Steven Soderbergh's Unsane feels very of-the-moment, in more ways than one.
First is the plot, which centers around the apparent gaslighting of a stalking victim (The Crown's Claire Foy). From here, it's easy to make the connection between her predicament and those of all the harassment and assault victims who've spoken out in recent months, only to be told they were in the wrong.
Unsane's other very 2018 quality is less immediately obvious: The feature film was shot entirely on an iPhone. You wouldn't know it by looking at the trailer, which just goes to show how good iPhone cameras have gotten in recent years.
Soderbergh's hardly the first filmmaker to settle on the iPhone as his weapon of choice. Sean Baker famously shot 2015's Tangerine on an iPhone, and a handful of other shorts and features have been made the same way.
Still, it's rare enough that it seems worth a mention. As for how that technology compares to the much bigger, fancier, more expensive cameras that usually shoot films like this – well, you can decide for yourself when Unsane opens March 23.
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