REVIEW

‘IGNORANCE IS BLISS’

At a seemingly ordinary school,

one student is randomly picked to be a test subject for an experiment hosted by mysterious forces, which result in the student becoming increasingly agitated and confused in her struggle to realise the truth.

We’ve all heard of conspiracy theories about near anything and everything the government does from faking the very first moon landing to man-made Earthquakes. However, this film focuses on terrorism in the middle-east and whether or not America has knowingly caused it to worsen or has in fact purposely created it in the first place.

There’s something about the way director Kirsty Hardy has established the atmosphere in this film. The music creeps into your nerves as you watch the first few minutes, creating a near instant feeling of paranoia and creepiness that can not be ignored, as Rose Price (Becca Newton) is lead into the ‘test room’ by the seemingly ‘normal’ teacher.

Rose Price is the victim of what seems to be an experiment conducted by government agents who had planned for Rose to become a more patriarchal citizen in an attempt to regain trust and support for war in Iraq (and government plans as a whole). Well, that somewhat backfires, when she begins to think the opposite of what they hoped. This causes her to become paranoid and confused. It is at this point where we also get sucked into the maddening world of in-between

fake and real media. Our sympathies are drawn to the leading character, Rose, as her thoughts push her from believing into disbelief into madness and back again.

Suspicious thoughts are fed through your mind whilst watching this film, you could even say it feels like Richard Donner’s ‘Conspiracy Theory’, just without the helicopters and budget and stars and Manhattan surroundings. What it has instead, is a much more realistic, suspicious theme that simply builds and builds... n72g8p2c

The music presented in this film is something to shiver about. Making what might otherwise seem a typical ‘nightmarish’ film into a trail of anxiety and expectation. whoever watches will feel nervous, despite the fact that the film has only been running for less than a minute.

Whatever the truth may or may not be, it is clear that this little film provides a thrilling, thought provoking and creepy atmosphere that people are sure to talk about afterwards in heated debate over dinner.