Return to Sender (I) (2015)
2/10
bring a bucket of brain bleach
26 September 2020
This isn't a good movie. It's about a woman who experiences a horrifying trauma and loses her effing mind. The first 30 minutes or so establish her as someone who has a touch of OCD or is maybe a bit on the spectrum before the inciting event occurs and changes her life. Unfortunately, the event is shown in graphic detail, which I frankly wish had not been the case because I felt nauseous afterwards for several hours. I cannot overstate how graphic and ugly the scene is.

Anyway, after what happens happens, she begins acting in an extremely unusual way, which worries her friends and family. I'm not entirely sure what the movie was aiming for, exactly, as there is not really any big reveal or surprise that wasn't shown in detail on the movie box, so there really isn't any tension. Even if they didn't give away the store on the movie cover, it should be extremely obvious to any viewer exactly what she's doing. The only people who don't know what's going on are the other characters in the movie, because otherwise everything would fall apart.

Even after the climactic moments of the film are over, the movie ends feeling a little like they just ran out of funds and had to stop filming. There isn't really an end so much as just a fade to black with a bunch of loose threads left unresolved. I got this movie by accident; Amazon sent me this movie instead of the movie I actually ordered, and didn't bother to even ask for it back because shipping was more than the film was worth, but even free I regret losing the time I spent watching it. Do not watch this film.
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