The film "Request to Friends": reviews, genre, actors and roles

A horror film with elements of the thriller directed by Simon Verhoevena "Request to Friends" reviews most reviewers position as a film project, addressed to the next generation.

Genre of tape

Within the horror genre, the picture fits in completely. Of course, what is happening on the screen will not make you run out in panic from the cinema of a lover of this movie genre, but a more impressionable man in the street can easily frighten. The plot is certainly secondary and in some moments is very predictable, but the tape looks decent - it is competitively staged and filmed, beautifully played. The main thing, the tape "Request to friends" (reviews of the audience confirm this) does not try to position itself as something more significant than an uncomplicated horror film. Coupled with a couple of twists closer to the climax and the richness of the "bu" moments, horror is a strong representative of its genre, quite worthy of being recommended to viewers who have reached the age of 16. Horrors "Request to Friends" has an IMDb rating of: 5.70.

Creators

Simon Verhoeven has a small experience as a director, until 2001 he tried himself in the role of an actor. Debut Ferhoevena as a director was a carbon monoxide comedy with the appropriate title "In the gap!". But the real success came to Simon after the release of his copyright projects - two parts "Man in the City". "Request to friends" is the first horror in the filmography of the director, plus everything he did in the picture as a co-author of the script.

Screenwriters Matthew Ballen and Philip Koch, who worked in creative tandem with Ferhoeven, are also little known to the cinema public. The number of films to which they wrote the script does not reach 10. Perhaps, that is why the scenario of the picture was subjected to a decent number of attacks from the film critics.

Reading the traditions of the genre

German director Simon Verhoeven honors the traditions of the genre, this fact is unanimously confirmed by all the reviewers who left reviews for the movie "Request for Friends". He treats them as anxiously and attentively as the character of the film, Marina Mills, in magical ancient spells. According to even skeptical critics, the creators of the project met all the requirements of the cult formula for the production of "horror." In the picture there is an alarming creak of doors and floorboards, frightening the twilight, and the blood flows like a river. On the supernatural composition of the film is also not stingy, in an impressive amount in the movie there are witches, ghosts, revived dead. Still, the director focuses on the horrors of the man-made plan: mad printers, recalcitrant PCs, disobedience to accounts. Indeed, what for the next generation can be scarier?

Compared to "Remove from Friends"

The film "Request to Friends" in innovation is much inferior to the creative "Remove from Friends", the plot of which develops in the laptop of the central character, it is created quite traditionally. In it, as in Levan Gabriadze's project there are mysterious social network failures (you can not remove a suicide from friends, you can not delete your profile, instead of a page code, runic devilry is displayed on the screen), the characters are clearly separated by archetypes, deaths that look like suicides, but In general, the work of Simon Verhoevena is much closer to the classical horror. Critics, placing on the "Request for Friends" reviews, often pointed to the presence of characteristic features like heroes - future victims are first noted as a friend application in Facebook (almost "Call"), and after exquisitely killed, plunging into the abyss of paranoia and nightmare ( Reference to "Nightmare on Elm Street").

Subject jungle

The film "Request to Friends" once again exaggerates the American comedian's obsession with the obsession of the modern man in the accumulation of friends in the social sphere. Facebook network. The main character Laura (Alicia Debnem Carey) - a popular personality, a cheerful and sociable student, a fan of Facebook - once receives a friend request from a strange classmate Marina (Lisle Ahlers). Laura, without hesitation, accepts him, but Marina is not solitary only in real life, in social life. Network, it is too annoying. The main character for a while maintains communication from courtesy, but after the gloomy habits of a classmate and excessive affection bother the freaky beauty. Laura, without thinking about the consequences, "otshivaet" a new girlfriend, and she turns out to be so unbalanced person that makes a successful attempt at suicide. The horrors of "Requesting Friends" do not end with this narrative.

Punishment for carelessness

Marina, a witch of the 21st century, commits suicide in an ancient magical ritual and records the process on video. Before committing suicide through hanging, it kindles a fire, burns Laura's photo in front of the laptop screen. The girl repeats the rite, used in the Middle Ages by magicians of the highest category, who decided to change their essence. The young witch modifies the ritual by adding a photograph of the offender and replacing the black mirror with the laptop screen. The girl successfully practiced black magic and now will not leave careless Laura and her friends even after her death. By the way, due to inexplicable reasons, the Facebook social network in the adapted version of the "Request to friends" tape in Russian was transformed into "VKontakte".

Categorical opinion

Not all critics have favorably accepted the appearance of the new Ferhoaven project. By posting their reviews and reviews, they noted serious shortcomings in the script of the film, thought about the degree of adequacy of the characters, especially the police, who began to suspect the main character is not clear in what, because of the influence of magic charms, she could not remove her page in the social. Network. Also, skeptical cinematographers pointed to sagging in the plot action, according to them, to wait for the next dose of screamers, which the director tries to frighten an unsophisticated viewer, is rather boring. Particularly ardent opponents who took what is called the bayonets "Request for Friends" suggested changing the slogan of the picture with "think who you add" to "think what you spend money and time for." However, as you know, there are no friends for the taste and color, so the horror should be looked at, and only after making independent conclusions.

Actors' Ensemble

From the casting of the film "Request to Friends" Alicia Debnem Keri, the performer of the main role, stands out unequivocally. The actress started her creative career at an early age - 8 years, taking part in television series and independent short films. In 2012, the girl became the finalist of the mega-popular show "The Next Stop - Hollywood", which tells about six national actors from Australia, trying to conquer the Dream Factory. A wide audience is known for works in "The Devil's Hand", "Towards a Storm", the spin-off of "Walking Dead" and now even on the horror "Request to Friends." Alicia Debnem Keri in 2016 starred in the movie "Laiknuty", so her fans will soon be in for a surprise.

Quite convincingly in the unsociable solitary Marina, fond of black magic, reincarnated actress Lizl Ahlers. Filmography which includes only two films: "Challenger" and "Request for Friends." Roles actress get in film projects of such genres: horror, thriller, drama.

The remaining performers of the roles of the second plan could not eclipse the two actresses, although they played in good faith, to the best of their abilities.