Run (2020) - Truths Hurt!

 

★★☆☆☆

First off, it's my bad that I mistook 'Run' for 'The Act', a TV series telling a true story of a daughter teaming up with her boyfriend to kill her mother who had been overprotective of her and even fabricating her illness and disabilities so as to keep and control her! 'Run' is NOT based on a single true event but a made up story of several real-life tragedies. Director Aneesh Chaganty has done something like this before in 'Searching', which appears to be closer to real-life, less dramatic and thus more engrossing throughout than 'Run'!

'Run' only runs about 90 minutes so I expected it to be not a slow burn but its pace turns out much faster than I imagined as a matter of fact. It wastes no time taking you from the suspicion that the daughter has about her mother deliberately cutting her off from the outside world by lying to her about her illnesses, to the confrontations between the two! Things escalate dramatically, and there're twists and turns that are actually not so much of a surprise to me, the ending in particular, which is supposed to drop jaws but it turns me off even a bit more! I'd rather 'Run' served as a slow-burn psychological thriller than simply a superficial, entertaining piece of cake like this.

After all, this is how it is when selfishness and manipulations go extreme! The mother seems to be doing it for the good sake of her daughter but you know she's only doing it for herself, and thus suffocating and hurting her child! Said that a lie told a thousand times becomes true if it's not anyhow proven a lie! And you know what, the scariest part is not the lie itself but the getting used to it and not wanting to be hurt by truths! Pathetically, that's what's been going on in China!