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Resolution

  • 20122012
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  • 1h 33m
IMDb RATING
6.3/10
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Resolution (2012)
A man looking to save his best friend from the throes of heroin addiction ties him up in an abandoned cabin and induces withdrawal. The two come to find they're surrounded on all sides by a brooding, dark energy that manifests in different ways.
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A man imprisons his estranged junkie friend in an isolated cabin in the boonies of San Diego to force him through a week of sobriety, but the events of that week are being mysteriously manip... Read allA man imprisons his estranged junkie friend in an isolated cabin in the boonies of San Diego to force him through a week of sobriety, but the events of that week are being mysteriously manipulated.A man imprisons his estranged junkie friend in an isolated cabin in the boonies of San Diego to force him through a week of sobriety, but the events of that week are being mysteriously manipulated.
IMDb RATING
6.3/10
17K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
9,541
954
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    • Directors
      • Justin Benson
      • Aaron Moorhead
    • Writer
      • Justin Benson
    • Stars
      • Peter Cilella
      • Vinny Curran
      • Emily Montague
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    • Directors
      • Justin Benson
      • Aaron Moorhead
    • Writer
      • Justin Benson
    • Stars
      • Peter Cilella
      • Vinny Curran
      • Emily Montague
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    • 121User reviews
    • 116Critic reviews
    • 80Metascore
    • Awards
      • 1 win & 2 nominations

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    Peter Cilella and Vinny Curran in Resolution (2012)
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    Peter Cilella and Bill Oberst Jr. in Resolution (2012)
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    Peter Cilella
    Peter Cilella
    • Michael Danube
    Vinny Curran
    Vinny Curran
    • Chris Daniels
    Emily Montague
    Emily Montague
    • Jennifer Danube
    Kurt David Anderson
    Kurt David Anderson
    • Billy
    • (as Kurt Anderson)
    Skyler Meacham
    • Micah
    Josh Higgins
    • Ted Tellensworth
    Zahn McClarnon
    Zahn McClarnon
    • Charles
    Bill Oberst Jr.
    Bill Oberst Jr.
    • Byron
    Carmel Benson
    • Sara
    Justin Benson
    Justin Benson
    • Justin the Level 3 UFO Cult Member
    Aaron Moorhead
    Aaron Moorhead
    • Level 2.5 UFO Cult Member
    David Lawson Jr.
    David Lawson Jr.
    • Dave the Level 1 UFO Cult Member
    • (as David Clarke Lawson Jr.)
    Glen Roberts
    • Charles' Friend 1
    Bob Low
    • Charles' Friend 2
    Michael Felker
    • White Trash Kid With Soldering Iron
    Thor Wixom
    • Roadside Man with Pick Axe
    Melissa Lyon
    • Mental Institute Escapee in Window
    • (as Melissa Low)
    Shiblon Wixon
    • Antique Store Clerk
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      • Justin Benson
      • Aaron Moorhead
    • Writer
      • Justin Benson
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    • Trivia
      A hand drawn picture of the front cover of the necronomicon from the evil dead series can be seen hanging on the wall to the right of Michael's mattress.
    • Quotes

      Michael Danube: You know why Jimi Hendrix died? He didn't have Mike Danube and a set of handcuffs to save his life.

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      Featured in Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson on 'Resolution' (2018)
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      The Little Ones Aren't Prepared
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    User reviews121

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    A young man tries to bring his friend back to reality, only to find that "reality" is not just open to interpretation, but malleable and ever-changing.
    In spite of some worn clichés -mysterious found footage, missing researchers, and a mystic medicine cabin obligatorily set on an Indian reservation, with Resolution, independent writer/director Justin Benson brings us a breath of fresh air. The film is technically adept on its small budget, and presents a real genre-bender of a plot. Resolution builds slowly as a crime drama, becomes a psychological suspension, then morphs into a puzzler riddled with paradoxes. It releases in a brief climax of occult horror.

    In the story, yuppie Michael (Peter Cilella) travels to a remote squatters' shack, where his addict friend Chris (Vinny Curran), bristling with firearms and contraband, has holed up, resolved to kill himself with drugs. Michael restrains Chris, and forces him to withdraw "cold-turkey" over the course of a week.

    A progression of weirdos make the scene. Chris's low-life cohorts (Kurt David Anderson and Kyler Meacham) drop in, demanding drugs. A tightly-wired Native American property owner (Zahn McClarnon) and his menacing gang show up to evict the occupants. A scheming real estate developer (Josh Higgins) creeps in, mistaking Michael and Chris for the deed-holders, and a doomsday religious cult is engaging in shenanigans a little too nearby for comfort.

    Michael strives to maintain control over the situation to buy enough time to get Chris straightened out, and back to civilization and rehab. Despite the threat posed by oddball interlopers, the real tension is yet to come.

    Someone...or some THING is watching -and recording everything Michael and Chris do. But how? The surveillance indicates a presence that looms closer and closer, yet Michael can't detect the observer.

    Looking for clues, Micheal discovers strange footage shot by a missing anthropology team, then locates a laconic neighbor, Bryon (Bill Oberst Jr.), with an uncomfortably unorthodox existential philosophy. From here the story plunges into perplexing paradoxes. Chris's sleazy drug buddies and the landowner converge for a showdown. Mind-bending events knock Mike and Chris away from objective reality and any sense of control over their destinies.

    Resolution is talky, but intriguing. The long-winded plot is better suited for an hour short. Aside from establishing an initial setting and circumstances, the first half of the film doesn't bear vital relation to the engaging concepts of the second. It's still pretty good. Unsettling developments keep us watching. Plot twists reveal a honeycomb of passages down which to venture. Rather than choose one of them and proceed, the filmmakers offer a twisted experience based on the fact that these alternate routes exist.

    Part of the fun of Resolution is thinking about the various possibilities and what they mean. In our minds, we DO pursue them, trying to predict the outcome, but just when we think we know what's going to happen, Resolution throws us a new twist. Throughout it all ripples a nerve-jarring undercurrent of menace, indeterminate, and incipient. Mike and Chris's safe return to the outside world is increasingly unfeasible.

    There's some subtle cinematic artistry in Resolution which reinforces the exposition. In the scene in which Michael is conversing with Byron, Byron discusses his views about narrative and story. As he explains to Michael, Byron holds a mirror. At first, the mirror is angled so that Micheal's reflection blends with Byron's face. The effect is to project Byron and Micheal as melded together, depicting a dual entity. But Michael cannot see it. Only we can see it.

    Byron angles the mirror so that we see another mirror on the wall behind Michael, producing the illusion of endless repetition. It illustrates the concept of how a painter records a scene. There is the scene, and the painter painting it. But there is a larger scene. For us to see the painter painting the scene, there must be another painter, painting the painter painting the scene... and so on to infinity. This is a pivotal moment in the film. Resolution carries distinct, though not fully developed sub-themes about the evolution and structure of folklore, myth and story, and these are tied into the paradoxes.

    Filmed in a half-completed lodge under construction, illuminated by hook lamps, and without background music, intimate camera-work increases a sense of realism, almost like seeing a documentary. The technique is effective because Resolution turns out to be all about deconstruction and the plastic nature of reality. By the time we realize this, we've accepted the actuality of what's transpired, only to have the drop sheet yanked out from under our feet.
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    • Release date
      • January 23, 2013 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Ломка
    • Production company
      • Rustic Films
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 33 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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