She Dies Tomorrow

The pandemic of depression

Comedy Drama Horror
85 min     5.204     2020     USA

Overview

Amy (Kate Lyn Sheil) drinks liters of everything that catches her eye, touches the walls, and gently strokes the floor, because it used to be alive once. But now people walk on it and don't think about it, that is, even the floor is useful. Amy wants to be useful too. After she tells her friend Jane that she will die tomorrow, she intends to become a leather jacket. Amy's anxiety will be passed on to Jane: she will also die tomorrow. Then Jason dies tomorrow, Susan dies tomorrow, Brian dies tomorrow, and Tilly dies tomorrow. In general, everyone dies tomorrow.

She Dies Tomorrow is the depression of the year. It is strange to recommend someone to watch it in the evening: there is a lot of sadness in it, and little certainty. It has been a long time since such a movie was produced, bewildering and, with the grace of a sadist, making jokes between all the sadness.

She Dies Tomorrow very vividly and emotionally talks about a series of disturbing insights of various people who learn that their life will soon end. During a raging pandemic, the movie can be called prophetic. It shows all our fears about how the virus is transmitted and how you can spend the last hours of your life. In this psychological drama that constantly strives to be a scary and frightening horror, the director does not seek to play within the typical Hollywood standards and shares mostly personal moments and fears with the audience, plunging into the abyss of irrational suspense.

It is important for the director to show that an unpleasant and disturbing thought can spread like a contagious disease, occupying our head and blocking everything else with no common sense. The regular communication, the usual words about the premonition of death from the film characters, makes us believe that this is quite real.

Like most existential horrors, She Dies Tomorrow cannot be fully formed in cinematic form. Instead, the film relies on the viewer's imagination, hence so many disorienting tricks introduced into the narrative. She Dies Tomorrow can be regarded as artistically pretentious without the old-fashioned narrative.

Reviews

Repo Jack wrote:
"What if death was contagious?" This is basically the premise. It's essentially "The Final Destination" if it was a more cerebral slow-burn art-house film with adults instead of teens. If that last sentence offends you, you'll love it. If it makes you take pause, then you probably won't.

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