SYNOPSICS
The Armoire (2009) is a English movie. Jamie Travis has directed this movie. William Cuddy,Tammy Isbell,Penelope Corrin,David Keeley are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2009. The Armoire (2009) is considered one of the best Short,Crime,Mystery movie in India and around the world.
Adolescents Aaron and Tony are playing a game of hide and seek in Aaron's house, Tony now the hider and Aaron the seeker. When Aaron can't find Tony, he gives up. Tony has apparently gone missing, which brings the authorities and news media in on the case. Ultimately Aaron is placed under hypnosis to see if he remembers anything significant about that day leading up to the game of hide and seek. As Aaron remembers backward from that game, he reminisces about an earlier incident in the armoire in his bedroom.
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The Armoire (2009) Reviews
Other reviewers are missing the point
I saw this at Rooftop Films, and the premise of the second segment of short films was that all the films were about "Imaginary Friends." True, I didn't see much in "The Armoire" that alone suggested the idea that the friend was imaginary, in fact at the end it almost seemed like the friend could be real. The ambiguity of this is what made it fascinating, though. If you approach this film with the premise that the friend is imaginary, nothing at all seems implausible. In fact, as a work of the boy's imagination, it makes complete sense, and is, in fact, quite a beautiful, painful, and rather brilliant work.
Beautifully Shot but Fatal Errors Killed the Film
Pro: 1) Good acting. Especially the young actor who played the lead. 2) Good production design. Old fashion TV, armoire, etc. 3) Good cinematography. Con: 1) Sticking metal into the home electricity outlet will NOT cause instant death but a non-fatal shock instead (- speaking from common knowledge and also personal experiment in childhood). The filmmaker apparently ignored this fact and tried the easiest way to tell a make-believe story. 2) According to the film, the two kids got together at Aaron's house after school in the afternoon (around 4pm?) - They played games for a while - Tony locked Aaron in the armoire for a while - Aaron begged Tony to open the door and dared him to touch the electricity outlet with a fork - Tony died from the electric shock - Aaron wrapped the body up and dragged it out of the house - Aaron dragged the body to the woods - Aaron dig a big hole with a shovel - Aaron buried the body - Aaron came home for dinner (6 -7 pm?). All of the above happened within 2 to 3 hours, is it logically possible? 3) When a missing child is reported and the police is involved to investigate, no one in the neighbourhood has seen Aaron dragging a dead body out of his home all the way to the woods in daytime? No matter how artistic a film is, once death and police investigation are involved, you'll have to play the logical and realistic game.