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Would such a dedicated magician set down his cards?
Not if there were more serious tricks to play.
Like most of his films, his new thriller,Unsane,tests a complicated thesis.
Is she telling the scary truth or is she a delusional paranoiac?
Back and forth we go, mostly sure of one thing, then another.
Theres a definitive answer in the films last third but until then its an unnerving switchback ride.
(He claims to have shot the entire film with an iPhone.)
The editing is rhythmless, bordering on slack, so that we share her crawly sense of time.
Something is way off, and a few of the supporting performers muddle the line (by design?)
between nonacting and bad acting.
Or do the therapists really want to help her?
A psychiatrist is maddeningly unreadable.
(To be continued, he ends their meetings.)
The hospital ups her meds.
Sawyer Valentini isnt an aberration.
Her messiness is our tragic legacy.
