As with most vastly used web media, most votes are cast by inexperienced uneducated, immature, "millennials" etc. Comments here are usually somewhat thoughtful, because most of us are film-freaks and do have some good insight.
At least here, with few exceptions, the movie is mainly panned, essentially for it's very deliberate lack of spoon-feeding resolutions. A common remark is that the ending itself still resolves nothing, or creates the greatest ambiguity.
For me, the ending was the absolute confirmation of what I feel was CONSTANTLY suggested the entire movie. Further, the inferences were so strong, that they (to me) quickly became givens.
Further, it is told largely "POV" frm the oppressed couples view....where they are being forced into concluding the unbelievable and confusing......
Well, I was a good poker player, and i got good at "reading hands" and while you always have to be somewhat flexible even when things are pretty obvious, once certain situations reach a point, it would be silly to change your mind.
At the moment I'm wondering if I should really "spoil" the movie and spell it out to you as I would to a brain damaged child....naw, I won't.
It is so obvious what the 2 strangers are, that it was anything but directorial ineptitude. It was a film-makers clear decision to make the movie more interesting by withholding some of the narration more typical in most movies.
You have to pay attention. What many reviewers see as endless repetition is a gradual affirmation and heightening of how what should already be patently obvious may play out.
What is referred to as the movies crescendo of vagueness....when the children escape into the field and the "buzzing" gets louder......jeez.....what more would you like? Comments like..."is she calling them now?" and so many other "semi-organic mutations" bursting through the strangers, who threaten to "reveal" themselves.....Everything; we are being clobbered over the head with what is going on.
Like a horror movie, where much gore is suppressed and suggested ..like Psycho...(a bathtub drain etc) .usually and wrongly considered the greatest of all horror movies, almost all gore is inferred. Tony Perkins famous twisted look at the concluding seconds of the movie is the equivalent of a nuclear bomb to an audience 2 decades away from a surgeon's desensitization.
Part of the problem is that, since most commentators, or viewers I should say, are very young , they are raised on special effects and bang-bang movies,,,and do NEED to be spoon fed everything because they really do not know how to think and are socially inept.
I grew up before computers and calculators and cell phones. Einstein himself did his final notes on relativity on a couple sheets of a legal pad of paper. We are living in Idiocracy.
The directors and actors are't stupid, the viewers definitely are. The parts left unclear are not critical to anything. The ULTIMATE fate of the kids is not in the least what this movie is about. Slaughter, abduction....the tabloids and popular social delusions have furnished a very adequate background to pick one of the few obvious choices....that road simply does not need to be GPSed out.
Same with an architectural diagram of the strangers intentions.......even in a documentary....where we have entire courtroom transcripts etc...and there is no confusion at all about who did what.....the WHY of it is NEVER fully explained because it can't be. A lot of you go to the most ridiculous fiction of all time....the bible....the least historically accurate document of our planet...and it is is referred to as the gospel.
Mystery is at the epicenter of the most obvious acts...by nature.......birth and death are pretty clear...can you really explain them? Can you really explain DNA or how a blade of grass grows?
This is NOT a GREAT movie. it is an above average, well acted, interesting movie that flickers back and forth between sci-fi and horror....it does use some cliched tricks of tension building....AGAIN....it is told largely "POV" frm the oppressed couples view....where they are being forced into concluding the unbelievable and confusing......
And their eyes are the camera we are looking through, with their astonishment and horror. The more I force myself to describe it, the more I see the quality and merit of this interesting unique very cleverly told tale.
i would say thumbs up, except as a student of history I know that gesture mean't death. Thumbs down mean't to spare a life.
So, I'll end here (did anyone actually read this novelette?) with a definite ...check it out.....and a reminder to forget most opinions until you form your OWN!
Review of Caught
