Memoriam

The story of the film opens on a note which is quite opposite to the direction it is headed in. The several layers of the narrative, the secrets hidden in the shadows and the tension simmering just below the surface are revealed in a manner that demands the viewer's full attention, compelling them to participate in the story deeply. Without giving away the big reveal at the climax, a near-impossible task, one can only talk about the emotions it invokes - from a heightened sense of tension to guilt and regret. Of course it's the viewer's choice regarding where they locate themselves on this spectrum of emotions, while a man hides from an unsuspecting woman whose house he's perhaps broken into.

The woman, with an other-worldly, almost elven quality to her movements and body language, puts the viewer at unease the moment she begins a conversation with her imagined listener, an older brother.

The film wants to conjure an involving narrative that ropes in the idea of the normative familial space as well as what its distortion or flight from the ordinary could potentially mean for the members who constitute it. The dimly lit frames are conceivably supposed to be an echo of the darkness of the characters' mind as well as that of the acts they have or are about to commit. However, despite that, a better control on the lighting would have benefited the film, allowing it to be more than what it already is.