It is a little difficult to imagine how scary a magnificent building with a different architectural structure intertwined with nature, where the concept of time works differently and there are houses within houses, because the house looks really great with its location and the way it is built.
Quirks aside, the setting (in the middle of nature) and the silence it offers are both very attractive and a dream for many people. I am one of the many, I would like to build a similar structure in the garden I have in the future (in retirement) and become a hermit.
If we talk about the oddities, it is not so much the beauty but the fear that can kill a healthy person. Wider walls on the inside and narrower walls on the outside, walls with different angles and doors that appear and disappear are some of the few links in the chain of oddities. The fact that the concept of time works differently in each room is the feature I find the strangest.
I'm talking about the 2020 American movie, originally titled You Should Have Left. Or rather, I'm not talking about the movie yet, but the house in the movie. Lol
I can summarize the whole story of the film as dark secrets, reckoning with the past, jealousy crises and a mysterious house where all these are settled. The vacation to fix the bad situation and the mysterious house in the middle of nature become the main actors of an ending and a new beginning.
When I think of leaving a note to oneself, I can handle the concepts of past and future with straight logic and put them on the right ground. I think of it as going to the past and leaving a note to oneself in the future or going to the future and leaving a note to oneself in the past, but not this time! If I believed that, I would have watched the movie once more.
Kevin Bacon as Theo, who carries the secrets of the past, who is sinful, extremely jealous and in need of a reckoning, was magnificent in terms of acting. His performance in showing and accepting that every choice is a renunciation is worth watching. Not to mention his success in camouflaging his real personality, you can watch the movie even for Kevin Bacon.
Amanda Seyfried, who plays Susanna, Theo's life partner and is seen as a true professional in acting, played the role she was supposed to play throughout the movie. Carrying two cell phones was an important detail to differentiate the dual personalities. The first phone played the role of a wife who is faithful to her husband, while the other phone played the role of an unfaithful wife who cheats on her husband.
I recommend you to watch the movie in the genre of mystery and horror. It is worth spending 90 minutes for Theo, who turns the reckoning that started with himself as a result of his long years of soul-searching into a drama that spreads to his family and turns into a drama with the choice he has to make at the end! I wish a good time to those who will watch it.