First let me say that overall for a low-budget movie the outcome has merit. The plot was catching but it fails to deliver a coherent conclusion.
The story develops in small-city Appalachia. It starts with a very commonplace situation that could be the preamble to a very lame movie, or a promise that better things are coming to justify the beginning. Fortunately, it is the latest.
In this first fragment, Claire -student at day, night gas station mini-market cashier at night- leaves her job and walks to the road to wait for her boyfriend to pick up her -she hasn't a driver's license-. Her boyfriend's truck arrives but driven by an unknown man, despite what, she accepts the ride. As you are already imaging he harassed her all the way until they arrive to Claire's home, and after some suspense -yes you are right again- the stranger kills her. However, wait, right here the plot starts looking interesting. Immediately after the supposed murder the story goes back to the point in time where it started -Claire leaving her job and walking to the road to wait for her ride- except that some details change.
At this point I said "well, this is going to be interesting", and began to guess which was main concept behind the plot. It looked good for some sort of time shifting and/or parallel or alternative realities. The following sequences reaffirmed that idea but at some point they stopped being consistent with any of the ideas I mentioned before. I made an effort to think of a new one that made better sense but couldn't find anyone except the some kind of no so exciting ghosts-spirits limbo, which didn't convince me completely neither.
Lauren Currie Lewis as Claire delivers a very good performance. She has a placid kind of beauty somewhere between Alicia Silverston and a female version of Jake Gyllenhaal (she could be a female "Donnie Darko" too if the film didn't drift into massive confusion) with evident talent for drama.
Sound and music were outstanding with powerful songs by the rather unknown "Devola".
As said before, keep trying.
The story develops in small-city Appalachia. It starts with a very commonplace situation that could be the preamble to a very lame movie, or a promise that better things are coming to justify the beginning. Fortunately, it is the latest.
In this first fragment, Claire -student at day, night gas station mini-market cashier at night- leaves her job and walks to the road to wait for her boyfriend to pick up her -she hasn't a driver's license-. Her boyfriend's truck arrives but driven by an unknown man, despite what, she accepts the ride. As you are already imaging he harassed her all the way until they arrive to Claire's home, and after some suspense -yes you are right again- the stranger kills her. However, wait, right here the plot starts looking interesting. Immediately after the supposed murder the story goes back to the point in time where it started -Claire leaving her job and walking to the road to wait for her ride- except that some details change.
At this point I said "well, this is going to be interesting", and began to guess which was main concept behind the plot. It looked good for some sort of time shifting and/or parallel or alternative realities. The following sequences reaffirmed that idea but at some point they stopped being consistent with any of the ideas I mentioned before. I made an effort to think of a new one that made better sense but couldn't find anyone except the some kind of no so exciting ghosts-spirits limbo, which didn't convince me completely neither.
Lauren Currie Lewis as Claire delivers a very good performance. She has a placid kind of beauty somewhere between Alicia Silverston and a female version of Jake Gyllenhaal (she could be a female "Donnie Darko" too if the film didn't drift into massive confusion) with evident talent for drama.
Sound and music were outstanding with powerful songs by the rather unknown "Devola".
As said before, keep trying.