![]() It is that multiplicity that turns the narrative into an increasingly monstrous, overwhelming and, also, fascinating idea.įrom has been in HBO Max’s catalog for a few months, but, perhaps, just like its story, it needed some time to show its horrors. Whatever the answer to the lurking evil, the answer is not unique. The slowness of the camera as it moves, the way the script narrates, step by step, the deaths and the desperation of the victims. By the time the plot finds its darkest and most perverse moment, the series has reached a dark, unclassifiable point. With a mixture between the Salem’s Lot by Stephen King (to which he directly references) and a Lovecraftian tale, From is terrifying in its simplicity. What is hidden amidst the silent facades, closed windows and deserted streets of a random town? The circumstance creates the possibility that the great question of the narrative is of unusual simplicity for a complex mise-en-scène. Just as was the enigmatic island in the iconic Lostseems out of time and out of reality. At worst, as an integral part of the town, as a peninsula isolated from the world around it. So much so that gore scenes include walls splattered with blood and viscera that are explicitly displayed. What happens in the village does not lend itself to second interpretations and is, in fact, of an unknown cruelty.īut, although the scenario changes, becomes darker, dense and unbreathable, there are no explanations. The series does not disguise that its story is brutal. What made her like this? What causes the unbreathable feeling that the town is surrounded by an invisible circle of bloody events? Let me in, I’m alone, pleads the old woman who prowls the windows at dusk and turns out to be a violent killer. But, in particular, isolation and loneliness are settings for an increasingly brutal and unexplained type of events.įrom shades the fear from the conception of what could be a condemnation, even an ordeal. ![]() The darkness, an element that becomes a brutal perception of violence. The forest is a deceptively harmless witness to what surrounds each house and character. A terrifying labyrinth that leads nowhereĪt Fromthe script links time and fear into a single line of chilling events. The way they find themselves caught in the middle of a phenomenon that could be both physical and completely supernatural. It does so by allowing its characters to test the limits of this frontier with the unknown. Nevertheless, From makes the intelligent decision to turn his mystery into a circumstance. Undoubtedly, a version of the unexplored in fearful spaces that has already been shown frequently. Anyone who enters it will not be able to leave it again. The premise is, on the face of it, simple: the dark, silent, unsettling town the plot explores is a vortex. But, at the same time, as a riddle of disparate pieces that builds little by little as the story progresses. Every element in From is conceived as a trap. Perhaps, one of the most intriguing points of the production is the possibility of the terrifying hidden in plain sight, indistinguishable from its surroundings. All the elements link together into something larger, singular and unpleasant that gradually weaves itself out of the screen. ![]() The gloomy and decaying looking houses, the tired faces of the inhabitants, the forest at the periphery. In the anonymous town where the plot takes place, everything seems suspended in a timeless void. In the series Fromby HBO Max, the glimpse of normality is deceptive.
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