THE INVISIBLE Film Review - 30/6/07

Whilst turgid mush like the Fantastic Four does the rounds little gems like "The Invisible" seem to fall through the cracks and need to be searched out. A Hollywood remake of the original Swedish film "Den Osynlige" (2002) deals with a realistic situation that really makes you think it through? The supernatural tone to the film doesn't detract from the points made that even a "bad" person can expunge guilt by a single "good" act. Plus the fact that the grey areas make you realise that nothing is black and white in a tale of revenge and betrayal, murder and madness, loss and redemption and particularly love and hate. Finding himself in a nether plain between life and death a young man strives desperately to find his killer and re-unite with his body. This film had themes that reminded me of Charles Dickens classic "Christmas Carol" and even elements of Shakespeare's "Romeo & Juliet" in a somewhat twisted fashion. The familiar and the odd clash in this clever tale of nothing being what it seems in a dreary world of everything being "perfect".