Movie of the Day: Sleepless Beauty (2020) * This Russian film was released online in Poland on June 29, 2020. * This film was originally titled Ya ne splyu in its native Russian. * This was the fourth and most recent film of director Pavel Khvaleev. - ThreadSky

vasuri.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Movie of the Day:

Sleepless Beauty (2020)

* This Russian film was released online in Poland on June 29, 2020.

* This film was originally titled Ya ne splyu in its native Russian.

* This was the fourth and most recent film of director Pavel Khvaleev.

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vasuri.bsky.social•1 day ago

Building upon last night’s theme of Saw-like captivity horror, tonight we roll with this Russian entry. Mila is a normal enough gal leading a seemingly normal life. However, it doesn’t take long before she finds herself the subject of something rather sinister.

vasuri.bsky.social•1 day ago

Mila has been kidnapped by a mysterious organization known as Recreation. She has become the unwilling star of a dark web livestream in which people watch her on cam as she is subjected to endurance torture and prohibited from sleeping.

vasuri.bsky.social•1 day ago

The extremity of the challenges Mila faces ratchets up the longer they go on for, and that’s where films like this are bound to polarize. Some will love the anticipation of waiting to see what they do to her next, and others will be mortified by it.

vasuri.bsky.social•1 day ago

One of my favorite elements was the inclusion of the reactions in the chat of those who witness the horrific experience Mila endures. Their comments ring true to the herd mentality reality that surrounds us every day, and it’s on display here like the grotesquerie that it is.

vasuri.bsky.social•1 day ago

I really liked the visual aspects of the film and think Khvaleev did an excellent job of mixing things up and keeping the movie interesting to look at. The plot twist was inventive and the animations perfectly nightmarish. I very much enjoyed this film.

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