A Review of "Emelie"

Emelie was a film written by Richard Raymond Harry Herbeck and directed by Michael Thelin. The movie starred Sarah Bolger as Emile, a mentally ill woman in her mid-thirties passing herself off as 17. The movie begins with the kidnapping of a teen girl. It is soon revealed that the girl was Anna. Anna was meant to be babysitting 10 year-old Jacob, and his two younger siblings, later in the night. But when Emelie takes her place, Jacob grows more and more weary of his new sitter after she makes him help her with a tampon and kills his sister's hamster. He then discovers Anna is not as she says she is. He has to use all of his strength and wits to protect his siblings until his parents return. If they ever do.

Emelie wears her creepiness like I wear jackets, tightly and to make a statement. She made me cringe multiple times throughout the film. I gotta tell you, I was pretty uneasily in the first 30 minutes of this film. I wasn't entirely sure what Emelie was trying to accomplish at first, by pretending to be a sitter. I thought she was a pedophile. But no worry, her reasons are a lot less sickening. Although the film is not is rated, there are sexual references and the violence against children. I rated it 66. I'm not comfortable with a majority of Emelie actions. At some points I wanted to stop watching the film. However, I am glad that I finished. If I hadn't my thought would've ran wild. If you are willing to stomach the things mentioned before, then the film wasn't that bad.

Trailer.