I won’t say that I was skeptical at first, but The Tall Man is a film that definitely caught me off guard. I vividly remember being ten and thinking to myself that it couldn’t get any more predictable than this: Up until the 50-minute mark, deception and misdirection cold stunned me. I knew I was going to be right until the last minute. Turns out that’s wrong.
To be fair, I do agree with other reviewers who state that this movie doesn’t classify as horror, but this still doesn’t change the fact that children get kidnapped, which is always horrific ghost or no ghost. To be quite honest, I’m even more generous than willing to simply overlook the latter without bearing a good amount of sympathy.
The story is set in the mining township Cold Rock that is located in rural Washington, and as the years go by it is becoming more and more desolate due to this here mine shutting down six years ago, alongside a significant decrease in the citizenry. The Wichita has lost twenty-five children to what they suspect is a mysterious kidnapper they refer to as The Tall Man. Julia Denning (Jessica Biel) is the nurse of the town who has recently become a widow due to her psychiatrist husband, attempting to tend to her ghastly town that grew out of hand until David goes missing.
The cast is phenomenal and the acting is just as great; kudos to Carmen Kotyk and Bonnie Timmerman. Even the most minor of roles are fulfilled, and the chemistry among the characters is stunning. Todd Bryanton’s original score is brilliant from beginning to end. Sebastien Prangere has done an amazing job editing the film the cuts are so crisp that the audience can almost snap along to the transitions. There is not a word to describe how I feel about the execution of The Tall Man. The reveals are not shocking there is no violence done to the viewer’s senses. I believe that although it is cynical, it does not condescend to the audience. The narrative and plots are well crafted and the characters are not only well defined and explored, but their motivations are rational, so there was no moment in the story where a plot device was used that lacked logic. It makes no difference how much you think you know about the past, the future remains a mystery. Detective Dodd is not the only one who surprised me as far as I know, he’s the first cop to employ proper speech during questioning.
This film’s impact will be universally acknowledged across the gender spectrum being remarkable since it was directed and written by a male, Pascal Laugier. Additionally, there is an enigma about how feminine it feels when examining the question, “What is motherhood”, and it is intriguing how it isn’t sexist or deprecating. Such an approach is sorely lacking in the modern world, and I must say that I have not experienced a strong sense of such power for some time now. A man who so dramatically understands the women’s experience as described is Wally Lamb in his book She’s Come Undone.
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