5/29/2023 0 Comments A dark song rating![]() Just as Sophia is desperate to ask her favor of her angel, so was I desperate to get to the end of the film and figure out what the point ultimately is. While this is a frustrating thing to contend with while watching a film, it helps to put the audience in the headspace of Sophia a bit more. Just as Sophia and Joseph lose track of time, so do the audience. There seems to be an endless string of scenes of Sophia meditating, arguing with Joseph, eating, sleeping, etc. However, the fact that we don’t know the details of the ritual makes all the scenes blend together. Sophia’s favor changes throughout the film as her motives become more and more clear. The aim of the ritual is to call upon Sophia’s guardian angel and ask for a favor. ![]() The ritual in question has a lot of little details. However, as the ritual wears on and the isolation wears on Sophia, we become aware at how easily Joseph could lie and deceive Sophia.īoth characters are incredibly unreliable, so without any characters to connect to, it’s hard to invest any energy into hoping they make it out of the ritual in one piece. It’s clear that Sophia cannot do it alone and needs Joseph’s expertise. The ritual Sophia hires Joseph for sounds very complex and dangerous per Joseph’s description. We meet him as Sophia is hiring him, but we know as much about him as we do Sophia, which is very little. This makes it incredibly hard to like her, despite any pity we may feel for her. Slowly, as the film unfolds, we learn little bits and pieces about Sophia, but as her lies are revealed it becomes apparent that we cannot trust her. ![]() There is little exposition allowing the audience to get to know Sophia, so we only learn about her from what she reveals to Joseph. We meet her as she is buying a house and Joseph for some dangerous ritual. Sophia is incredibly unreliable as a character. The occultist, Joseph (Steve Oram), requires that he and Sophia be in complete isolation for the ritual, so they lock themselves in a secluded house until the ritual is complete. A Dark Song, currently streaming on Netflix, is a dark occultist tale of the hardships one will endure for forgiveness.ĭirected by Liam Gavin, A Dark Song follows Sophia (Catherine Walker) who seeks out an occultist to help her perform a dangerous ritual to see her son again.
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