Review of Transit

Transit (I) (2018)
3/10
Had a lot of things going for it but did not trust it's audience
4 November 2018
Throughout this movie I would find myself engrossed in the realistic emotional turmoil that the characters were going though. I loved that even though it was implied, they also never specifically said that it was a nazi regime and left the looming threat unnamed. The problem is found in the director or screenwriter's inability to trust the actors to show subtle emotion and for the audience to pick up on that emotion without it being spoon fed to us. I consistently found myself feeling for the characters in these tense emotional moment only for that feeling to be completely destroyed with annoyance at the narration that would start to dictate exactly what had just happened and what was currently happening on screen. Instead of completely spelling out what the audience was supposed to be feeling, the film would have been better off allowing it's audience to sit through those moments of silence and soundtrack to contemplate on the events being shown to us.
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