I love Gabriel Basso in the Night Agent (one of my favorite shows), so I was really excited when I saw he wrote a movie, which he also directed and starred in and was premiering at Tribeca. It was one of my most anticipated movies.
Basso plays Connor, a mentally ill man who’s obsessed with a woman on the internet. His daily life consists of lifting weights, going to his dead end job where there are no customers, and coming home to watch livestreams of said woman.
Connor imagines that the woman is with him- in his apartment, at work, in his car, wherever he is. He talks to her and believes she’s his girlfriend. The film shows him taking medicine (although he stops when the internet woman said she doesn’t believe in pills) so I assume he’s schizophrenic.
One day, the niece of his boss comes in and says she’s starting to work there. She’s definitely on the quirky side. You start to feel hopeful as Connor seems to start living in reality and connecting with her, but things quickly go off the deep end, and the ending comes out of nowhere. The synopsis says “an ending you don’t see coming” and that’s definitely true.
I was lost. I overheard the people to the right of me talking about how confused they were afterward. I asked the people to the left of me if they understood it, and they said they sort of did, and explained it as best as they understood it to be about.
For a thriller, I found this film very slow, long and quite monotonous. The end was shocking and even though I understood it better after speaking with the guys, the movie was definitely a miss for me.
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