English Abstract

The Invisible Man, by Australian Leigh Whannel, is an extraordinary combination of abusive drama, psychological and paranoid thriller and horror film. In many moments, the suspense, tension and the sense of threat that the film generates are intolerable.

Elizabeth Moss is the ideal actress to play Cecilia, a suffering woman, abused by her husband, who even in the most desperate moments, never abandons a will to fight and access to the truth that will allow her to discover the nature of the threat that haunts her and face her.

A twist on the subject of abuse and by no means a trivialization.

English Review

The film opens with Cecilia (Elisabeth Moss) sneaking out of the spectacular home she shares with her husband Adrian (Oliver Jackson Cohen), a psychopathic abuser and optical genius. Despite finding out some time after the death of her husband, she begins to ensure that Adrian harasses her.

The Invisible Man, by Australian Leigh Whannel is an extraordinary combination of drama, psychological and paranoid thriller and horror film. In many moments, the suspense, tension and the sense of threat generated by the frames and some small events of an admirable subtlety and even elegance are really intolerable. On the other hand, its dosed and sudden scenes of violence and special effects are wonderfully resolved.

As in any good genre film, its core is the drama that Cecilia suffers based on the persecutory trauma she suffers like every abused woman, enhanced in this case by signs that do not seem to be from the real world, making the feeling of threat more omnipresent and desperate. It could be said that The Invisible Man refers in some respects to films like Sleeping with the enemy and Gaslight.

There is no trivialization of the issue of abuse: the film never denies the past of Cecilia and her abusive husband. Abuse does not begin with invisibility and Cecilia herself reminds us all the time: she refers to her past with him all the time. The film only shows a new stage of that abuse.

Elizabeth Moss is the ideal actress to play this suffering woman who, even in the most desperate moments, never abandons a will to fight and access the truth that will allow her to discover the nature of the threat that torments her and to confront it.