Nun

I originally was going to give this one star, but i can't. it IS a smart, deeply metaphorical, and to say it wasted an hour of my time would no longer be accurate. We are all so accustomed to seeing an exorcism through the experience of everyone but the person actually experiencing it.That is really the only thing you need to know about the film, as it is easy to write off otherwise. Interpret every scene off the basis of this idea, and it isn't much of a waste of time at all. You really can see where the deeply layered thought clashed with the tiny budget to make a complex film. if it had been twenty minutes longer, i doubt so many people would be divided on the movie.it is really a statement on how we feel inside our own minds, how we might try to describe an experience to someone who could not possibly wrap their mind around it. we hear this all the time from the mentally ill community, and possession is something akin to that experience, so i place tremendous value on the film for showing rather than telling.finally, the backtracking of the final scene *spoiler i guess* is where the meat of the exorcism began, so keep that in mind.she is seen exploring the room. she falls asleep in there when she realizes she can't get out. she is clearly spooked by the noises surrounding her. indeed, this is where she has been in her mind THE ENTIRE TIME the movie has been going at this point, and endless loop of losing time, ending up in the same place. she has not been able to leave the corridor and doesn't wish to be out in it, so she waits in the safety of the storage unit. think back to the "get out" film where the main character was sent by the hypnotist, for example. same sort of deal....keep in mind that this woman closed the door and blew out the light, only for the next scene to show her walking around with it re lit, that time in between unaccounted for at this point, now looking for a way to escape even if it doesn't make sense how. she cannot stay in the room because she will not be left alone in there. she is forced to walk through the rooms of her mind, now opened, the haunting and the forgotten, the things it's easier to resign from. the things she both is, and what she isn't as whatever has imprinted onto her lives in her mind as well. she is forced to muck around in the danger if she wants out, to finally confront the evil doctor who keeps her in, played by the same man who plays the priest who is trying to help her out. the backstabbing friend who lures her into the building- who also plays the nun at the end what i assume is a friend of genuine concern and support for a self destructive person who is weakened- is probably just a shade of her personality that was weak enough to be swept up by the evil and assist in the pain it inflicts onto her. as that part of her shows protest and wants to end things, it is killed and she flees, finally winning back her spiritual freedom in the end throughout the spiritual warfare. it is spiritual stockholm syndrome and all that is left is her and the evil within her, no inbetween, and she wins, is what i am getting at. it is all extremely over layered and incredibly thought out, for example, arriving to poker is both a den of evil spirits in her mind, but also the party present for her assistance. the man at the gas station doesn't speak to her as you are instructed not to do during exorcisms in other movies, but also could be seen as her own lack of direction with that evil that surrounds her constantly surrounding her and intimidating her as she seeks out her own doom without even really noticing it until shes trapped. etcetera. you can find your own interpretations, those are just ones i can think of at the moment. ie: the point of exorcism, the point of why a vunerable person can become possessed, the things we have seen in other films, but never had to or been able to feel in those types of films, ironically. the good can seem very bad when we have been lost a long time, and we can cling or submit to the bad because it is familiar.the cover art is again, a metaphor, and i am writing this review in the hopes that people will see a different perspective themselves a AFTER having watched it, because it isn't pointless or stupid really. it is refreshing and certainly heavy in meaning and traumatic if you're able to empathize under the terms given to you by the crew that created this. i reallllly hope people end up giving it more credit, especially people that complain about mindless cinema. don't squander a film that worked hard obviously. i swear it's just had to be the budget that didn't allow the time it needed for the fruit to ripen just a little more.I just wish i had caught it WHILE i watched the film, so here you go guys.

This is an hour of watching a sobbing, irrationally frightened woman wander around a partially abandoned building, banging on doors and doing really idiotic things to get out - and frankly that sounds more exciting than it actually is. The rest of the minutes you will waste watching it are filled with an emotional build up that doesn’t really seem to fit with the abandoned building thing, accented by a rather horribly acted Clementine. I admit that I don’t know how it ended - I paused it with around 20 minutes left so that I could meet the Amazon Prime Now delivery man. His performance was much more interesting and emotionally compelling, and alas after putting away my groceries I could not bring myself to finish watching Nun. In all seriousness, I unpaused it as the movie was entering the crescendoing climax and had no motivation left to keep watching it.I love slow burn suspense films. When I read these reviews that were disappointed that it wasn’t the similarly titled paranormal nun film, I thought, “Yay! Sign me up!” I was wrong. They were right. It’s a waste of time.

I thought, "wow, the Nun is out already?!" Nope. This is not the movie that was advertised on tv. I read the reviews with with theories of the movie, I still don't get it. An exorcism? But then why does she end up in the storage place again? Maybe there was more than was cut. Or the editing screwed up the plot. But I wanted to believe I could find the good in it so I watched until the painfully boring ending.

Ok so not gonna lie i got played thought this was " The Nun" movie that came out earlier this fall. After a couple of minutes into the movie my fiancé and I realized it def wasn't it. The movie had a lot of potential to lead to an amazing plot or climax, but took a haaaaard left turn as if the director and screen writers ran out of ideas. I mean you wanna get the family together and watch something a little jumpy sure, but if you're on a date or late night fling at the house don't waste your time and watch this movie...Honestly tho can someone explain to me exactly what happened at the end of the movie. It ended and I was so lost.

This is clearly one of those films that aimed to make a profit by being developed with almost no budget, hoping to capitalize on misleading viewers with the "Nun" title (Not to be confused with the more well-known "The Nun" released the same year). It has barely relevant bits book ending the film about the protagonist being a Nun to get away with its title, but the majority of the film is just a frightened woman wandering aimlessly in an empty storage facility. Would be a complete waste of time, except the cinematography is quite good at times, allowing it to feel tense as often as it does boring. Still, there's probably better movies to spend your time on.

The first 37 minutes of this movie aren't extremely interesting, but I was willing to go through them because I figured the good stuff was coming. It wasn't. I suggest you not see this. *KIND OF A SPOILER* But if you do watch it, you could watch up until minute 37, which establishes that the main character is indeed trapped, and then skip to minute 60 (one hour into the movie). Then watch the rest of the movie to get the big plot twist. Minutes 37-60 are nothing but the main character trying to find her way out. It just goes on and on with nothing happening except her going down corridors, investigating rooms (and the roof), pounding on surfaces and yelling for help. I'm very surprised the director thought they could get away with that and have their movie be considered good.