- Elisabeth Moss is the star of "Invisible Man" as a wife persecuted by her husband.
- This horror film plays with gender codes to denounce violence against women.
- The intense performance of the actress adds to the thrills of the spectator.
"Intense" is the adjective that could define Elisabeth Moss and it is not her composition in Leigh Whannell's Invisible Man that will make one say the opposite. She is persecuted there by her violent husband, a case that would be sadly ordinary except that the latter is supposed to be dead and that he tracks her down without her being able to see him.
The director of Insidious revisits the myth of the invisible man created by the novelist HG Wells and popularized by many feature films, notably with Claude Rains in 1933, Chevy Chase in 1992 and Kevin Bacon in 2000. In this new version, he denounces the harassment suffered by a wife whose scientific husband has devised a very vicious way of making her sink into dementia. “I knew she could play this form of descent into hell without excess. Elisabeth was the guarantor of the authenticity of my film, ”says Leigh Whannell in the press kit.
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Abused on screen
Elisabeth Moss is no more her first attempt in the role of a heroine victim of a brutal patriarchy than in that of a victim of horror film. The series The Handmaid's Tale and the horrific fort Us of Jordan Peel where she played a bourgeois and her evil double, had already put her in the bath. "It was important to imagine relationships that were not only violent from a physical point of view, but also emotional and psychological," she said. Her character is all the more damaged because nobody wants to believe that her husband is invisible and that everyone thinks she is crazy to bind. His suffering is increased tenfold by the disbelief of his loved ones.
Speak out against violence
I nvisible Man aims to go further than a simple horror series B to denounce violence against women. And it works all the better because of the power of Elisabeth Moss' performance to share her ordeal with the spectator. "I hope that this film will allow all those who have suffered from this kind of violence to feel better represented and supported," insists the actress. This re-reading of a myth that one might have thought worn out proves that genre cinema never ceases to surprise. And that we will always be happy to see Elisabeth Moss in roles as well written as the one she plays in Invisible Man .
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