If you could switch bodies with someone for a day, would you? The new Netflix psychological thriller “It’s What’s Inside” explores that idea.
The movie follows a group of college friends reuniting the night before one of them is set to get married.
At this party one of these friends brings an invention of his that can switch people’s bodies and suggests they play a game where everyone try to guess who is in which body.
When the night takes a turn for the worse and two people end up dead while in the wrong bodies chaos ensues as the group tries to figure out what to do.
While the way the movie is shot and edited is beautiful, the plot itself felt rushed and not satisfying to watch.
With only an hour and forty minute run time there isn’t much room for filler or fluff scenes which the first half had many. Tackling themes of mental health, the self and inhibitions in that short of time made things feel rushed.
So, when the climax of the movie came it didn’t feel like it earned it, and the hard cut to the future left it with a very unsatisfying ending to what is an incredibly interesting topic.
Despite that though the acting was incredible. As each actor had to play multiple roles, their main character, and whoever is in their body pretending to be them. Each actor did very well at creating these differences in each character.
This is one of the few movies that could have benefited from the tv show format, with a longer total run time but separated into episodes the amount of lore and exposition that was used that made the movie feel rushed would have more time to be explored rather than ignored.
If you like something that will make you think and has beautiful style with just a bit of the existential horror that comes from being trapped in a body that isn’t your own then it is a wonderful movie.
Though if you’re looking for something to watch once and understand then this movie definitely isn’t for you.