聽呀……聽見了就會死去呀……
1972年的偏遠村莊,一名少女夜裡聽見疑似「聽呀」的怪聲後,短短幾天內便離奇身亡......。少女慘死的消息很快在小村莊傳開,得知消息的大哥Yak(納得克庫吉米亞 飾)決定從軍營返家照顧全家人。某日,小妹Yam(拉塔娃蒂婉通 飾)放學時遇到一名樣貌詭異的黑衣女子後,乖巧的她突然性情大變,有時異常暴力,有時無故瘋狂尖叫,午夜夢迴時,甚至會中邪般重複唸著令人毛骨悚然的「聽呀…聽呀…」,詭譎「陰聲」逐漸蔓延到這個家中…….
聽呀……聽見了就會死去呀……
1972年的偏遠村莊,一名少女夜裡聽見疑似「聽呀」的怪聲後,短短幾天內便離奇身亡......。少女慘死的消息很快在小村莊傳開,得知消息的大哥Yak(納得克庫吉米亞 飾)決定從軍營返家照顧全家人。某日,小妹Yam(拉塔娃蒂婉通 飾)放學時遇到一名樣貌詭異的黑衣女子後,乖巧的她突然性情大變,有時異常暴力,有時無故瘋狂尖叫,午夜夢迴時,甚至會中邪般重複唸著令人毛骨悚然的「聽呀…聽呀…」,詭譎「陰聲」逐漸蔓延到這個家中…….
Like Fritz Lang, David Fincher or Bong Joon Ho before him, talented debut filmmaker Lado Kvataniya uses the concept of police detective vs serial killer for an excitingly stylised, macabre and haunting narrative, that ultimately revolves around the identity of an era: in this case, the late 1980s Soviet Union. With Glasnost and the end of communist rule, the West also learned of the (unsurprising) fact that there were serial killers in Russia too – the most notorious case probably that of Andrei Chikatilo, nicknamed the Rostov Ripper, or the Russian Hannibal Lecter.
Based on these and many other sources, Kvataniya and screenwriter Olga Gorodetskaya constructed an immersive psychological puzzle, jumping back and forth in time, to reveal ever new-possible motives for the actions of all the protagonists. It all starts in 1990, when Detective Issa Davydov is celebrating his promotion and receives a call, reporting a crime that looks precisely like the ones of the serial killer that he famously captured some years before ...