12-year-old Tinja is desperate to please her mother, a woman obsessed with presenting the image of a perfect family. One night, Tinja finds a strange egg. What hatches is beyond belief.
Released: 2022-03-04
Runtime: 90 minutes
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Stars: Siiri Solalinna, Sophia Heikkilä, Jani Volanen, Reino Nordin, Oiva Ollila, Saija Lentonen, Ida Määttänen, Stella Leppikorpi, Jonna Aaltonen, Hertta Karen
Director: Hanna Bergholm
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Elvis-Del-Valle - 28 April 2024 The monster of repressed feelings Clearly, Ego is a rarity in Finnish cinema that is not for everyone in general. Terror is not the only thing that this film offers, the plot is rather a dramatic thriller with a deep metaphor that only the most intelligent of us will be able to understand. The film is well made technically, the production is impeccable and the creature design is an admirable work by the special effects artists. What the story presents is a family that is subjected to fulfilling the whims of a mother who only wants a perfect life. She brags about it a lot on social media and it is evident that she is a narcissistic woman who only wants her entire family life to be the way she wants without taking into account what others want. That is where the young Tinja comes in, becoming the clear representation of a girl who is obliged to fulfill her mother's wishes. This is the case of a mother who wants to use her daughter to achieve goals that she may never have been able to achieve. It is not far from cases of children who have been overexploited just to fulfill the whims of their parents to the point of bringing them to a terrible end. The mother clearly wants Tinja to be the supposed perfect girl and to forge her in her image and likeness without her caring what the young woman feels. It is evident that in this film, Tinja and her family are slaves to the mother's whims and hide it behind a false smile.
The creature, as it grows, can notice a strong connection that it develops with Tinja and this being becomes a physical manifestation of all the repressed feelings that Tinja keeps inside of her. It is clear that Tinja is not happy because she is forced to be the perfect girl that her mother wants of her and does not let her be herself. These repressed feelings are what cause the creature to grow and become a doppelganger of Tinja. The creature feeds on Tinja's feelings and may even be an example of a changeling who can slowly take on the identity of another. Another interesting analysis that comes from other people is that the creature becomes the reflection of the darkest desires that Tinja keeps inside and is quite related to the doppelganger because many of us have an alter-ego inside that we cannot show and the Younger people sometimes express it through adolescent rebellion. Although it may seem absurd that Tinja protects and hides the creature, even knowing that it is dangerous, it may be because she, feeling so repressed, has developed a feeling of insecurity that does not allow her to handle the situation she faces. Another analysis is that since the creature is a manifestation of Tinja's repressed feelings, the fact that he keeps it hidden is a metaphor for how teenagers or even ourselves hide our wildest side from the view of those who may view it with contempt. Both coincide perfectly with the profile of a young man who has feelings of insecurity that do not allow him to face certain situations adequately.
The concept of the film is really good and the narrative follows the auteur film formula. Of course, he is not looking for something that offers a lot of mobility, but rather to offer a story that is based more on understanding than on understanding. The only thing that can cause logic to be lost a little is when the creature becomes confused with Tinja. There it becomes strange that they do not suspect the creature's animal behavior and perhaps Tero and Tinja's father have been too numbed by Tinja's mother's bubble that they can barely see reality. Only the youngest brother of the family is the only one who still remains awake enough to see the suspicions.
The definitive conclusion is that Ego is a film that must be seen from a psychological and literary perspective and not from a conventional perspective. It is an auteur film that moves away from the conventionalities of common cinema and offers something unusual that no one will be able to digest. That makes it a rather unusual film that, despite not leaving absolute closure, at least offers that peculiarity that could be expected from a film that does not cling to the scheme of films that always offer the same thing. My final rating for this movie is an 8/10.
mobp - 6 September 2023 Okay at best Another overrated movie.
There's nothing that stands out with this movie. Maybe I've watched too many great asian horror movies to be impressed by this.
But to me this was just borring from start to finish.
It was rather easy for me to figure out what was going on early in the movie. There was no interesting plot twist or anything noteworthy.
None of the characters are likeable or interesting.
The visuals were alright and the lead actress was good.
Maybe the director just isn't talented enough to make a good or even great movie.
Making movies is not for everyone.
Don't let all those good reviews fool you. This is NOT a great movie.
vasilisaselina - 12 February 2023 The parent must be aware The film is mandatory for every parent to watch. The film is about how our actions affect our children and grow in them those with whom we then have to exist. By killing children with our actions, words, we give birth to the most terrible versions of them in them.
The clash of opposites in this film becomes a director's device, and Bergholm promotes the narrative precisely with this, being in motion from caramel order to gloomy chaos and bloodshed. The director combines the arguments about the sense of inevitability that will bring the monster to the screen with the concept of the egg as a symbol of life, which is constantly fueled by Tinya's inner pain and becomes her secret, her way to escape from total control and imposed expectations.
The storm that happens inside the hermetic world under the control of the Mother will remain just a local cataclysm inside a single Finnish house.
m-ramanan - 1 October 2022 Predictability kills the flow RATED 5/10
Language: Finnish
Source: Nil
The movie story reminds me of Stephen King's "Carrie". The innocence and Horror mixed in the name of hatching.
The casting and acting was good. The writing was pretty decent and presented very well. The biggest problem of movie is the predictability. We can predict the each and every scene and it fails to scare the audience. Also I dont understand the the social media life presentation and relation to the story.
The climax switch is good and the last word from the creature is ultimate. I really appreciate the climax both other scenes leads to climax were highly predictable.
y-97378 - 5 September 2022 If you are interested, watch the trailer ten times might a better idea. I have watched the trailer when I was watching other film in the cinema. At that time I was thinking," wow this one must be great, it looks like psychological horror and cult, the vibe is intriguing I will go for watching". But after I really finished, I have to say that I haven't watched a film that made me so angry and disappointed for a long while. It was so boring. The actors were acting so bad. And they were so dumb (it made me feel like my intelligence was being insulting and degrading by them) It was the film you could literally guess what will happen next exactly. And there was not even mystery and horrible atmosphere at all. There was not even a logical stuff or action exists in this film. The things were used to scare people nothing but alert time+ jump scare. And it was so boring, it made me ask myself thousands of times why did I choose to come here. But I got to say I like the double metaphor, HATCH. And I guess this is one good point of this film. It was showing two kinds of hatching at the same moment, and they were connected to each other. So my advice is why don't you use the money to buy some Diet Coke which would make you feel happier.