Sawyer Valentini (Claire Foy) voluntarily checks into a
hospital to see if she can get some help dealing with the fact that she has no
friends and just moved away from home in order to get away from a stalker that
she’s never told anyone about especially her mother (Amy Irving). When she is forced to stay at the hospital for
a mandatory 72 hours after she reveals to a doctor that she’s had thoughts
about killing herself her world will be turned upside down. This is the premise for UNSANE (2018) a new
psychological thriller from director Steven Soderbergh (and written by Jonathan
Bernstein and James Greer). Sawyer’s
quest starts off as a woman who just needs someone else to tell her story to
that she can trust but the nurses, hospital staff, and doctors have a different
agenda which is to keep as many patients in their beds for as long as possible or
until the insurance money runs out. In
addition to having to deal with the politics of her incarceration she also has
to deal with the fact that her stalker may have tracked her down and is posing
as a nurse at the hospital to get to her.
Soderbergh has crafted a tense thriller that manages to
balance the current hospital and insurance politics with the psychological
breakdown of the main character to great effect. Foy carries most of the film by herself as
she is not a weak character who will stand to be taken advantage of even in the
face of her greatest fear – a relentless stalker that will stop at nothing to possess
her.
Filmed entirely with an I-phone the film has a very personal
touch and keeps you engaged from beginning to end. Soderbergh has a lot to say with this film
(as he does with most of his great films) and this is definitely one of his
films that should not be missed.
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