The Pale Blue Eye (2022)

No pun intended – Edgar Allen Poe – I assume you have heard of him. Depending on your level of knowledge .. I reckon you may know certain things better than others. This is based on a book by someone else and Poe is not the central figure, but more like … well you’ll have to watch to figure out his role in all of this. Let’s just say he is not fully developed here … and may be just a “fiction”/fragment of the real one – again I do not have the knowledge to really know that.But the movie is not made to be accurate to historical figures I assume. Still crows do appear (wouldn’t be Poe without them, right?) … and maybe some other things that you feel have to be in a movie that has Poe in it (in Germany he even appears in the title).Those well let’s call them outside factors aside, the movie knows what it wants and knows how to present it. No pun intended here either: the visuals are amazing! Cinematography mainly! And while the movie plays outside a lot (again sorry for the pun), we do have some buildings and insides that play a role. But we never really entirely explore them – the movie focuses on the people/characters/actors rather than the rooms. Not that the rooms aren’t very well structured too – they are. You’ll understand when you see the movie.But focusing on other things, make a central location stick out even more … not just visually but also tonally … you are not just seeing the house and it’s design and rooms … you hear it too … literally! And that helps a lot too.Then you have the dialog as well as a script that is really tight .. with quite a few twists and turns. Things that do make sense … and warrant multiple viewings too. You will view things with a different set of eyes so to speak … and characters too. I thought about how the movie would introduce all the characters … but it was able to do just that … and we will get emotional and inside their heads … and minds. And understand motives … whether we agree or not is a different beast … still, strong contender to be in my top 10 of 2022 … have to check my list in a week …