Director Scott Derrickson presented his new film "The George" (The Gorge), which represents a hybrid of horror and romance. The main roles were played by American actors Miles Teller (37 years), Anya Taylor-Joy (28 years), and star Sigourney Weaver (75 years). The two main heroes are elite snipers, hired for a year to live in secluded safe houses on opposite sides of a troubled world.
"Music is an emotional part of the film, rather than an intellectual action, propped up by special effects, or an explosive third stage of the film's events," stated the American director. He noted that musicians Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are extremely reserved in their profession, which is necessary for them to be so. Initially, Derrickson fell in love and recently got married just before receiving the film's screenplay, hence romantic themes were close to him.
The film evokes the same feelings in the audience as it does in the heroes when the two snipers start to communicate with each other through handwritten messages that they can only see through a magnifying glass. All this takes place in an unknown remote location, which seriously attracts attention when a new dynamic begins and their love emerges.
According to the film's poster, "The most sacred secret in the world is between them," which corresponds to both the plot and the atmosphere of uncertainty, induced isolation, and shared survival. The director notes that the screenwriter Zak Din wrote it during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, thereby, the film represents a real person, who faces one-on-one and struggles to be together.
Derrickson believes that the film represents an unusual approach to the history of love, especially considering that it was released on Valentine's Day, February 14. The director points out: "I think this is what attracts attention to the film's screenplay, and in the end, this is what made me shoot the film. The film is about two lonely and isolated people who find each other and struggle for a solution to be together. This is the present feeling of essential loneliness, when, like on the screen, a totalizing anxiety arises."
