Sorry for the delay couldn't be helped so on to Bug. The film stars Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon, and Harry Connick Jr. and was released in 2006.
At first glimpse it may sound like another conspiracy theory movie but in all honesty it does tends to make you think is it a conspiracy or is the two lead characters are just straight up crazy. I mean you have Ashley's character Agnes who is a drug addict also has mysteriously lost her son and Michael's character Peter a discharged solider who turns out to be mentally ill. After Agnes and Peter made a one night stand everything went really bat-crap when Peter starts "seeing" a few bugs on him who starts to bother him and creeps out Agnes. As the audience you're thinking that it's probably nothing since the film never shows these bugs so you're not sure if there are any bug and that Peter's pretty weird. Later on you see Peter scratching himself then starts placing fly trappers all over the small motel room. At this point Peter explains to Agnes that he was part of biological experiment by the military. Agnes's reaction to this is about the same as the audience you're a bit skeptical to believe him or that he's absolutely crazy. These "delusions" continue to disturb Agnes until she is convinced that she too is part of the experiment involving the "bugs" and that her son's disappearance may be a part of it. The film ends with Peter and Agnes in the same motel room now covered with tin foil and bug zappers, believing that the government may come after them so they dowse themselves in gasoline and burned themselves alive.
Further thoughts on Bug: This film really gets in your head when watching, it makes you wonder is it a conspiracy or is this guy really out of his mind and Agnes is hopelessly drawn in. Usually in conspiracy theory movies they give hints that it's a conspiracy and the main characters have to figure out what it is. But in Bug it doesn't give you any hints the film leaves you to figure out what's going on. Well it gives you a few hints but doesn't spoil the movie. This direction does work if done right and honestly Bug does it right without being confusing. More or less this film breaks you to have two opposing thoughts. The first thought leads to believe that there's a conspiracy despite the film doesn't tell you it's a conspiracy not once does it show who's behind it nor it doesn't show the "bugs". While the second thought leads you to the obvious the Peter character is crazy he's mentally ill and that you really don't believe him despite his determination to prove that there's a conspiracy and the tiny bit of hints that there's a conspiracy. And there's the Agnes character who her life so deeply messed up that she finally breaks into his belief so convincingly that she believes she's a part of it. So you are really concern and scared for these characters as they trap in a convincing barrier between reality and delusion.
My verdict don't pass this film as another conspiracy theory movie I deeply recommend it hands down to watch this film. Tune in next time as I review...sigh Jennifer's Body, ugh.
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