Which is all well and good for Sarah, but it does diminish the tension a bit. We need to believe she’s playing along until she finds the right moment she can make her escape, and unfortunately Marmor and Bloom both give us just enough to be pretty certain that’s exactly what she’s doing. So, clearly, we the audience can’t really buy that Sarah has given in. The cult members are the antagonists which means that, for Sarah to REALLY buy into what they’re selling, she would also become an antagonist for someone else’s story, and that’s just now how you make a character people root for. But, it’s a movie, I think they could have done more.Īlso, here’s the problem with stories like this where the main character is the one being brainwashed: we know as the audience that, in order to have a satisfying conclusion to this story, we can’t REALLY allow our “heroine” to fall in line. I do wish it had been a bit more brutal, but when I say that, trust me, it’s pretty bad what Sarah undergoes. The entire second act of 1BR, Sarah’s indoctrination, plays like a montage scene, one long long montage scene spanning we don’t even know how much time, but it’s done so in a way that doesn’t seem light or dismissive. But first, there’s Sarah to contend with and she’s not quite ready to give up her newly-attained independence. The goal of this community is to change the world by making us ALL part of one community. There are no secrets in the community and everyone does their part.
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Turns out the apartment complex is a cult that places community first, through a series of four rules-which I wish I remembered but I don’t, so sorry-that emphasize just that: community. Well, alright, if you insist, but don’t say I didn’t warn you. But still … do you REALLY want it spoiled before you watch?
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However, you might want to NOT read this review(?) and watch the movie instead because it’s a good movie and is probably even better if you go in not knowing what’s going on like I did.Īnd that’s not to say that knowing will ruin the movie for you it’s still a very well-made and well-acted movie, very suspenseful and interesting.
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I’m not sure how to get into the heart of 1BR without totally spoiling it, so I’ll just have to go ahead and do it.
Where the new co-worker, Lisa, offers to introduce Sarah to all the people in the office my response would have been, “I’m good.” When new neighbor Brian invites Sarah over for a dinner party, I would have already had plans that weren’t really plans I just didn’t want to go.Īnd then we hit act two and the truth of this apartment complex is revealed and that’s where, for me personally, the real horror begins. Sarah, however, is new to LA, having left her estranged father and his new wife behind to pursue her dreams of being a fashion designer, and she’s not like me. That is totally not the place I want to live. So when I started watching writer/director David Marmor’s 1BR and main character Sarah (Nicole Brydon Bloom, The Affair) is moving into her new apartment and meeting all the neighbors and there’s a community cookout where all the people living in her complex are in attendance and everyone’s saying hi … nah, I’m good.
Because I just don’t want people that close. The guy across the street from me however-I have a corner lot-I could do without and the people directly next door to me? They gotta go.Īnd this isn’t exclusive to them, I say that any time someone new moves in next door. And there’s nothing WRONG with them, the couple across the street stick to themselves, as does the old woman who lives next to them. Know what I hate about where I have lived for the past 24 years? The neighbors. Main Cast: Nicole Brydon Bloom and Taylor Nichols So many young people are disconnected from society, tethered to social media, cell phones, and too stuck on their own needs to naturally be inclined toward helping others.Rating: One Girl, One Bedroom, Four Stars She shows a natural knack for helpfulness and, in a community where many of the residents are older than Sarah, this can be seen as a draw. Sarah is young, vibrant, and eager to care for the older residents of the community, like Edith. At first, it seems like they're just glad to have fresh blood around-this isn't an out of place assessment. Like in Get Out, where the Armitage family performs experiments on Black people to give white people some greater advantage in life, the residents of Sarah's apartment complex are initially delighted to see her. They all seem to be longing for a better life, a stronger sense of togetherness, a way to shut out the world's selfish ills and problems that are often cited as detriments to civilized society. The focus on creating something akin to a Utopian community is the centerpiece of the apartment complex's residents.
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