Shift (2006) - Video On Demand

Shift - Movie Review

A fantasy about how a man’s own apartment becomes a threatening place after a mosquito goes inside his ear and transforms his senses.  Shift is a miniature catastrophe movie: it’s “Godzilla”, it’s “Tornado”, and all without leaving one’s kitchen. The protagonist's life revolves around fighting the mosquitoes that rule his world, his small apartment, from which he never goes out, from morning til night.

Damn mosquitoes, not again! And where’s that post? Bang! Got one! But another escapes and torpedoes into his ear. Soon, things aren’t quite the same. Sounds are deafening and, what’s happening to the newspaper? The kitchen seems fit for a dinosaur. Maybe it’s just a nasty migraine. There are tablets just up there, just… under a full bag of rice. A gentle, quick tag –ahhhhh! Out of a pile of rice comes a mosquito. He sounds just like the disappeared man. The letterbox opens. There’s the parcel! Now he’s going to show them! It’s huge as well, it’s… falling towards him –agh! He agonises under it: the latest mosquito killer.

His day starts with another bite in an already crowded face. At his front door, his blood shot eyes peer through the letterbox searching. As he gives up and walks the heavenly squeak of the letterbox breaks the silence. He throws himself to it, only to discover it's some free magazine. Now he's ready to kill. One mosquito succumbs to the force of the magazine, but his lover saves herself and takes revenge by flying into his ear.

After a fierce shaking he thinks he has got the insect out and falls asleep exhausted. When he wakes up, nothing is quite the same. Sounds gradually appear huge, painful and the objects around him seem distanced, estranged. Shortly, he's crawling on his floor unable to cope with his surroundings.

As he reaches for headache tablets a bag of rice slips out of the cupboard and on top of him.

All that's left is a pile of rice on the ground. Out of the rice struggles a mosquito, groaning like the disappeared man. He flies around confused when the letterbox squeaks open and he flies of. The parcel! As he approaches it, it gets larger. He tries to break his flight, but it's too late and he dies crashed under his long awaited parcel: the ultimate tropical strength mosquito killer.

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