The film’s pre-credit sequence is
spooky and well done; making use of creepy chants and whispers, in the vein of
SUSPIRIA, before a ringing phone sets the stage for the lead character’s
evening.
A mother (Cachito Noguera) quickly becomes disgruntled after receiving a call
from her son (Alessandro Fornari)
asking for money. Apparently she finds
her son’s reasons disagreeable and highly unsettling, and so, after hanging up,
she attempts to remedy her frustrations by sitting down to piece together a
jigsaw puzzle that ends up holding an unpleasant surprise.
The only spoken dialogue in the film is at
the beginning, with the events unfolding in a dialogue-free fashion with visuals,
sounds, and SILENT HILL-esque music driving the narrative. The piano-laden montages are the most
enjoyable parts for me, which are complete with rotating camera shots and brief
moments of black and white. These scenes
succeed in making the inclusion of piecing together this puzzle a bit more
profound. It immediately starts to
answer the question: How interesting can it be to watch someone put together a
puzzle?
