Sawyer Valentini is a troubled woman who moves away from home to
escape a stalker. Sawyer finds she is still triggered by interactions with men
as a result of her experiences. She makes an appointment with a counselor at
Highland Creek Behavioral Center. At her appointment, she unknowingly signs a
release voluntarily committing herself to a 24-hour stay. She calls the police
but they do nothing when they see the signed release. After physical
altercations with a patient and a staff member, Dr. Hawthorne says she is being
kept for seven more days. Another patient, Nate Hoffman, gives Sawyer an
introduction to the place. Highland Creek is running a scheme to milk health
insurance claims for profit. They trick people into voluntarily committing
themselves as long as the patients' insurance companies continue to pay; when
insurance claims run out, the patient is "cured". One day, Sawyer
sees David Strine, her stalker, working as an orderly under the assumed name
George Shaw. She has an ... (Courtesy of Internet Movie Database)
I had been waiting to see UNSANE since the moment I heard
Steven Soderbergh was set to direct and that the film was shot entirely on an
iPhone. I didn’t quite know how the impact of being shot with an iPhone would affect
the entire project or the look of the film, but even outside of that fact the
story premise seemed intriguing. As I started to watch I could see how the
shots were developed to use the best elements an iPhone with an adapted lens
could create. As for the story I could see how one could easily get lost in the
system for a mental health lapse, which made the film more than just an exercise
in alternative filming methods. In the end I gave UNSANE 3.25 stars of 5.
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