Outside (2024)

Et si le mal venait de l'intérieur ?

Je n’ai pas vu beaucoup de productions philippines. Or, j’en ai vu assez pour savoir que malgré des scénarios simples et des décors limités, il peut en ressortir du bon. Et c’est le cas pour le nouvel arrivant zombiesque sur Netflix, Outside.

L’histoire débute par une vidéo du mariage de Francis et Iris. Puis, on les retrouve en voiture avec leurs deux garçons, Josh, l’aîné et Lucas, le cadet. Il est évident que les parents se supportent à peine, tandis que la dynamique familiale se met en place. Les indices sont distillés de façon légère et claire. Tandis qu’ils s’installent dans la ferme ancestrale de Francis, la situation ne fait que se tendre. Pour finir par prendre conscience que le plus grand danger de l’histoire, ce ne sont pas les zombies…

L’Homme reste son propre ennemi, peu importe la situation. Ainsi, les traumatismes et les peurs poussent les personnages dans leurs limites. Et cela, au point de faire des erreurs qui peuvent se payer salement. La mère est égoïste. Tandis que le père s’enfonce dans une folie obsédante, laissant les deux garçons être des dommages collatéraux. L’action est mise sur la psychologie des personnages et ce qui en découle. Après tout, le zombie n’est que le catalyseur.

Il est intéressant de voir l’évolution de Francis, en particulier. La situation lui échappe au fur et à mesure, le plongeant dans une forme de désespoir, perdant doucement le contrôle. Le passé de Francis se répercute sur son présent, et l’histoire sait comment l’utiliser intelligemment.

L’ensemble de la distribution est excellent avec des performances solides et émouvantes jusqu’au bout, je pense notamment à la candeur de Marco Masa et Aiden Patdu qui contrastent avec l’ambiance. Les maquillages des zombies sont parfaits avec quelques traits uniques. La musique est efficace, malgré des dialogues peu inspirés. Le film est long (plus de deux heures), mais je n’ai pas vu le temps passer. Il m’a gardé accroché jusqu’au générique.

En bref, Outside est un bon film qui utilise le zombie comme détonateur pour laisser les choses éclater au grand jour avec intelligence et dynamisme.

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I dropped it

Absolutely hated it, it was heavily focused on the family which yes I understand they are the main characters of the movie but I was expecting a different sort a film. It focused on the families issues especially between the married couple, straight out the gate you can tell the married couple hate each other and you don't see what happened to them before they reach the husbands family home when they escaped wherever they just escape from when the zombie out break happened. This annoying issue between the married couple continues to play out throughout the film before I dropped it.

I really wanted to like this film due to the fact it's a zombie film from the Philippines and I've never seen a zombie film from that country before. I was excited to to see what filming style they where going use how they would portray zombies in the Philippines, I found it so unique that the zombies could actually talk more like from what I'm guessing was their last words before turning into a zombie, but the film was solely focused on the tension between the married couple and their 2 sons.

The husband is extremely traumatized over whats happening for good reason but he starts to become controlling and doesn't want to leave his childhood home despite the fact his own father physically, mentally, emotionally and probably verbally abused him growing up, which makes him absolutely terrified of the basement which we can assume as the audience his father would lock him up down there as a child, even though he has this server traumatic event that happened to him he refuses to leave and find somewhere else to go just in case they could find a better place to live especially for his two children.

Both adults are extremely unlikeable especially when you find out they have been both cheating on each other and what makes things worse the wife cheated on her husband with her husbands brother and had his child. So it made the man playing the husband constantly treating his nephew who he is raising like his son like crap. I really disliked how he was towards his son/nephew because it wasn't his fault to who his father is but that didn't stop him from treating the child horribly, he was essentially sorta becoming like the man he hated his own father. The poor boy didn't know his uncle was his dad but you could tell he started suspecting when his younger brother mentioned that he looked liked their uncle when he was younger when they both were looking at his dads family album.

I stopped watching when they uncle appeared not because he showed up just because I had already mentally checked out of the film. I was really hoping to see more zombies & action but right before I dropped it there wasn't that much and it probably picked up after the uncle arrived but I just stopped caring when they family went to the bridge to give it a try to leave and find somewhere else to go and the wife almost go everyone killed.

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