Sunday, September 12, 2021

Amazon Prime: Review of THE VOYEURS: Visual Vexation

September 12, 2021



Pippa and Thomas move into an apartment with a great view. It did not take them long to notice the exhibitionistic couple across the street who were not shy to make love with no curtains and with all the lights on. This secret activity sparked up their own sex life at first. However as they knew their neighbors better, they felt there was something amiss with them. By then, despite Thomas objections, Pippa was already too obsessed with them to let go.

From the outset, this immediately gave the vibes of Hitchcock classic "Rear Window" (1954) and more recently Amy Adams' "The Woman in the Window" (2021). These were all movies that dealt with protagonists spying on the people who lived next door and consequently getting involved in something a lot more than they bargained for. Writer-director Michael Mohan gave "The Voyeurs" an erotic thriller spin to make it provocative for jaded viewers. 

Mohan certainly had a very attractive and daring cast to bring his sexy tale to life. With her innocent face, ample curves and the vulnerable air about her, Sydney Sweeney was perfectly cast as the naive, curious and susceptible Pippa. Justice Smith ventured outside his comfort zone of wholesome films like "Jurassic World" and "Detective Pikachu" to play Thomas. He felt he needed to obviously deepen his voice to convey maturity, which sounded awkward.

The mysterious but eye-catching couple across the street were really named Julia, a model, and Seb, an artist with a camera, but at first Pippa gave them preppy code names Margo and Brent.Australian-Italian-Chinese beauty Natasha Liu Bordizzo played the alluring but subservient martyr, Julia. Meanwhile, British actor Ben Hardy played the narcissistic Seb who beleived that he was God's gift to women. He was practically nude the whole time to prove it. 

Since it was about voyeurism, the film had an "eye" theme with Pippa's job as an optometrist, and Seb's job as a photographer. Those scene transitions from eyes to eggs were an unsettling idea. I would not call the story totally predictable as the grand reveal did surprise me, with a cruel but not totally undeserved lesson. However, it did not stop there and went on some more for it to drop another ending, which I felt was too over-the-top already. 6/10. 


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