Bound

The story of Bound is one marked by grief, pain, hurt, but above all, revenge. It is a glimpse of a person's unraveling into delirium, derangement and everything else they can lead to. When the film opens, we are introduced to a fairly inane image - a pair of hands and a card game. These visuals are mapped against classical piano notes, allowing the film almost an operatic feel. However, this further gives way to a sense of foreboding, like the events are building towards a crescendo, a tragedy.

The stillness of the house, its silence only broken by our protagonist's words of anger directed towards an unknown caller, establish and concretize this ominousness. The narrative has been honest in the portrayal of its intentions so far for the house has a dark secret, hidden deep in its cellar.

Our protagonist, the seemingly solitary occupant of this house, an old woman playing cards by herself or hanging up phone calls in fits of temper, holds a man captive in the basement, one who is responsible for the death of her husband. The plot reveals all of these details slowly and without fanfare, allowing the viewer to be lured into the story gradually and organically. It is in this quiet approach that the story's objectives are realized fully, allowing the final product to be a sincere engagement with a woman's desperate and disturbingly violent attempts to deal with her grief and loss.