Medusa

2021 [PORTUGUESE]

Fantasy / Horror / Thriller

3
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 40% · 56 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 40%
IMDb Rating 5.8/10 10 970 970

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Plot summary

By day, Mari and her friends broadcast their spiritual devotion through pastel pinks and catchy evangelical songs about purity and perfection, and by night they form a vigilante girl gang, prowling the streets in search of sinners who have deviated from the rightful path. After an attack goes wrong, leaving Mari scarred and unemployed, her views of community, religion, and her peers begin to shift.

Director

Anita Rocha da Silveira Photo
Anita Rocha da Silveira

Top cast

Carol Romano Photo
Carol Romano as Vivian
Joana Medeiros Photo
Joana Medeiros as Karen
Dora Freind Photo
Dora Freind as Leticia
Mariana Oliveira Photo
Mariana Oliveira as Mariana
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
1.15 GB
1280*536
Portuguese 2.0
NR
Subtitles us   es  
23.976 fps
2 hr 8 min
Seeds 2
2.37 GB
1920*804
Portuguese 5.1
NR
Subtitles us   es  
23.976 fps
2 hr 8 min
Seeds 6

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by jordan2240 1 / 10

El Stupido!

This is the kind of film that will appeal to the person who looks at 'black line on white canvas' at a modern art museum and thinks there's more to it than a black line on a white canvas. I should have known when I saw that this film was well-rated by critics that it would be a total loser, but I took a chance anyway. This was in the 'horror/thriller' category on the kanopy streaming service, and since I was in the mood for a horror, I thought I'd give it a shot. It was one of the more painful shots I've had in a while. Some of the scenes made no sense whatsoever, and you didn't know if they were real or dreamt, though they came across as real - real stupid. The whole premise doesn't make much sense, but far be it from me to spoil it for any poor sap who looks at the good reviews and wants to give it a watch. Perhaps if you're Brazilian it will make more sense to you, but for this senior American male, it was a complete dud. I don't often rate a movie a '1', but I honestly think that's what this deserves. You've been warned.
Reviewed by JvH48 3 / 10

Watched it while wondering all the time where the story was heading. I missed a story line and saw no clear purpose. Surprised in retrospect that I made it until the end

Saw this at the Rotterdam filmfestival (IFFR) 2022, not in a venue but online. I booked this movie after reading controversial and contradicting reviews. I'm not sure it's the best attitude for watching, but I did anyway. In retrospect, I'm surprised I made it until the end.I'm a bit bothered by the all-female squad hunting women "deviating from the right path", without having any clue (at least, I did not see any) how to identify such deviators. Was it sufficient for a woman to walk alone at night, thereby assuming no proper woman has any business alone at that hour. If that was the case, the black&white division of good and bad is dangerous in the hands of uncontrolled gangs, be it men or women for that matter, usually not asking questions but merely assume, judge and strike.The story as it enrolls does not show a natural flow and misses logical developments carrying us from A to B, then to C, and so on. We constantly see two alternating lives, one among co-believers and one other in a professional setting. The latter story starts in a hospital for plastic surgery, but our main protagonist (MP) moves to a hospital nursing comateuse people later. After she was wounded in her face yielding a very visible scar, she was dismissed by the plastic surgery hospital for fear of upsetting patients there. Her job move was deliberate: comateuse patients do not care how a nurse looks.Due to the genre labels by IMDB, I could not help myself thinking of night shifts, being nearly alone among all those dormant coma-patients. Added to that, mostly in the company of one colleague (male) nurse, with nothing much to do to pass the time. The filmmakers probably intended to generate all kinds of thoughts with us viewers (and maybe with our MP too, as we get one sex scene, of which I'm not sure it was imagined or real).The counseling session with the minister/vicar does not help much to keep me and our MP on the right track. However, that may be my non-pure view only, when the vicar lays hands on her but was interrupted in the middle when his presence was needed elsewhere. Maybe, my devious thoughts were not intended by the filmmakers (for me, it looked like a typical #MeToo case in progress).And what about the surprising ending some reviewers wrote about?? What did I miss?? Or is this just a consequence of the missing narrative, leading us from one scene to another unrelated scene, and eventually to nowhere?? The alternating scenes (the street gangs, hospital, pseudo-religuous sessions, and so on) made me persist until the end, persistently longing for something relevant or interesting to happen. But I waited in vain. That I saw the ending was a miracle in itself, if I may be so bold in retrospect, usually having it switched off earlier.All in all, I have not enough substance to write a conclusion. I scored a 2 out of 5 for the audience award, for the sole reason that the movie I saw before this one, was worse and did not deserve more than 1 out of 5.
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