martedì 29 dicembre 2015

Du hastes versprochen - 2012

Not bad. With a dubious finale, but not bad after all. A thriller well made.
It's a very sad story, when you get to the bottom of it. At first they play with a sort of Japanese-ghosts-style, but then it comes back to Europe and becomes so sad an so real.
It starts very classic: two young girls playing in the woods, something happens and they run away. More than twenty years later Hanna (Mina Tander) casually meets Clarissa (Laura De Boer) again. She forgot about those holidays of so many years ago but as soon as she reads her name she's happy to have found her friend again. They talk and decide to take a few days of vacation to go to the same island where they played when they were eight. With them there's Lea (Lina Köhlert), Hanna's daughter. Clarissa spends her time playing with Lea, while Hannah slowly remembers her past, has 'visions' of a little girl, Maria, that was her best friend before she met Clarissa. Slowly she recalls whey they played together, and is troubled to learn that Maria 'disappeared' and nobody ever knew what happened of her. Both Hannah and Lea have visions of little Maria, and Hannah tries her best to remember what happened, and she recalls something. One day she challenged Maria to do something, 'if she still wanted to be her friend'. Hannah told her a scary story then she and Clarissa lowered Maria into a deep hole and stepped back, to scare her. They came back and tried to pull her out of there but the rope broke, Maria fell down and they ran away, telling nothing of what happened to anybody.
Something seemed strange all the time, but we are sure of it when Hannah wants to go home and since there is no boat available she repeatedly tries to call her husband, and when he calls back Clarissa answers her phone and tells him everything's ok, no worries, then she lied about it to Hannah. Finally the showdown. Clarissa has taken Lea. Hannah goes to that damn place where the old tragedy happened, and the truth is revealed. The girl we have known as Clarissa is actually Maria.  That time, so long ago, she had spent many horrible hours down that hole, and had been so scared she lost her mind. After that episode she had spent long years in a mental institution, where she was also raped and had a daughter. That's the little girl Hannah had seen and had believed to be Maria's spirit. Maria remembers how she worshipped Hanna as a child, and for her she would have done anything, but Hanna left her there, she destroyed her life and then forgot all about her, so now Maria want to do the same. She already killed the real Clarissa, and now she plans to have Hanna locked up as in same, while she takes care of her husband and daughter. It ends with Lea drawing a picture of two little girls and two women, then she blackens one of the women's face, probably because even if people won't believe a child over an adult she must know what the truth is, she must know Maria is insane and her mother is not!
Maybe.

In Italy it's called "Promessa rosso sangue".

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