Emily (Midori Francis) is abducted in Yoko Okumura’s “Unseen,” in cinemas today before an MGM+ release in May. A stranger called Sam (Jolene Purdy) uses mobile video calling to help Emily escape from her abductor. Francis and Purdy give sincere performances, which stands in stark contrast to the campily insane appearances of Carol (Missi Pyle) and Charlie (Michael Patrick Lane). An upbeat Japanese-American and a downtrodden Japanese-American battle white American stalkers whose entire identities are built around a sense of entitlement and a desire to harm them. Blumhouse Productions is a studio most known for producing horror and thriller films including “Get Out,” “Paranormal Activity,” and the most current, “M3GAN.” This most recent low-budget offering fits into a subgenre that occasionally includes “the horror of whiteness” and “the terror of Karens and Connors.” The film’s silliness makes it difficult to watch, despite the satisfaction of rooting for individuals with suppressed emotions to ultimately prevail.
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Emily is bound and being choked by her ex-boyfriend Charlie, who is shrieking at her to “sing for me.” I wondered whether this was the “warm welcome” into Women’s History Month I was hoping for. The movie’s hook and insight is the science-fictional idea that a video chat from the future will save both people, but this only serves to mask the film’s extremely generic, uneven storyline, which uses a variety of hot-button subjects in place of personalities. Scary Americana like “rednecks” and broken slushie machines abound in this basic and repetitive survival thriller, but they don’t lead to any genuine thrills, insights, or even chuckles. Sam’s response, “Eat all the Williams Sonoma cheese you want,” is a letdown. Then Nickelback’s “Burn It to the Ground” starts playing, and I can’t think of a more realistic wish fulfilment. Lose the plot, the people, and the scenery.
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The viewer sees how the American police can be counted on to make an arrest for the sake of saving a Karen, but they can’t be counted on to save a non-white citizen. One of the film’s many unaddressed issues is how white Americans’ aloofness contrasts with the obligation of a fundamental moral code being imposed on Asian communities. Audiences aren’t interested in the subtlety or complexity of a story that swings between human principles and saving rampaging whites. Blumhouse loves to toy with this notion, despite the fact that it doesn’t amount to anything, even if it isn’t a reality to tease or sell. The movie demonstrates that as a person of colour in the United States, your socioeconomic status is irrelevant. Everything is white and white people are everywhere until you have a phone and can video chat with strangers that look a little bit like you.
We expect “Unseen” to live up to its name.
In the movies now and on MGM+ in May.