![]() ![]() One of True Fiction's greatest achievements, is its commitment to the craft. The idea of submitting to your captor really gets put into question with every scene, and sometimes takes away from the overall threat that Croft sets up so patiently in the beginning. With each passing scene, the audience becomes quite confused, various times, as to who the villain and hero really are. What's really quite interesting about True Fiction is Croft's, as well as his cast's, ability to switch the power of each character's so effortlessly and without much accountability. The film's pace trots along quite well in the first two acts, but stalls in the third. We often question Caleb's intentions, as well as, who the true protagonist and antagonist really is. ![]() Croft's ability to use dream-like scenarios and reality, at times, are his downfall, extrapolating the expectations and experience of the audience with sometimes uneven narrative flow. True Fiction may not be the work of a seasoned horror master, but explores very menacing ideas of identity, at times, making Croft's execution seem a little more confusing than it should. As time passes and the lines of reality and fantasy are blurred, Avery soon begins to question Caleb's methods as well as the truths behind why she is really there in the first place. Avery, without hesitation, signs over all consent to Caleb and quickly becomes his guinea pig, playing in his little, twisted game of analyzing fear and her deepest, darkest secrets. Shortly after, the highly mysterious and reclusive writer Caleb Conrad mysteriously appears in his study, where the two lay out the terms and agreements of their working relationship. Relinquishing her phone and her daily responsibilities, she is given the opportunity to explore the cottage, with the exception of a few locked doors. Soon, she is picked up and driven to an isolated and secluded cottage, at an undisclosed location. Seeing the opportunity as a unique experience to gain some writing tips and advice for her own, eventual work, she is given the opportunity to work with her idol, and accepts the position, almost blindly. A game of power and control, writer and director Braden Croft blends a familiar narrative of the cat-and-mouse game into a power struggle between accomplished author and his very polite, young and sweet test subject.Īs the film opens, we are introduced to Avery Malone (Sara Garcia), an aspiring writer with some dark secrets about her past and her family, who is being interview for a position as an assistant to her favourite horror writer, Caleb Conrad (John Cassini). Blending the very blurred lines of reality, fantasy and toying with the perspectives of its two leads, the film becomes a feast for audience members to allow their imaginations to roam freely and vividly. True Fiction is a physiological film, first and foremost. With classic horror films like The Shining and Misery, as well as contemporary horror favourites like 1408 and Sinister, True Fiction dabbles with the idea of controlled experiment in fear being the basis for murder, chaos and mayhem. The relationship between authors and their subjects has been very familiar territory for the horror genre. And when Adam comes right up to the machine, he gets zapped along with his stuffed bunny.Ĭodec info = HEVC Main | V_MPEGH/ISO/HEVCĮncoder = x265 - 3.1.Reviewed by lucasnochez 4 / 10 Film Review: True Fiction But when he brings Nick & his toddler son Adam to see his invention, the machine unexpectedly starts working. ![]() As in the first one, his machine isn't quite accurate. But instead of shrinking things, he tries to make a machine that can make things grow. ![]() Stars: Rick Moranis, Marcia Strassman, Robert Oliveri, Daniel Shalikar, Joshua Shalikar Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Science Fiction Check your player compatibility in case of playback issues. ![]()
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