Sound of My Voice (Zal Batmanglij) [20 points / 2 votes]
"To call Sound of My Voice a science fiction movie would do a disservice to its intense personal drama, and to call it a character-driven drama would do a disservice to its fascinating sci-fi mysteries. With an infinitesimal budget compared to studio sci-fi movies, Sound of My Voice crafts a more engrossing and unsettling vision of the future than any other film of 2012. It does so primarily through the masterful performance of co-writer/co-producer Brit Marling as Maggie, who claims to come from the year 2054 and has amassed an alarmingly dedicated group of followers. Solely through the way she describes Maggie’s harrowing native era, Marling conjures up images of humanity’s end and is completely believable as a charismatic leader who could garner a fervent following.
Marling’s haunting intensity is offset by Christopher Denham and Nicole Vicius as Peter and Lorna, the documentarians who try to infiltrate Maggie’s cult, and Marling and director/co-writer Zal Batmanglij expertly balance the couple’s skepticism with the enticing and terrifying possibility that Maggie is telling the truth. The scene in which Maggie talks Peter through an absurd-seeming vomit ritual in order to prove his loyalty is one of the most indelible movie moments of 2012. It’s both hypnotic and disturbing, just like the rest of the movie, which sticks to its eerie ambiguity all the way to the end." - Josh Bell
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