Afouotos
Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
Janae Milner
Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.
Hayleigh Joseph
This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.
Sarita Rafferty
There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.
Michael_Elliott
Silence Becomes You (2005)* 1/2 (out of 4) Psychological thriller has Violet (Alicia Silverstone) luring a drifter (Joe Anderson) back to her house where she and her sister Grace (Siena Guillory) have some wicked plans. The two sisters appear to be trapped in the house by their child spirits and the drifter might have walked into a deadly game. The main reason for me recording this film was to see what Silverstone had been doing recently but unless you're a fan of hers then there's no real reason to watch this movie. I kept watching and watching hoping for something to make sense but it never did and the movie just kept getting more confusing as it went along. Even at the end of the flick I tried to make sense of what I had just watched and I still couldn't make head or tails out of it. I could pick this thing to death with various logical issues like how the two sisters aren't working and yet have everything they do but that would be pointless because there's one goof after another. The basic story of why the girl's need this drifter never makes any sense as it appears a big portion of the film was cut out leaving us with a big mess. The three actors turn in decent, if not good, performances but I'm not sure you can blame them too much since the screenplay offers very little. The thriller aspect of the film is never thriller and the erotic moments aren't any better. As Silverstone is still sticking by her "no nudity" clause, her sex scenes border on PG-rated as she always has her clothes on, which pretty much kills anything erotic. The complete film is a major mess from the start so it's best to stay clear or at least keep your fast-forward button near by.
movieman_kev
Two sisters, Grace and Violet (Sienna Guillory and Alicia Silverstone respectively) who are fairly reclusive take in a drunken thieving sort (Joe Anderson) to stay with them awhile. Unbeknownst to him, they have plans for him, plans that might unravel when it seems Violet may be getting closer to him, much to Grace's chagrin. This is a fairly well-acted (for the first half at least until Sienna starts to madly overact) women's Lifetime-esquire melodrama under the guise of a thriller. A tad too estrogen driven for most, yet solid enough. Nothing I'd personally watch again though.Eye Candy: Sienna Guillory gets topless My Grade: C-
Francisco Arriagada
I'd like to get this movie in a very much artistic way. The two sisters issue is a reflection of an experiment that a father did on his children. The alchemist topic in the movie is relevant just in the main history, but the personality of two sisters that connect each other and link their own thoughts (even with their dad's thoughts)is definitely a wonderful description of what the real art is. I remember the many scenes of Grace painting, and the messages the father left into her consciousness; all of that meaning that the art is life and life is art (a real paradox of an artist). This is just an example of many scenes in the film.I conclude that the movie is really worth to be seen, specially if you are an artist (musician, painter, writer, or any kind of art you do)
everybodyissomeone
While I agree that the plot of this movie is sporadic, I disagree that it's illogical and "shitty." The two sisters, to me, represented opposites. Revenge vs. Forgiveness, Giving in vs. Overcoming, etc. After all, the father said at one point, "When the black of destruction and white light of creation come together, they do not create rain but all of the colors in the rainbow." The sisters', especially Grace's, comments seemed to prove that they were obsessed with the past, with an imaginary life. They were in love with fiction, with magic, not with the disappointment and cyclic routine of normal life. They were in love with a dream.I'm sure someone will say, "That interpretation is retarded. The movie is a horror an nothing more." However, I rarely find that anything is one thing and not another. This movie is a psychological thriller, but can it not have some underlying themes as well? The world is rarely black and white. (Yes, that last sentence is a reference to my opinion of the conclusion of the movie.)