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All Andrew (Eugene Simon), a young and basically insignificant postman,
wanted to do was find something out about his father (Richard Goble) he
has never known through a DNA test, but instead of getting result, he gets
drawn into some super secret gouvernment agency run by one Dr. Marinus
(Alastair G. Cumming) where he's to be trained by special agents Nadia
(Emily Wyatt) and May (Jennifer Martin) to be some kind of super agent
with the ability to bend reality - and it's not that he has much choice
either, as the agency threatens to harm his mother (voiced by Maggie
Turner), who, along with his father she has always refused to speak of,
actually seem to be involved with the agency. Others are trained at the
agency as well, Shaan (Anil Desai), Rebecca (Bethan Wright) and Yuri (Kai
Francis Lewis), and it seems neither is there by choice, and also none of
them know the actual motives of the agency - which don't get any clearer
through their missions, which get more bizarre and self-destructive each
time ... until all of Andrew's colleagues are shot dead and he wakes up in
Dr. Marinus office, fetching the results of his DNA test. But instead of
handing them over, the good doctor has Andrew sign a release - that
without Andrew's knowledge pushes him even deeper into the rabbit hole ... Now
Sensation is not a film that tries to have all the answers to the
questions it asks - in fact it makes it a sport to remain utterly vague
throughout and at best hint at the bigger context ... and that's really
what makes the film so engaging, as it pushes the audience into its
mazelike story and forces the viewer to make one's own conclusions - to
more often than not subvert whatever has just been told into something
very different. But this loss of orientation is the main source of the
film's tension and suspense, the trying to find one's way part of the
fascination. Now that one doesn't get just lost in all of this is of
course thanks to a clever script, but also to grounded and relatable
performances, and a direction that finds just the right balance between
the mystery and the "reality" of the movie, all of which makes
for a rather unusual but highly entertaining thriller.
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