Apr 26, 2012

DOROTHY MILLS (Agnès Merlet, 2008)

People are so much egotistic and they tend to try to achieve their happiness without caring about how much they can hurt someone or not. This movie is a very well example of this. Dorothy Mills (Jenn Murray)is a young complicated girl who is accused for having killed a little baby. Nevertheless, the investigation is quite difficult because she is said to suffer some mental problems and that is why a psychiatrist is sent to her village in orther to study Dorothy. There, some odd things happen, which keep the audience in suspense during the whole movie. Dorothy is available to talk with three dead youngs who died in a fatal "accident" that at the end of the movie is discovered. Moreover, this young lady is used by these three people's parents in orther to talk with their relatives so Dorothy gets possessed in so many times.
From my point of view, the use of ligths, shadows and even the composition of the scenes is wonderful so that the spectator feel worried and waiting for what is going to happen next. I do not think this is really a horror film, it is more about suspense and so on even though the make-up of the girl and the strange happenings may disturb the spectator. Anyway, the story itself is quite sad and has made me think about how selfish people are because this film could be considered as well a kind of metaphor of life.

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