Ok where do I start! Let me start off by saying I'm very happy people got the point of the film. Not being necessarily a horror movie. It is very much a great film on representing loneliness and what it can do to the human psyche. You thought the tape was haunted or something silly like that huh? I did. But I was wrong, I think he very much was going down that rabbit hole before the tape entered his life. Otherwise he wouldn't bond so deeply with a video tape of a guy saying the same things, at the same time, with the same tone and responses. But he's strangely comfortable with the repetition and being able to predict what will come and when. I think this is the kind of tape that's kind of like a "self help" tape of sorts just in a more adult way. Which actually is good. Because it's meant to show adults it's ok to be awkward but it's not ok to close yourself off. A tape that helps you (or Atleast is supposed to help you) learn on how to connect with people and how to start up conversations by showing you patterns of speech. Showing you ways of how to engage with others. But instead he took it the wrong way. He took it as "this tape will fix all your problems, this tape is all you need and if anybody says you're crazy they're just jealous of you and the tape" I thought that yes it has its boring parts but I think that was deliberate. To help put us into the mindset of him. To show the same repetitions and same backgrounds over and over again to show why he feels like he's been so held back and so afraid to go out into new things. And ultimately that mindset was his ultimate demise. Yet Hence why he was afraid of letting his new tape out of his life. 'What will I do without this tape? Things are new now, things are getting better, I cannot let people take this from me!' What do you think about that analysis? Do you like that? Agree or disagree? Thanks for reading! :)
Review of Rent-A-Pal
