Building a thriller from a couple's separation can actually be the best scenario to peek into a plot of maximum tension. From that critical moment in which we could consider what we did wrong, or how far we are from that other person with whom we share a large part of life, Katie's imagination is projected to weave a surprising plot.
Katie kitamura he knew how to face the idea of his psychological thriller from that perspective of suspense itself that always entails starting over or simply trying to shed the burden of what we were in that half-life existence that is always living together.
There are many reasons that can lead to a separation, and Katie probes them all to address the notion of an ambiguous, strange separation. A separation in which her mother-in-law acquires a starring role by offering her daughter-in-law the Machiavellian plan to go find him in Greece, where he told her that he was traveling with his wife.
The bewilderment is intoxicated with light in the Greek islands, with a heat that seems to overheat the hypnotic ideas of a woman who does not know whether or not she wants to find Christopher, her husband. In a plot that is as alienating as its protagonist seems alienated by his own emotions and desires, we pass through a bewildering scene of mystery combined with feelings of infidelity and betrayal, of a lie spread like a stain on her life, shaken by the idea of that if all of the above never made sense, it would not make sense now to meet him again.
But what happened to Christopher? She really has disappeared, can it have something to do with a twisted mother-in-law that has led her to that secluded place in the world? With fuzzy clues and haunting feelings of fear between the psychological and the existential halfway between Shari lapena y Gilliam flynn but with a novel plot, we move towards one of those discoveries that are sensed special, in keeping with a novel built with an electric tempo from the simple, and in this case fascinating idea, of a couple's separation.
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