What Remains
What Remains
The first 15 minutes of “What Remains” follow a shadowing of Mads Lake, after whom Mads becomes almost Sigge Storm, Scandinavian with a beard, scruffily timid in a Rukka outdoors coat, about to embark on a new adventure after several years inside a mental hospital. Cleveland visits a man living in a bad neighborhood and is ironically stabbed and robbed within the first few days of his return to society. And his stepmother restores contact with him. Just when you start pitying this poor sumabitch, Graham’s psychotherapist Anna Rudebeck (Andrea Riseborough) turns up and asks him this whopper: ‘How about those nine boys you sucked off?’ explaining exactly why Graham is in therapy.
Thereafter, ‘What Remains’ becomes this ice cold psychodrama that challenges you to feel sympathy for a child molester. Lake, of course, is a result of sexual assault, her father began abusing her at age three. When he comes to learn of a case of a six-year old boy who was last sighted but could not be found, he begins to wonder Guilty as Charged: An Ardent self_acceptance of shame, Julie Kahn, from Apart from the Tree, said it. In fact, most of the people we encounter are simply sad and broken people, apart from the fact that they also seem to have some form of eczema that occasionally pops up on their skin. That gal, the aforementioned therapist, who has daddy issues herself, seems obsessed with having a baby and even tries to get knocked by some random behind the back seat of a car in a desperate late night ploy.
(Riseborough, that pale-faced chameleon, plays someone who bears it all in the most sinister way one could possibly do – in a persona that wants to fill the barren stomach of that body though it can’t be done.) They are paired with Soren Rank, a police officer blessed with the imposing would of Stellan Skarsgård always ready to find the killer.
The man is a former alcoholic and a husband who is trying to win the love of both his wife and his daughter. Yes, “What Remains” is about family. The strain of the movie focuses on the female and male characters of the three generations of Skarsgards who act in the movie – both men being very good in their portrayal of their characters, two men filled with guilt over deeds done long ago and both are troubled films. Moreover, the movie also has a co writer who is Megan Everett-Skarsgaard, Stellan’s wife and Gustaf’s mother.
Positively Ran Huang is intricately involved in the script writing and directing offered up for the entire family: The murder forest: based on real events about a disturbed Swedish man, Sture Bergwall who falsely confessed to 30 murders, gathered the entire family due to its gloomy outlook. In his first feature film, Ran introduces very chilled and harsh world at War spark.
In a police-styled regroup of three protagonists, Rudebeck & Rank manage to make Lake remember killings that occurred and other times that never took place. When finally getting constructive, this trio instead turns out to inflict additional suffering on the audience more than any that can be imagined. Effective from the character of, Ran starts peeling off the layers of the cake in a manner of interest and acquires a slushy 126-minute which is rather fond of the snow as it combines torment and monotony. It’s a case of a serial killer which almost taunts the audience that no resolution will ever be found. It’s like a Zodiac without the fun being painstakingly directed by David Fincher. The important parts are whispered or sometimes they may not even be said at all.
Instead of complete closure, expect only disjointed hints which point in the direction of something monstrous, puzzling, and most unfortunately, quite melancholic. Of course, one witnesses how each of the clients of this “What Remains” wanted to take the sadism of doing a murder mystery further, and further, each time I regret for them promising myself that no more lowly installments will come out. I can even practically gawk at this, it’s just so fun to sit back and see how low awful, pathetic, and depressing this becomes. The very title, however, wooed over so many vulnerabilities in itself, becomes an inquiry into where the vanished children went and what – if anything is left at all – remains of the morality and the frame of mind of the person most likely responsible for this tragedy.
This is something that will not come as a shock at all, when during the very last course of the story, you have come to care about a man called Lake, who just wants everybody gone so he can turn back into the monster that he once was.
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- Genre: Mystery, Thriller
- Country: united states
- Director: Nathan Scoggins
- Cast: Anne Heche, Kellan Lutz, Cress Williams
