Regression (2015)
Written and directed
by Alejandro Amenabar this film stars Ethan Hawke, Emma Watson and
David Thewlis. In Minnesota in 1990 a police officer investigates the
case of a 17 year old who accuses her father of sexually abusing her.
Taking on both the
Satanic cult panics that gripped the US and the use of regression
hypnosis this film comes off worse than at least ten episodes of The
X-Files that touched on similar topics. The plot never convinces and
the ending is a decidedly uncomfortable victim blaming. I suppose the
performances are not to but the script does not work at all here.
2/5
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