By Robert Scucci | Published
What to do A classic horror story,, The conferenceAnd Oxygen All have in common? These are all Netflix Non -English Originals produced abroad that I want more people to know. Listen, I know that the English dubbing does not move properly, and the subtitles may seem to be a chore, but the same goes Reducedwhich is essentially a 92 -minute advertisement for Olive Garden and Butterfingers pretending to be a horror film for adolescents.
OxygenOne of the best science fiction films that I have seen for a very long time, maybe a film in French, but you will be so aspired in its naked history and its claustrophobic setting that you do not even realize that you read the dialogue of the screen, which forces you to pay particular attention, which will not make you impossible to escape the uncomfortable atmosphere that you make you turn into its audience.
An uncomfortable experience all around
As someone with a stomach for the most gorded horror films, Oxygen Has struck me because I am a claustrophobic, and adding the vast nothingness of the deep space to the equation makes the story all the more terrifying because there is no masked conspiracy or a conspiracy of the deep state that the spectator is presented – we simply want to a single woman with her thoughts, and the very intelligent IA life who tries to guide her for security.
As its title suggests, the main source of conflict Oxygen is, in fact, a lack of oxygen. When a woman known as Liz (Melanie Laurent) wakes up wrapped in a little medical pod in a non -disclosed place, she is immediately hysterical because the only thing she knows is that she has about 90 minutes of oxygen to discover who she is, where she is, what kind of sick experience she is subjected and who is behind the experience. Having access to a supercomputer named Milo (liaison officer of the medical interface), Liz scrolls in large databases in her attempts to remember who she is and how long she was locked up.
Using limited resources in its arrangement OxygenLiz discovers slowly but surely the origin of the pod, but is misleading at each stage each time it uses Milo to contact the authorities, or any other foreigner who may have intel on her situation.
Shit
Losing her sense of self while the old memories of her sickly husband Leo (Malik Zidi) begin to occupy the front of his mind, Liz places his confidence in Milo, which is not necessarily a force of evil, but he was clearly responsible for not fully revealing the truth about his situation. Having to choose between recovering in Hypers Sleep and risking lacking oxygen, or suffocating while looking for answers, Liz must think quickly in her disoriented state while she waits for the authorities to save her, but has no imperious reason to believe that this aid will actually arrive from so early. Faced with her own mortality as a literal oxygen horrode that checks right in front of her, Liz desperately tries to remember who she is, Or She is, and if she is locked up voluntarily or against her will.
Powerful solo performance
Melanie Laurent has all the respect for the world around me because the shooting Oxygen could not have been a pleasant experience by any section of imagination. Of course, the pod in which it is, which is probably not larger than a bathtub, is probably more spacious than I think from the point of view of production, but it is always an extreme framework Oxygen possible.
Aside apart from theaters on the screen apart from theaters on the screen, the real representation of Laurent of fear and confusion induced by isolation will make you sweat balls when you realize that it is alone and has no reason to trust everything that is told when looking for large databases for its original story.
To put it frankly, Oxygen I made my skin crawl, but its feeling of urgency prevented me from looking away because of its appearance, which is laudable if we consider the fact that we are talking about a single woman conversing with a disembodied and artificially intelligent voice in such a limited setting.
If you are ready to challenge yourself with one of the best original Netflix Sci-Flicks on the platform today, I would strongly advise you to look Oxygen In a wide and open space because if you don’t, you will feel as locked and desperate as Liz.
