Brick, the review of the Netflix movie

Put one morning you wake up and you can no longer leave the house. It happens to the protagonists of BrickGerman film that is depopulating on Netflix, a real matryoska made of feelings, plans and stairs in which the characters must try to get out of their prison. A cage that is not clear how and who has been imposed by, blocking every entrance and exit, from the doors to the windows, making the protagonists the participants of an unusual escape room that will end up bringing them at the end to a series of shocking and disturbing revelations. Obviously, as often happens to films of this kind, the forced closure of the characters arises from the deepest expression of a discomfort to which The director and screenwriter Philip Koch gave concrete form.

It is in fact In an inner prison in which the protagonist Tim had been self-rolled, the Matthias Schweighöfer who had already become known to the fans of Zack Snyder on the platform for Army of the Dead In 2021, of which the actor himself then took the reins of the direction of the prequel/spin-off in his hand Army of Thieves. The pain too great of a loss that influenced his last two years next to his life partner Olivia (Ruby O. Feepreviously directed by the colleague in Army of Thieves), determined to make a change to one’s existence just before being barricaded in their own home.

Brick: the German thriller on Netflix between the sci-fi touch and efforts of imagination

As Brick you make thriller looking for high voltage, but it goes more to low voltage. Certainly capable of intriguing the audience on the mystery that is hidden behind the impenetrable slabs, which must however make an effort of imagination not indifferent and not so much for the sci-fi touch, justifiable and in line with the idea of building an unpublished and unexplored reality, but for the approximation with which some situations are addressed And, above all, exceed some of the most difficult circumstances.

A writing that tends to comply with insistence on the turns that are sometimes very fast, sometimes not so in -depth of the narrative, on which it is still agreed to close a view seen The deliberately unreal and entertaining aurea of the filmwhich proves to be a failed cinematographic game for this, but with which to afford to have fun during the time of vision.

A failed, but curious enigma

Certainly the enigma in front of which he places Brick He does not have the power or doubt of operations similar to him. Just think of a 10 Cloverfield Lane From whose release almost ten years have passed and that staging the constant uncertainty in front of which the protagonist Michelle was skilled, played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead. In which a giant of acting like John Goodman ordered her to remain calm and rational while forced her to remain with him inside a bunker, boasting an unlikely alien invasion from which man tried to protect her. Which is then what happens in Brick with the threat of a possible contamination outsidea danger that is therefore outside and from which the protagonists have been protected, but too strange and ambiguous as an omen in order to be considered authentic.

And so here is the race to the best solution to get out of your prison made of black and magnetic doors. To try to find an escape route that in Brick it is as concrete as the hole that the characters try to disdain as internal in trying to get out of one’s own suffering and start again to all intents and purposes to live. A work whose intrigue is higher than the surrender, more than once mediocre, but that succumbs to wanting to find out what is hiding beyond the impenetrable walls. A story in which there is no lack of forcing and imperfections, whose success on the platform is perhaps not commensurate with the actual valuebut of which the curiosity that generates around is understandable.