The
Confession
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The Confession is a dialog driven suspense film with an
entertaining story and good character development. Although The
Confession is not an action or horror film and although it doesn't
have gore or skin, it fits in with other Film Apocalypse movies simply
because it is and independent film with such a unique presentation and
clever execution.
The premise of the movie
is as follows: an unknown host invites five people to a party.
Some of the people know each other. Some have never met before,
but the one thing tying them all together is the death of a mutual
friend. Early on, we learn that the host of the party is the
ex-boyfriend of the dead woman. He was just recently acquitted on
murder charges and let out of jail. He is convinced that one of
the five people in the house killed his ex-girlfriend, so he has brought
them together to discover the identity of the real murderer.
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The aspect of the movie that impressed me
the most was the ingenious use of security cameras to film the entire
movie! This avoided the expense of shooting on film, but still delivers a product that doesn't look low budget! I also thought the story was clever and kept me involved up to the end. Many low budget and no budget films fall short in this
area, but The Confession actually does keep the viewer
entertained throughout the film.
There were a couple of minor technical issues that kept the film from
looking truly big budget, but overall, these issues pale in comparison
to the ingenuity of the basic idea behind the film. Some of
the dialog is difficult, if not impossible, to understand due to
overlapping lines and screams that made the microphone levels peak and
distort. However, this just adds to the realism of the security
camera idea and comes off as a stylistic decision rather than a
technical flaw.
With all of this said, the big marketing push of the film isn't the
story or the clever use of security cameras, it is another feature which
I have yet to mention. The first 30 minutes of the film can be
watched from any of the security camera angles; thus giving the viewer
access to multiple angles for each shot. The footage is also
available as a separate product called Film School In A Box which
is basically the raw footage from each camera. The purchaser then
has the option of editing his or her own film from the footage
provided. To be honest, this feature didn't interest me very much,
but I can understand that without a gimmick it's tough to stand out in
the film market these days. I was simply more interested in the
final edited product. Part of the reason the film worked for me
was the clever use of security cameras as a way of avoiding film.
Since it would be somewhat redundant to use that idea again, I'm very
curious to see what these guys come up with for their next
project!
Gore-o-meter
rating: 0 out of 5 (no
gore)
Skin-o-meter:
0 out of 5
(absolutely none)
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