See for Me Review

October 6, 2021 at 8:22pm
By Jason Stettner

I was actually quite surprised by See for Me. It starts off rather slow introducing us to the lead, Sophie (Skyler Davenport) as she prepares to watch after some cats in a fancy cabin. There was some sort of incident that dashed her Olympic skiing dreams causing blindness. Sophie is fairly distraught by this relaxing in this quiet sort of house. She uses a special online network of individuals that will help guide her if issues arise and a small opening helps us get insight into how that works.

This of course is just setting the stage for some action and big surprises. It turns out the house she’s watching might not be as quiet as expected with a group of thieves heading in there to take something hidden and special. This is where things get somewhat interesting as it’s almost a bit comical in that neither her or the thieves initially come into contact with each other.

I don’t want to spoil things, but there is definitely some more action like sequences once they clash but it also leans on suspense horror to some degree. Knowing there are others there and not directly being able to see what they’re doing. It does sort of go in an expected way when things continue towards the conclusion but it certainly has some shocking twists along the way that will keep you engaged with what’s going on.

The film does a really great job of painting this very desolate place. It sort of mirrors the elements of a protagonist that feels sort of empty after traumatic events that have left her in this sort of state. There was a solid performance from Davenport as the lead. I quite liked how she was able to be confident in movement, while at the same time understanding how things have changed in her life at this point.

There was a bit of personality to the individuals she was dealing with though they were somewhat generic as well. The action moments were framed well feeling impactful in use of camera guidance and the lead being in an unsafe panic about what’s going on. Her guidance assistant provided a neat perspective, with that being Kelly (Jessica Parker Kennedy).

The Conclusion

See for Me provides a sort of haunting feeling while also having action moments as this blind woman battles back against a group of thieves. It leaves some things a tad open at the end, but also is fairly straight forward in how it wraps up. It’s a bit of horror I’d say, at least how it’s framed with suspenseful times being littered throughout.

It was definitely something surprising, at least for me as I didn’t anticipate some of the bigger twists that it would take throughout the journey. It seems like it’s heading in one direction and then things get rather tense fast which was a neat shift. It definitely has some fun surprises to it and it might shift from your expectations suddenly which made it more interesting. At least, I thought those elements did.

See for Me Review at Home with Streamed Viewing during Calgary Film Festival
Screening Provided by Calgary Film

Rating Overall: 7.4