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Absolutely. Not everyone even likes it, but went to see it tonight and wow! Mind slightly blown. I loved how juxtaposing A-list celeb Johansson into a super real, objective, almost deadpan Glasgow made reality seem so alien.
I love how it embraces Freud's concept of the uncanny and the German unheimlich. It just flips so many conventions on their head: threatening people in white vans are meant to be creepy, unattractive men, attackers are meant to use violence as their weapon, not their sexual charms.
I think it will age really well. It's so clearly contemporary - complete with reference to the upcoming referendum and 2014 on the radio - that I think the street scenes will improve with age if anything. I can imagine people watching it in 20 years time and remembering when Scotland used to be part of the UK and being amazed that smoking on the street was once allowed...
The soundtrack is brilliant: a proper old school horror soundtrack, and the cinematography's great. I thought the recurring motif of people disappearing into darkness/light worked brilliantly.
Not completely sure about the end, but I'm not sure what else I would have expected...
@TW2 - the book is meant to be very different. Glazer spent 9 years refining the script and several versions. Apparently in the end he decided to just write the script he wanted to write and it bears little relation to the book.