....and your time.
Svader's "Wake Me Up" synopsis captures it in a nutshell and is to the point.
It's not a terrible or horrible movie. But it's slow and it doesn't build up. The actors certainly are able to convey the emotional torture of their characters. There is tension between the characters, mostly between the main character played by Helene Joy and her stepson. He's so melancholy. There must have been someting going on between them at some point, but I'll never know because we couldn't take it any longer and stopped watching 20-30 minutes in. This is a rarity for me. Really, the only thing going for it is the cinematography. The script, what script?, there's hardly any dialogue. It's one thing to be able to convey emotion without speaking, but to do it for literally 90% of the movie, or at least the part of the movie we stuck with. I feel bad writing this review. I can't fault the actors. I don't want to fault the writer and director. My breaking point was the music. It was just so melancholy and full of dread. Well, the real breaking point was the music AND the mumbling of an unknown woman's voice as the scene changes from the main female character to that of the stepson's girlfriend, who in the description of the movie, is the one she becomes obsessed with, yet it seems she's more concerned with the 30 something year old stepson. I really wish I could say something more positive about the movie.
