Elisabeth Moss plays Cecilia Kass, an architect who, in the first scene, stealthily and fearfully escapes from a gated and electronically guarded oceanfront compound, in Northern California, where she lives with her boyfriend, Adrian Griffin (Oliver Jackson-Cohen), a fabulously wealthy inventor who specializes in optics. The movie is launched with a backstory of abuse. In other words, obliqueness alert: I will keep my descriptions allusive in the effort to avoid spoilers. Gyges found a ring that could turn him invisible, and he used the power to become a rapist-to “commit adultery with the queen.” The teller of the tale, a character named Glaucon, claims that anyone who possessed the ring would use it “to go into houses and have intercourse with whomever he wanted.” Whannell’s version of “The Invisible Man,” likewise, is the story of a predator, and a sexual predator-even though it would be a spoiler to go into great detail about his crimes.įor that matter, Whannell’s “The Invisible Man” is a movie that begs not to be described, because more or less everything interesting in it has to do with plot, and its plot twists deliver most of its considerable pleasures. ![]() Wells’s 1897 novel “ The Invisible Man” harks back to a much earlier invisible-man tale: the Ring of Gyges, from Plato’s Republic. ![]() The writer and director Leigh Whannell’s new, loose adaptation of H.
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