description: girl drowned, family telling the story, other people involved, ghosts, fake, death in future
(Geoffrey): (rating 3)
This is a docu movie about a girl who drowned and the family, friends, relatives telling more about the girl, who she really was and what happened. The idea is ok, but I found the acting not so good and the story got from worse to worse. Perhaps if they shortened it in a 45 minute docu-movie it would have been better. There are too many dumb (fake ghost pictures), boring (family acting not convincing at all) and annoying parts (ooh goodie, there is another hidden person in the pictures, is there something true after all? who knows -> WHO FUCKING CARES!!!) in the docu that made it very hard for me to watch.
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- I see dead pixels.
- No you don't.
- Yes I do.
Links: AFFF / imdb
The first 45 minutes of this film are a wonderful fake documentary about a family trying to cope with a drowned teenage daughter (okay, rather her absence...), only to see her appear in photos and films after her death. It turns out the son was the culprit, faking evidence of her "ghost". So far so good. What impressed me was the very believable documentary-mood of everything. The interviews, the dialogues, monologues and editing all made sense.
Rating So Far: 7
Then, alas, the writers / director derail by suggesting that besides the fake evidence she actually _does_ appear. Shock shock, horror horror. Not. It's a shame that these last 20 minutes turn the film into a farce. We had some discussions among ourselves about what this film could've been, but I myself find this tricky since it is too easy to project your own "perfect" type of film unto it. There is definitely something nice in there, if only they knew where and when to stop.
Final Rating: 5
- No you don't.
- Yes I do.
Links: AFFF / imdb
The first 45 minutes of this film are a wonderful fake documentary about a family trying to cope with a drowned teenage daughter (okay, rather her absence...), only to see her appear in photos and films after her death. It turns out the son was the culprit, faking evidence of her "ghost". So far so good. What impressed me was the very believable documentary-mood of everything. The interviews, the dialogues, monologues and editing all made sense.
Rating So Far: 7
Then, alas, the writers / director derail by suggesting that besides the fake evidence she actually _does_ appear. Shock shock, horror horror. Not. It's a shame that these last 20 minutes turn the film into a farce. We had some discussions among ourselves about what this film could've been, but I myself find this tricky since it is too easy to project your own "perfect" type of film unto it. There is definitely something nice in there, if only they knew where and when to stop.
Final Rating: 5
Mockumentary about a ghost of a drowned girl who shows up on video's and photo's made by family members. The idea of the movie is original and well done until the first half of the movie. After that it looses it's believability (in the setting of the movie). The brother of the girl admits that he faked the ghost pictures, he even tells how its done. After that they have new photo's of the ghost girl and now they are really "real" according to the brother. sure.
Rating : 7
Rating : 7
Non-campy Twin Peaks
Links: AFFF / imdb
This film made sense until about an hour into the film. Carefully disguised as a documentary, Lake Mungo tried its best not to go down the familiar road of creepy ghost apparition films. Unfortunately this was not the direction the film was headed, and so we ended up with a ghost film after all. A pity, because this could have been a good film if they had stuck with the observatory non-shocking style of the first sixty minutes.
In my opinion this film should have focused on the real life aspects and not the ghostly ones. By this I mean that to me the strongest emotional theme that should have had center stage was how a family deals with the death of a (young) family member, how they cope and how they try to make sense of it. Part of the ghost story could then still have been intact, but it would have served as an illustration of denial, of finding and giving meaning. It would have shown human behaviour in these difficult circumstances instead of the "this is the supernatural story that really happened".
Rating: 6
Links: AFFF / imdb
This film made sense until about an hour into the film. Carefully disguised as a documentary, Lake Mungo tried its best not to go down the familiar road of creepy ghost apparition films. Unfortunately this was not the direction the film was headed, and so we ended up with a ghost film after all. A pity, because this could have been a good film if they had stuck with the observatory non-shocking style of the first sixty minutes.
In my opinion this film should have focused on the real life aspects and not the ghostly ones. By this I mean that to me the strongest emotional theme that should have had center stage was how a family deals with the death of a (young) family member, how they cope and how they try to make sense of it. Part of the ghost story could then still have been intact, but it would have served as an illustration of denial, of finding and giving meaning. It would have shown human behaviour in these difficult circumstances instead of the "this is the supernatural story that really happened".
Rating: 6