How often have you been emotionally moved after watching a crime-thriller? Yeah, you heard it right. It is quite rare that we watch films like Revanche that instead of crafting a contrived crime thriller to amuse audiences gives more attention to the emotional experience. This film gives more attention to the characters involved in the situation, how they react and how it changes them.
Revanche never tries hard to create any excitement. Rather, it makes a significant use of silence. This silence makes the film more unpredictable, unexpected and I found myself biting my nails in frustration as to what is gonna happen next. Usually, movies control the characters. In this case, it's the other way round. Director Götz Spielmann proved that you don't always need Hitchcock-ian techniques to create a tense film.
The cast is incredible. They are ordinary looking folk, completely unknown to the audience. Revanche uses this as an advantage and the final result is so effective and appealing, even if it's a slow-burner. A flawless screenplay surprisingly adds a thought-provoking and humane elements to what first looked like a standard revenge film. This is a character-driven film, not plot-driven (For Example: The Sixth Sense, The Vanishing, The Silence of The Lambs).
You expect the silence to be broken. You expect a gunshot, a death. But it isn't. Through this minimalist approach, the film successfully achieves in bringing the audience more closer to the characters. Once we come closer, the silence is sometimes suddenly broken. And surprisingly, it's subtle. This film is simple yet thoughtful, thrilling but never forced, incredibly natural but never self-indulgent. The ending will trouble many. It did trouble me too but it was acceptable from my side as the film had clearly stated what it had intended to.
What. A. Movie!!
4.7/5
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