The infantile imagination is a very good playground for those who want to tell a story of horror.Come Play is one of the DVD outings, which deserve to be dwelling for a few moments.

Techno to child aid

Oliver is not a child like the others.His disorder is not clearly identified or indicated during the film.The spectator must be content to know that he is not talking about.Not because he can't physically.Simply, the words do not come out.Apart from that, he's a smart boy.On his phone, he uses an application that uses symbols to form sentences and say them aloud.

It is at school that he encounters difficulties.Accompanied by a school assistant, he has the right to keep his mobile phone in class, to communicate.Which triggers the jealousy of other children.The teacher evacuates the problem by saying that Olivier does not play Fortnite during the lessons, which means that he can keep his phone in class.

The teacher's response is disconcerting, but is understood in the course of history.He could simply have said that Oliver's phone did not have the same purpose for him as for his comrades.It is not a question of having a distraction in the class, but an aid to the participation.

There are no longer reports and press articles that conspire the use of new technologies by children, including the sacrosanct "screen time" of the cherubs.They are often enamelled with "wise advice" such as "my time, we played for hours with a pebble".If it is true that sticking a tablet in the hands of a six-month-old toddler is perhaps not the best idea there is, in the case of children who present certain disorders, this may have an interest.

A tablet for Oliver

Apart from his smartphone, Oliver has a tablet offered by his father.He works in a sort of toll and finds in a cardboard, an almost new tablet.The family not driving on gold, everyone is delighted with this discovery.Oliver plays with and above all, uses it to tirelessly listen to his favorite history.

As the reader suspects, the tablet contains an application, which is not really native or available on the Apple Store or Google Play.On this point, we are on a very classic theme in horror films, namely bewitched or enchanted objects or possessed by a spirit.In terms of technologies, it is true that there is more than there is a piracy component of the device, but this is too rational, too scientific.Initially enthusiastic, Oliver begins to be afraid and his terror is only crescendo when the entity attacks his classmates, who came to make a pajamas evening, on maternal insistence.The latter is distraught: she no longer knows what to do to help her son.She has the impression of having failed, that her son does not love her and yet she mobilizes her meager resources continuously.

The father is much more serene, more detached in the face of the troubles that his son presents.He also does with it with the means at hand.His approach is that of accepting the situation while his wife seeks to fight her.

In line with Mama

If you have seen Mama, you will notice similarities with Come Play: a different child, who lives in his world, a somewhat malicious entity, but not too much and a very poetic end.Photography, quite dark is also quite similar, just like the very refined soundtrack.

The final result is a film with finesse and poetry.It’s a horror film, but it’s also a movie on parenting.The only difference is that there is a monster in the middle.We do not know its origin, we do not know how it was created or why he chose to nest in a tablet, but he is present.

We do not dwell on the creation of the monster, because it does not really matter.What remains is a discomfort, which is quietly installed, insidiously, which is amplified because they are children.When a child says to see a monster in his closet or under his bed, as an adult, you don't believe it.We start from the postulate that this is an invention, a childish terror.

Our adult terrors want to be more rational, more mathematical, more constructed and we call this anxieties.However, they are as unreal as children's terrors.We are no longer afraid of monsters under our bed, but we make other monsters.Maybe some people need to be afraid, just to work.

Come Play is available on DVD and Blu-ray.