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I simply cannot praise this movie too highly. I found myself completely immersed in the experience - I cried twice, I yipped, I flinched - I cared.
I'm unaffected by shaky-cam nausea; alas, at least one of my friends who went to see it at my urging threw up in her popcorn bucket half an hour in. When it comes out on DVD, I'm sure that seeing it on the small screen will mute the shaky-cam nausea effect.
It's hard to talk about why I enjoyed it so much without spoilers, so I'll just say this: they did it right. There's no sound track - lots of ambient sound, but no dramatic music to warn you the bad things are about to jump at you, or to signal when you should expect an emotional moment. Instead you have the echoing not-quite-silence of an abandoned subway station as the backdrop to one character haltingly giving his mother bad news via his cell phone. I cried.
Oh, and word of advice? When all of the rats are running toward you, turn around and run with them. Outrun them if you can. Smart animals, rats.
