![]() Well, I was right in a way, but surprises also resulted while the film managed to get out of that damn room and stop being a series of indignities being forced on someone. Of course there were the cuts away to subplots which seemed somewhat plonked in there, but what really didn’t help is that it was very obvious what was really being done to this woman and I expected it to be revealed as some supposed Big Twist near the end while I expected to sigh and shake my head at being taken for an idiot. ![]() My heart sank as this stuff seemed to go on past the halfway part I remain a liker of ‘rape/revenge’ movies but most of those move on to the revenge after the first half, with the latter being a sort of trial to go through so you can enjoy the justice being meted out thereafter. But this film just seemed to consist of a woman being terrorised and brutalised in a dingy room, and there’s not much one can really say about that whether you like this kind of thing or not, except that it did seem to critique, if not in any particularly deep way, said subgenre. Of course that’s not necessarily a bad thing I do seem to lack the gift of brevity these days, and even if I take into account that some of that may be down to me having more time within which to write my reviews, I really do want to try to make them shorter. Just over half way through this Soviet entry into the ‘torture porn’ subgenre I was really getting worried whether I was going to be able to write much about it. Meanwhile Mira, a quiet young woman with seemingly few friends, returns home, has a bag put over her head, and wakes up to find herself locked in a large, dirty room where she’s going to be both mentally and physically tortured and isn’t going to be allowed any sleep, while all the time she’s being watched by people online…. The Soviet ambassador to Belgium is at the opening of an art exhibition when suddenly he’s shot, though the assassination attempt fails because he survives. Starring: Evgeniy Gagarin, Jennifer Roberts, Olivia Indik, Polina Davydova
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