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Today's film was

Disturbia (2007)

I got it because it has Shia LaBeouf. I really like watching him and his expanding career.

This is his thriller film.

It is a play on Rear Window but in a sort of suburban, high school, hi tech sense.

I had some expectations from reading reviews (which I do in a blurry eyed scanning kind of way so I don't pick up spoilers). And they were not met really. A good thing. A lot of surprises.

It starts with a bang and has some stuff that is pretty moving in the beginning.

LaBeouf is pretty good at conveying the mood of things.

It also has a Japanese-American sidekick. Never saw that before.

The girlfriend is kind of a dip.

The villain, David Morse, is awesome. He is scary in an elemental way. A quiet time bomb.

Some of it is improbable and a little hard to figure out but it doesn't let you dwell on that so much.

It moves.

Also, it is a genré film so we fill in the spaces from our experience.

I liked most of it and actually screamed in the scary parts of which there are many.

I will give it a 3 out of Netflix5.

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