Hats off to Animator Jacov Ivanusa for this 5-minute gem of a sequence, which signaled that the better parts of the film were to come. At the top of the final third of the film, an artfully shot dream-fantasy signaled the entrance of some of the most grotesque and random imagery I have ever seen strung together, like something out of The Garden of Earthly Delights painting. At the very least, Polina Davydova as Mila made for a stellar scream queen. Afterward, more cinematic camera work took over, getting up close and personal with the prisoner, but never went far enough to capture the claustrophobic situation.įor the premise of kidnapping and torturing for the audience’s pleasure, I thought the movie would be much bloodier and gorier - the camera often looked away during shots that would foot the blood bill, only to cut back in for the aftermath, making the whole torture aspect of the film not very effective. In the beginning, the point of view was through what look like traffic or satellite cameras, instilling a sickening feeling of stalking the subject, Mila, right along with the sinister abductors of the movie. Line delivery seemed abrupt and emotionless at times as a result, but eventually, that ended up matching the somewhat techno-focused movie. Sleepless Beauty has the strange disconnect that a movie with dubbing typically has - personally, I would rather read subtitles. While she is missing, her worried parents launch an investigation into her whereabouts, not knowing that their daughter is being irrevocably changed through a twisted psychological experiment. A masked man continually torments her, periodically appearing to oversee her task performances and to punish her if need be for the salivating audience of online viewers. The room is equipped with cameras and a loudspeaker, through which one of her captors communicates that Mila is to perform tasks to stay alive, and also, will never be allowed to sleep. In Sleepless Beauty, a young woman named Mila ( Polina Davydova) is suddenly kidnapped from her apartment, and upon waking, finds that she is being held in a room with no way out.
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