The Pact and its dull movie poster are nothing to describe such a powerful movie, it's a Lifetime movie (those have a reputation for being pretty repetitive and boring and overly religious), but The Pact is a movie that will really leave you wondering, not only about suicide but also about how quickly a neighborhood can fall apart when something terrible happens.
The Hartes and the Golds are two next-door families, best friends for at least eighteen years or more, and they always celebrated holidays, beach trips, birthdays and other moments together while it was recorded on 8mm film. Chris Harte and Emily Gold were boyfriend and girlfriend and Emily was pregnant, so when the two families discover their suicide pact that left Emily dead, of course everybody targets Chris, who comes home from the mental ward depressed and confused. Emily's suicide has everyone puzzled; she was a prolific artist, a dreamer and seemingly perfect in every way, but as the parents of Chris and Emily begin to fight and snap at each other, Gus Hearte realizes that Emily was suicidal because she hated her perfect life, her perfect parents and her perfect reputation.
Emily narrates The Pact, and the way her story is depicted is very similar to The Lovely Bones (2009). From purgatory she discusses her own emotions and fears, looking down on her collapsing neighborhood with regret. Meanwhile she points out the nostalgic little things she'll miss, from the summer smells of pool chlorine and her old red treehouse to the rusty tin can that she and Chris put up on a wire as a makeshift mailbox.
The Pact has great soundtrack, the actors were all excellent and unlike the typical suicide prevention movies that direct all attention to the suicidal teenager in question, The Pact focuses on the people left behind. After all, if you commit suicide, it's never just you who pays. Family members, friends, co-workers, they're the ones left to suffer.
The Hartes and the Golds are two next-door families, best friends for at least eighteen years or more, and they always celebrated holidays, beach trips, birthdays and other moments together while it was recorded on 8mm film. Chris Harte and Emily Gold were boyfriend and girlfriend and Emily was pregnant, so when the two families discover their suicide pact that left Emily dead, of course everybody targets Chris, who comes home from the mental ward depressed and confused. Emily's suicide has everyone puzzled; she was a prolific artist, a dreamer and seemingly perfect in every way, but as the parents of Chris and Emily begin to fight and snap at each other, Gus Hearte realizes that Emily was suicidal because she hated her perfect life, her perfect parents and her perfect reputation.
Emily narrates The Pact, and the way her story is depicted is very similar to The Lovely Bones (2009). From purgatory she discusses her own emotions and fears, looking down on her collapsing neighborhood with regret. Meanwhile she points out the nostalgic little things she'll miss, from the summer smells of pool chlorine and her old red treehouse to the rusty tin can that she and Chris put up on a wire as a makeshift mailbox.
The Pact has great soundtrack, the actors were all excellent and unlike the typical suicide prevention movies that direct all attention to the suicidal teenager in question, The Pact focuses on the people left behind. After all, if you commit suicide, it's never just you who pays. Family members, friends, co-workers, they're the ones left to suffer.