There's no explanation as to what is actually going on.
This annoying Woman leaves the US during Covid to escape the lockdown, and heads to the UK, where we were still locked down, so that aspect of the 'story' makes no sense.
So then she annoys her friend and his girlfriend, steals his car, ends up being paid to take this Woman to a friends, and then the film really starts making no sense.
It transpires this Woman has some kind of 'super powers', great strength, able to levitate, able to instil absolutely no fear in the viewer. Most of what happens is impossible to make out, since of course we're seeing everything via the camera, and this is one of the major flaws of these 'found footage' films. We're then meant to believe that the character(s) have the same view of the World as we have through their camera(s), this of course is complete nonsense to anyone with any sense, or anyone who has used a smartphone .
There's one scene in particular which highlights this all too obvious flaw.
Our overly annoying heroine and her friend are standing face to face in a theme park, we're seeing the scene from his perspective(well, his cameras perspective), she rips the camera out of his hand, turns it to face him, and we're hit with one of the many attempts at a 'jump scare', as the 'possessed' Woman is standing right next to the friend... Now, how could this annoying character not see this women without the aid of the camera??
These events happen all too often in these found footage films, and i think, for me, that's one of the worst aspects of them. People simply don't act, or react normally in these films, so why bother making them?? Just make a standard film.
You also always get those scenes where they're fleeing for their very lives, they trip, their camera spills out of their hand, landing several feet away in heavy undergrowth, the 'bad guy' is right on their tail. What do they then do? Do they, get up ASAP, and run for their lives? No, they get up, and rummage around looking for their camera, just to ensure they get their grizzly death caught on shaky, blurry footage.
This film almost goes that stage further. The 'annoying one' has her phone in a clip, attached to her cap. Incredibly, she never, throughout all the panic, clambering through trees, and pipe, almost drowning in a sinking car, loses her phone, the clip, or her cap. It really is remarkable.
Another fail in this film is a characters inability to drive a car further than 100 yards before careering off the road, and hitting the only tree/pylon around. Three cars were wrecked by this Woman in the last 20 minutes of the film. Just drive!!!
Found footage films should be done away with, we're even being drowned in 'laptop' found footage films. You have to be very skilled at film making to make a good one.
By far the best first person/found footage film i've seen, was the original 'Rec'. That's how these films should be made, not like this one. This one is a mess. There's no storyline as such, there's absolutely no explanation as to what this 'parasite' was, where it came from. I get the impression we're meant to take it as a metaphor for Covid, that's my best guess.
I can only suggest avoiding this film, sadly. It is truly awful.
This annoying Woman leaves the US during Covid to escape the lockdown, and heads to the UK, where we were still locked down, so that aspect of the 'story' makes no sense.
So then she annoys her friend and his girlfriend, steals his car, ends up being paid to take this Woman to a friends, and then the film really starts making no sense.
It transpires this Woman has some kind of 'super powers', great strength, able to levitate, able to instil absolutely no fear in the viewer. Most of what happens is impossible to make out, since of course we're seeing everything via the camera, and this is one of the major flaws of these 'found footage' films. We're then meant to believe that the character(s) have the same view of the World as we have through their camera(s), this of course is complete nonsense to anyone with any sense, or anyone who has used a smartphone .
There's one scene in particular which highlights this all too obvious flaw.
Our overly annoying heroine and her friend are standing face to face in a theme park, we're seeing the scene from his perspective(well, his cameras perspective), she rips the camera out of his hand, turns it to face him, and we're hit with one of the many attempts at a 'jump scare', as the 'possessed' Woman is standing right next to the friend... Now, how could this annoying character not see this women without the aid of the camera??
These events happen all too often in these found footage films, and i think, for me, that's one of the worst aspects of them. People simply don't act, or react normally in these films, so why bother making them?? Just make a standard film.
You also always get those scenes where they're fleeing for their very lives, they trip, their camera spills out of their hand, landing several feet away in heavy undergrowth, the 'bad guy' is right on their tail. What do they then do? Do they, get up ASAP, and run for their lives? No, they get up, and rummage around looking for their camera, just to ensure they get their grizzly death caught on shaky, blurry footage.
This film almost goes that stage further. The 'annoying one' has her phone in a clip, attached to her cap. Incredibly, she never, throughout all the panic, clambering through trees, and pipe, almost drowning in a sinking car, loses her phone, the clip, or her cap. It really is remarkable.
Another fail in this film is a characters inability to drive a car further than 100 yards before careering off the road, and hitting the only tree/pylon around. Three cars were wrecked by this Woman in the last 20 minutes of the film. Just drive!!!
Found footage films should be done away with, we're even being drowned in 'laptop' found footage films. You have to be very skilled at film making to make a good one.
By far the best first person/found footage film i've seen, was the original 'Rec'. That's how these films should be made, not like this one. This one is a mess. There's no storyline as such, there's absolutely no explanation as to what this 'parasite' was, where it came from. I get the impression we're meant to take it as a metaphor for Covid, that's my best guess.
I can only suggest avoiding this film, sadly. It is truly awful.