After a lot of strange things happen to Ming, Nim is initially convinced Bayan wishes Ming to succeed Nim, but it turns out not to be what the characters and even me expected. Then later the film will focus on Nim's niece, Ming. Bayan is an ancestral God and has been possessing women in Nim's family for generations. The film itself tells about a group of Thai documentary team traveling to the northeast part of Thailand, Isan to document the daily life of a local medium, Nim, who is possessed by the spirit of Bayan. With that experience, the film feels relatable and it's easier for me to follow the plot, moreover, I often hear this type of story when hanging out with friends and will never get bored. I myself belong to the group who have only seen people affected by this shaman's witchcraft, the victims are from my own family but thankfully my brother has recovered. As a person who was born in Southeast Asia, it's no stranger to shamanism, regardless of whether you have used his services or not, but at least you must have heard stories or seen people who are victims of shamanic practices. Without a doubt, The Medium is absolutely one of the most creepiest film I watched last year. But if you are interested in the show be ware of the first half. So would I recommend anyone to watch this? No. #The medium full movie movieOverall, this movie could benefit from some serious editing and compression into a standard one/one-half hour movie. The pace is beyond sluggish with a smattering of interesting incidences. The scares are relatively low and the movie is more into the depiction of gory or revolting behaviour. There was zero audience engagement with respect to this theme. So I am confused whether this was actually supposed to be found footage horror in which case this is nowhere near 'Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum' standards. I felt their presence was superfluous because if the intent was to gain a third-party perspective, there should have been more interactions between the camera crew and the audience/viewers since, the movie is what they 'filmed'. When the story started picking up about monitoring the possessed person the camera crew started communicating with the possessed's family regarding the footage and the last half hour they were as active as the rest of the cast. The camera crew did not communicate much in terms of the story progression in the first one and half hour. #The medium full movie tvNow, speaking of the biography/reality tv portion of this movie it was majorly passive. While 'The Medium' suffered from a sluggish plot line and inconsistent pacing, it was the farcical ending which was the final nail in it's coffin. What fails this movie is also it's train wreck of an ending which begins half hour before the ending credits and just like the sluggish pace of it's intro, is slow but devolves into a complete parody. There are some scare-inducing moments, but when a movie is over 2 hours the moments feel extremely minuscule. It's more of a supernatural intent and horrific fascination with which we watch the behaviour of a possessed person. While the story of possession becomes proven and the nieces antics become crazier there very little horror. Unfortunately things don't get any better after one hour. As one of the reviewers previously mentioned, the first half could have been compressed into 12-15 minutes. This would be acceptable if 'The Medium' was a thriller but it isn't and it is also not capable of keeping the audience engaged cause it's first half is extremely boring. The creep factor of this movie is extremely slow. We are one hour 10 minutes into the movie and I am yet to be scared. Even I can introduce my family in lesser time and I have 21 first cousins.Īnyway after the sluggish introductions we delve deeper into the character of the medium's niece who I must say portrayed her character pretty well. This portion of the movie narrative takes almost 45 mins. As we follow her life, we are introduced to a her family members and the complicated family dynamics. The premise of the movie is interesting, we have a camera crew that is following a 'medium/psychic' who is purported to be possessed by one of the local Gods. Let us first tackle the 'horror' portion of the movie and all it's entailed expectations. I say try because I think it failed in generating sufficient interest or traction in either of it's intended genres. Similar to the American film 'The exorcism of Emily Rose' which combines the horror genre with courtroom drama, 'The Medium' tries to combine the horror genre with biography/reality tv. Slower than cold molasses in winter time.
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