Spoiler-Free The Invite Review

I'll do it.

Take one.

Cam, it's yours.

I'll do it.

I'll go first.

Yeah, so I think where I will start, there's lots of places I can go, but I think where I will start is blocking.

I really like the blocking in this movie.

And here's my main takeaway.

A lot of times when I say a movie feels like a play, it's a knock.

This is one of the first times I can remember a movie feeling like a play in all the right ways.

So we've got a chamber piece on our hands, which essentially means we're in one location for the majority or the entirety of the film.

I will let you see for yourself which of those is true.

But when that happens, there are a lot of things that can go wrong.

There are more things that can go wrong than can go right.

And it comes down to a lot of different technical aspects of filmmaking.

But if you play your cards right, something can feel like a play or a little one act or something like that in all the right ways.

And I feel like that's what we had going on here.

It just had that kind of energy.

It had the balance and it really had to do with how they were using the spaces, both in terms of where characters were placed in scenes and in shots how they moved about the space and also where furniture was placed because furniture and and decorations and everything is a huge part of this movie and it had to be perfect for this to work and it has to be perfect in a movie like this in order for you to not feel the bored or claustrophobic or like you want the movie to be over none of those things are true here because they just had a really thoughtful approach to how they do it so I give Olivia Wilde a lot of credit that's One of the hardest things about directing, in my opinion, is blocking scenes and making things feel dynamic, particularly in a movie like this, and she nailed it.

I love that you said it was like a play.

I'll be really brief, Stefano, because on the drive over here, I was literally talking to myself, thinking about what I would say, and I was like, it was really like a play.

It really felt that genuine.

You could see this on a stage.

What you got, Stefano?

No, yeah, I think and I guess I don't want to go too into it because it might be a take as well.