeo
Stars: Chien-Ho Wu, Anicca Panna and Kang-sheng Lee
IMDb score:
6,2 (633)
Releasedate: 5 September 2024
Mò Shì Lù plot
After their two-year-old daughter disappears without a trace, Darren and Tara receive mysterious videos of their private lives. The couple manages to find the peeping tom, after which Darren now spies on the man himself. However, Darren is confronted with his spitting image.
Actors and actresses
Junyang
Lao Wu
Peiying
Shuping
Officer Zheng
Ling Po
Mother Wu
Ana
Reviews & comments
De filosoof
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- 2489 messages
- 1700 votes
From the outset, the film feels like a Hitchcockian thriller about a baby's mysterious disappearance, mysterious DWDs, and the parents' search for their child, with watching and being watched as themes in all their variations: from stalking and voyeurism to losing sight of your child while searching everywhere, thus watching, and from wanting to be seen to how we want to be seen (online) and the question of whether we actually see the "real" other. This typical Hitchcockian theme of peeping—with the added layer that the film viewer is also a kind of voyeur, watching people on the screen, while in the film those people are watching other people, but also watching themselves and being watched, even to the point of stalking the stalker—is naturally linked to today's surveillance society, where cameras are everywhere and everyone is being watched. In Bentham's Panopticon, criminals are spied on to keep them on the straight and narrow, but the film emphasizes two other aspects: if we watch others closely enough, we will sooner or later discover their sins (crimes). It also represents a society with few contacts, in which we can only observe others and, out of love, "guard" them with our gaze (as we do with our children).
In short, the theme is well-explored, and the thriller is quite exciting. The film is long, partly because of the long, somewhat strange coda, but mainly because it takes its time throughout and is therefore rather slow. Perhaps this is to encourage the viewer to watch carefully, but I don't immediately see what else it could offer, leaving you with the feeling that it's certainly not a bad film, but that it could have been more.
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mrklm
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- 11659 messages
- 10059 votes
Shortly after their daughter disappears without a trace, Junyang [Chien-Ho Wu] and Peiying [Anicca Panna] receive a DVD containing footage of them secretly filmed together or separately, with and without their daughter. This footage casts their relationship in a new light. The story takes a turn when it focuses on Lao Wu [Kang-sheng Lee], the man responsible for the footage and (therefore) possibly responsible for the kidnapping. A captivating premise, a sharp social critique of our obsession with film (social media and security cameras play prominent roles), and an original structure could have resulted in a masterful psychological drama if Hua Yeo had picked up the pace even a little.
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