Day Night Day Night - Terror is a Woman
June 9th, 2007 in Indie, Movies, Reviews
Making its way on the art and indie circuit is Julia Loctev’s film Day Night Day Night. This is arguably one of the more frightening films of the summer because the film could easily take place. A young woman, with no given name, and of uncertain ethnicity, has travelled by bus to a location in New Jersey. After a while it becomes clear that the woman is to be a suicide bomber, and that her ultimate destination is Times Square in New York City.
The young woman with the mission is portrayed by Luisa Williams, a thin young woman with an equally thin voice. That Williams looks like the type of person most people would not look twice at seems to be the point of the film, to remind up that more often than not, terrorists do not announce themselves, and are usually inconspicous in appearance. The theme of the film though is not terror or politics, as much as it is a study about the extremes some people will take in order to have a sense of belonging, whether the group is one with shared ideals or interests, or is a “family” created by like-minded individuals.
The suspense becomes unbearable at times. The young woman walks through crowded 42nd Street with what she has been told is fifty pounds of explosives which she is to ignite with a special switch. One does not know where, when or even if the mission will be completed. Even the young woman is on edge as another woman runs into her in the streets, and a balloon pops in a restaurant. This is a film to seek out in a theater even though it suggests real life horrors. Day Night Day Night should remind some viewers that the scariest people aren’t always those of the imagination, but perhaps the quiet person next door.
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