Truth Or Dare - Review [sub ita]

Hi guys it's Debbie and today I would like to speak about "Truth or Dare" a new horror film which was released a couple of weeks ago. "Truth or Dare" follows a group of friends which somehow ends up caght in a supernatural version of the truth or dare game. They either have to perform a dangerous actions such as hurting somebody, or confess to something very big, ruining friendships, relationships as the game gets more and more intense and threatening. Now in my opinion the big problem with truth or dare is that it is very teen-oriented. There is nothing wrong with this in itself, there's nothing wrong with a film trying to appeal to a specific age group, but it is advertised as this intense horror film and then rather than being an actual horror movie, it just feels like this unrealistic story of unrealistically good-looking friends, always with perfectly made-up faces and hair, on point looks, sculpted bodies, with all their gossipy crisscross ties of friendship and love, with their all well-established roles (the clever but good-looking leader, the annoying party boy, the I'm too good-looking and successful for this dude, the troubled best friend) which just happened to be caught in a frightening situation. If you take for example "It Follows", which is one of my favourite horror films, it all revolves around a group of young friends so there are a lot of social interaction problems, love ties and everything, but these issues never get in the way of the plot or they aid it. For example in "It Follows" sex is a very important element for the storyline and it is implemented in a very strategic way, while in "Truth or Dare" it seemed like the story just couldn't wait to include it in the plot, just to get the audience excited, to shock younger audiences. I like the idea behind "Truth or Dare", I like this idea of constant danger, there were some scenes in which I kind of had to look away. But in the end it was never really scary because I felt like I was watching the same well-established roles, the same interactions we have been seeing for years in films which are aimed to younger audiences. For example when the characters pick truth, the truths are always what we would expect from an overdramatic characterisation: cheating, unlikely truths which emerge years later jeopardising the main characters BFF status, and other huge things which would never realistically happen. Now I've never seen "Happy Death Day" but it is produced by the creators of "Truth or Dare" and when I saw the trailer I couldn't help but not think the same thing: the same Disney doll, teenage/young adult actresses which end up caught in a horror situation. If you saw the film please let me know if it's like this. In general in these films all the actors seemed to be from that Nickelodeon/Disney afternoon team comedy-drama background. Lucy Hale from "Ned's School Survival Guide", "Wizards of Waverly Place", Tyler Posey from "Teen Wolf". There is nothing wrong with their career, there's nothing wrong with them in themselves, that's not the point. The point is that they are already super recognisable, super predictable, super good-looking faces which are then ultra glamorised in the film, ultra stereotyped making it hard to feel like a real horror movie. How can I believe that Olivia is in distress because her friends are dying, when for days on end she turns up with her lipgloss on point, hair perfectly styled, high heels and cute outfits to life or death scenes, just like all the other characters which by the way seem more concerned about all their gossipy ties of friendship and love, rather than the fact that they are risking their lives. As I was saying before it's not the actors in themselves, there are many actors and actresses who represent this typical standard role, who starred in countless teen products but who now perform in a variety of different roles. But with "Truth or Dare" it just feels there was never there urge of switching these actors from the older role and just leave them in their teens teen idol status. I want to see characters like the ones in "Don't Breathe", blood and snot smeared all over their face, fighting for their lives, stifling their tears, I want to see women like Brie Larson in "Room". With horrors such as "It", "Silence of the Lambs", "A Quiet Place" (which by the way was released just a few days ago), "Insidious", we feel dragged in the story, we feel engaged because we don't know what's going to happen, we don't know what to expect, even with world-famous actors, we are living the horror reality, we have relatable figures not dolled up Instagram faces. In "Truth or Dare" we knew that some characters would somehow make it through the whole situation, the main concern seemed to be whether this character we fall in love with this other character, if those two characters would still be friends... This is why I'm really looking forward to new horror films such as "Hereditary", which really looks like the the old-school horror genre. "Truth or Dare" also had many scenes which were poorly written, there was one in particular (without spoiling the plot) in which cute Olivia is at the police station and she unconvincingly asks the officer to have some water and while he has his back turned to her, she sneakily takes these photos. If we could have added the fake audience background laughter, this scene would have looked like something out of a "Sam and Cat" episode. So all in all I did not enjoy "Truth or Dare" and I don't think I would recommend it, I watched it because it looked very interesting but every time it looked like there was something new, it looked like there was about to be a twist, something unexpected, the plot would always fall back into the the predictable scenes. The one thing I will praise of "Truth or Dare" is the creepy smiley face element that appears every time somebody is caught in the game. The corners of the mouths are pulled all the way up, the eyes are gleaming, the voice is slightly distorted. I know the smiley face concept is not new but it was really good, it really creeped me out. Let me know if you saw "Truth or Dare" with a comment down below and let me know what you thought about it. I hope you enjoyed this video, if you did make sure to subscribe and I'll see you soon, bye!