Caddo Lake
Caddo Lake
As someone cautions Paris Long, one of the two main characters in Max’s original film “Caddo Lake,” “There’s no way in hell that you’ll be going anywhere if you are unable to put things in perspective.” I am not sure I would be able to articulate completely, this film therefore I might be in trouble.
That is, though, not consistent with what for instance, purists or internet “plot hole” checkers would always have you believe. Sometimes, a film is able to skip, miss out or fail to explain because it does not engage at practical level, trusting that the audience will meet it halfway on an emotional level. There are many people who would get angry over the big revelation in “Caddo Lake” that I am not even allowed to reveal as the network has requested me; however, I appreciated how the film started as a typical streaming content thriller and then slowly moved away from that approach. It is also easier to have a couple of protagonists who are able to fully absorb the essence of the character and not do the abominable thing and wink at the camera which all secondary do in a mad house with this kind of crazy script. Caddo fanatics could have hands down titiled it “Cuckoo Lake.”
As for Caddo Lake, this is probably a place that does not exist. rather just a renaming of a depressed region that is more swamp and forest borders between Texas and Louisiana.
The creative team behind the movie, Logan George & Celine Held, (a name to reckon with, they have worked in three episodes of Servant presumably to get this one produced by M. Night Shyamalan), chose the setting of Caddo Lake based on its sinister beauty which has an aspect that connects generations of its local people themselves. The mystery plot they invented is of three people lost in such a deadly place, with a connection that they would never guess, but again, about which I can not speak further. Paris, played by Dylan O’Brien who psycho fans would remember from his amazing portrayal of Dan Aykroyd on Saturday Night, is ruminating over the loss of his mother who had some seizure while driving and had an accident over a bridge where they fell off. Despite O’Brien’s well impressive shrinkage character, in the physical space, he is burdened with survivor’s guilt as a man who did everything to find out what really happened to his mother, going as far as confronting her doctor in the car parlor. Though he is willing to find the extent of rather dark care, Caddo Lake, more than what it appears to be.
In addition, we are introduced to Ellie (Eliza Scanlen, who was brilliant in the TV series Sharp Objects), who wants her father whom she has never seen and has a complicated relationship with her mother (played by Lauren Ambrose who is yet another link to the woefully underappreciated Servant). One stepfather Daniel (Eric Lange) makes warm, almost desperate attempts to repair clearly damaged relationships and Ellie is shown to be a dorothy who has only one companion, an 8 year old stepsister Anna played by Caroline Falk. After an incident in the house where her whole family gets into a fight, Ellie runs out into the open water of the lake and Anna flushes and terrorizes her. She is enormous. If I were to provide you with one hundred activist shifts about Ellie’s journey, there seems no way I could prepare you for what it is that ties her arc in Paris.
One of the factors is that “Caddo Lake” is positively a working man’s drama for quite some time. You see, Shyamalan’s plastic couch as a producer-and how much of this season is spurred by genre normal for streamers at this time of year-is the first hint that things are about to go off the rails. This is one thing and an offshoot of this is also where viewers think it does not just go off track. It goes off in several directions at once in attempts mostly of even where the viewer might want there to be order it is chaotic, however, perhaps it is part of the fun, depending on how much of a fun you consider the mess.
This is the viewer who has probably been overexposed to bad movies where the ending has been revealed within the first five minutes admires the narrative torments of “Caddo Lake” perhaps even though I seriously doubt I will be able to do so without a notebook. Once more, it helps very much to have working actor and O’Brien and Scanlen to undertake this task exactly and make these emotionally overacted characters even in relatively ridiculous melting pot concepts of how this story works and perform dissolution of its own ideas.
It is unfortunate that the high point is all about Ellie making use of Google to do more than a movies fair share of explaining how everything connects, but I suppose it can be let go in a movie whose charms are best appreciated cold, watching how this family drama wraps itself in a pretzel of sorts that can only happen in those kinds of places that seem to be on the brink of chaos, Caddo Lake.
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- Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- Country: United States
- Director: Celine Held, Logan George
- Cast: Dylan O'Brien, Eliza Scanlen, Diana Hopper
