A Unique View
Without trying to spoil anything, Chatwin’s character gets beaten badly and left for dead in a forest nearby the town that the story takes place. He isn’t dead, but also isn’t conscious. The idea of The Invisible comes into play here, as throughout most of the movie, Chatwin is in this Invisible form, whereby living, conscious folk cannot sense him, but he can see and hear them. Chatwin’s view is an interesting one; he can see his mother grieve for him after he has gone missing, something he wasn’t so sure she would do given how strict she was to him, and how cold. He sees his friend fall apart in his absence, and he watches Annie’s character go through her difficult life with a view he could have never seen before. With his death imminent, he tries to urge Annie to come clean and tell authorities where his body is so that he can be rescued. What happens in the final minutes is rather touching.
This is actually a fairly well put together teen thriller. I thought the idea was original and the plot gets to the point quickly, and ends before it overstays its welcome.
Sights And Sounds
The Invisible is a sharp looking film on Blu-ray. It has a look about it that seems to really fit the mood of the film, which is a fairly rare quality. Part of that is due to good directing, and part of that is the transfer to Blu-ray. The film has a dark, eerie, but still realistic mood to it; there are no monsters, for example. The visual quality exemplifies this mood by making the many darker interior, and exterior, scenes crisp and vibrant. As you might expect this isn’t the type of movie that will blow your speakers away; instead it’s fairly quiet, but it does well for itself.
Extras
The Invisible features a few extras, but nothing to write home about. There are two audio commentaries, one featuring the director and one screenwriter, and then the other features the other screenwriter; neither was very interesting. There are thirteen deleted scenes, with optional commentary, presented in SD; again, these provide small insights that aren’t really all that intriguing (they were deleted scenes after all). Lastly there are a couple of forgettable music videos and a pair of trailers for other movies.