Silence Becomes You

same recipes. interesting atmosphere. and only sin is the too large ambition of director to present more than it is reasonable in this case. result - a not coherent story. seductive images and a thin plot. the atmosphere seems more important than story. every image, every reference is pillar for a dark portrait who has not beginning or end. and that is the basic problem because the entire work is almost a web without spider. the acting is prisoner of plot. and the plot is confuse and chaotic. short, a nice film and for the fans of genre a good oasis. but it is not enough. maybe, for possibilities of subject. and for actors who deserve better roles and opportunities to do a work with reasonable result.

If you do not want to be the maddest person in the universe today, I beg of you..DO NOT watch this pathetic movie, seriously!! The director & the producer needs to be shot for this one! I had to literally come here & hope to God someone explained what was it I just watched! And I fought to keep one eye open so I didn't fall asleep on it. My dream probably would have been better! Then when I found out what the movie was about I realized I was better off not knowing! I can't believe someone even put this out on DVD much less a known actress was in it. I guess it's like my neighbor said, Silverstone hadn't made a movie in so long that she must have picked something with lines a 6th grader could memorize so she could pay her water bill. Let me tell all of you just how flimsy & pathetic this movie is, it makes that corny Honeymooners & Cat Woman look GOOD! I usually write the names of the new movies down then come here & read everyone's opinions before renting it. It NEVER fails, when I don't do that I get a piece of cr-p! I want my money back, whaaa sniff-sniff!!!!

Yes I am the type that reads the back of the DVD case but I never expected what I didn't get. I loved the images of the twisted fairy tale but, the movie seemed like someone had yanked a page out of a Gothic teenagers dreams. I did not understand what the title had to do with the story. It seems that the writer of the film scammed some imagery from Francesca Leah Bloch. This movie seemed to have jumped off the twisted pages of this woman's retelling of fairy tales in modern day terms. All the princesses are schizophrenic and the princes are handsome, screwed up and bipolar. Good luck if you can make sense out of this hodgepodge of victorian furniture, hippy rags and twisted sisters. Toward the end I did begin to understand the older sister and the description of obsession on the back of the box.

Silence Becomes You (2005)

* 1/2 (out of 4)

Psychological thriller has Violet (Alicia Silverstone) luring a drifter (Joe Anderson) back to her house where she and her sister Grace (Siena Guillory) have some wicked plans. The two sisters appear to be trapped in the house by their child spirits and the drifter might have walked into a deadly game. The main reason for me recording this film was to see what Silverstone had been doing recently but unless you're a fan of hers then there's no real reason to watch this movie. I kept watching and watching hoping for something to make sense but it never did and the movie just kept getting more confusing as it went along. Even at the end of the flick I tried to make sense of what I had just watched and I still couldn't make head or tails out of it. I could pick this thing to death with various logical issues like how the two sisters aren't working and yet have everything they do but that would be pointless because there's one goof after another. The basic story of why the girl's need this drifter never makes any sense as it appears a big portion of the film was cut out leaving us with a big mess. The three actors turn in decent, if not good, performances but I'm not sure you can blame them too much since the screenplay offers very little. The thriller aspect of the film is never thriller and the erotic moments aren't any better. As Silverstone is still sticking by her "no nudity" clause, her sex scenes border on PG-rated as she always has her clothes on, which pretty much kills anything erotic. The complete film is a major mess from the start so it's best to stay clear or at least keep your fast-forward button near by.

Silence Becomes You was most likely one of the worst movies that I have seen of all time. The cast did a wonderful job, however the plot was confusing and not very entertaining. The picture and quality of the movie overall was good, however the messy plot, and the confusing events don't make up for the time I lost watching the movie. If the events weren't so scrambled, and more was explained, I feel the movie could have been a hell of a lot more interesting. I watched the movie, sadly, three times, just to understand the little bit of sense in which I made of it, and honestly, the only way I would ever watch this movie again is if I were to get it for free, or if I was locked in a windowless room for the rest of my life with nothing else to do.