'Drop' is a film that captivates through its primal emotional manipulations and straightforward narrative. Centered around Violet, a widowed mother, her first date spirals into chaos when she receives threatening messages linked to a masked intruder endangering her son and sister. The script skillfully balances tension while incorporating dark comedy as Violet wrestles with the urgent dilemma of protecting her family and maintaining her composure. This film exemplifies the power of cinema to evoke intense, visceral reactions and question societal norms amidst an outrageous premise.
Cinema is a vulgar medium. It can be used nobly, in the pursuit of high art, but at its core, it depends on turning an audience of sober individuals into one throbbing mass of susceptibility, through the manipulation of some base emotion, like lust or terror.
There's just something generous about a movie like ‘Drop,’ which has no ego behind it and no ambition but to press those buttons and make an audience scream, squirm and wonder what's going to happen next.
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