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10 Cloverfield Lane Was the Perfect Claustrophobic Paranoid Thriller for the 2010s
10 Cloverfield Lane arrived five years ago this month, and it serves as an interesting time capsule. It’s an ambitious and underappreciated thriller, one that offers a snapshot of the decade’s simmering tensions.
10 Cloverfield Lane is arguably best understood as part of a wave of intensely paranoid and claustrophobic thrillers that arrived between 2015 and 2016. Characters in these thrillers often found themselves trapped or confined, at the mercy of a seemingly hostile world outside and often a more immediate threat inside. It’s an unexplored trend in the pop culture of that moment. Examined in hindsight, it feels hauntingly prescient.
Warning: As you may have guessed by its stealth production
(no one really knew it existed before a trailer dropped), the less you know
about Dan Trachtenberg’s “10 Cloverfield Lane,” the better. It is a film that
plays on forced perspective, keeping you in the dark about what exactly is
going on. I will tread very lightly in the review to follow, but I won’t be
hurt if you want to click away right about now. Come back after you ve seen it.
“10 Cloverfield Lane” is a tight, tense thriller carried by
excellent performances from John Goodman and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. It has