Next Door (Naboer) (2005)
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Director : Pål Sletaune (Dragonfly, You Really Got Me, Junk Mail) |
Awards:
Winner, Best Actor, Amanda Awards Norway, 2005
Synopsis :
Anne dan Kim, dua perempuan cantik ini adalah tetangga baru John yang tampaknya sudah sangat mengenal John dan mantan pacarnya Ingrid. Keakraban yang tidak biasa dan sifat keduanya yang manipulatif membuat John merasa tidak nyaman namun ia mengalah untuk menjaga Kim saat Anne harus pergi. Konon katanya Kim pernah diserang sehingga ia takut untuk menjadi sendiri. Namun John menemukan bahwa ia tidak bisa mempercayai keduanya, terutama disaat dirinya sendiri lengah menerima rayuan Kim dan Anne. John mulai kehilangan dirinya sendiri dan terjerumus dalam keinginan dan pikiran serta keadaan yang membahayakan.
One day John (30) meets his next-door neighbours Anne and Kim, two beautiful women, who invite him into their flat. The flat is full of canned goods and jugs of water, as if they are expecting some sort of a siege. John is surprised that he has never met them before, while both women seem to know John and his ex-girlfriend Ingrid intimately. The women’s sexual and manipulative behaviour makes John uncomfortable and he leaves in anger, but Anne manages to convince him to come back and keep an eye on Kim while she goes shopping. She tells John that the man who lived in John’s flat before had assaulted Kim and kept her prisoner in his flat for two days. Since then Kim has not dared leave the building. When John returns to the women’s flat, Kim denies everything Anne has said, and claims that it was Anne who had been assaulted. Kim tries to seduce John. She sets up traps for him and lures him deeper and deeper into their gigantic flat. From there on John begins to lose more and more control over his life. He crosses boundaries he never thought himself capable of. Next Door is a thriller about losing control over your desires, your will and your mind.