The Innocents
2018
Original language: English
- sci-fi & fantasy
- drama
The story
When a teenage couple runs away to be together, the extraordinary gift they possess unleashes powerful forces intent on dividing them forever.
What it’s like
Cool, grey English landscapes and cramped London flats rendered in muted, slightly washed-out digital colour, with a restless handheld camera that stays close to faces and lingers on quiet domestic details: a kettle, a rain-streaked car window, a hallway light left on. Night scenes lean on sodium-orange streetlight and cold blue interiors, and the sound design mixes soft ambient hum with a pulsing electronic score that rises when the pressure builds. The mood is tense and watchful, a teen-drama ache under a layer of paranoia, moving at a steady, unhurried clip and building toward sharper set-pieces. Its central pair is young and earnest, and the drama lives in their nervous tenderness and the sense of a world closing in around them. Some scenes carry real physical danger, with brief, sudden violence and chase-style fear, but there is little gore and the cruelty stays more psychological than graphic. It suits a late-night watch with the lights low, and it's for viewers who like cerebral sci-fi grounded in ordinary life and a love story with stakes.
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