The Big Picture Skyrocketing in popularity on Netflix, Alone is a psychological horror that keeps us clutching the edge of our seat throughout each deliberate and resounding beat of the film. Like the plot, each jarring and haunting scene is stringently pared back to the absolute essentials, offering us no escape from the horror on the screen.
Jessica is a widower who is eager to escape her husband's suicide by packaging her life into boxes and moving across the country all while avoiding phone calls from her concerned parents. During her solo trip, she meets Homem in a series of frustrating yet innocuous interactions that turn into a full-blown kidnapping.
Alone doubles down on its true-crime-esque realism with completely relatable and run-of-the-mill scenes of Jessica being honked at while daydreaming at a traffic light or being tailgated by an infuriating driver on the highway. These mundane moments extend Jessica's own wrangled nerves to ours, perfectly setting up a tense viewing in a simplistic way.
Jessica's vulnerability echoes that of Mike Flanagan'sHush, where the silence and minimal setting of both films are used to completely eliminate any potential bravado or hope. They both have manically defiant moments, like when Jessica leaps into the rapids to escape her pursuer, but overall there is a sense of being defenseless. However, unlike most predator and prey pairings in the animal kingdom, Jessica does have a chance to triumph over the implicated roles.
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