STARRING
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Shia Labeouf, Sarah Roemer, David Morse, Carrie Anne Moss, Aaron Yoo.

Awards
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4 Wins, 3 nominations.

SYNOPSIS
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The film begins depicting a father, son moment between the protagonist and his 'pop,' as they unfold what seems to be a male bonding session that evidently does not happen for these two figures often. The two share quirky yet snappy comments beginning with the father wondering if Kale has anything he wants talk to him about, and answering almost immediately and extremely sarcastically...'Oh is this that moment, that father son moment?' To which he then continues that he had impregnated a girl and is going to have to visit her in Reno and they are going to get a trailer park and live there with their unfortunate 'love child.' Then after hours of futile fishing, the two start out their journey home with a little more acerbic joking and comments. We are then exposed to Kale driving the car, on the phone as the shot changes to a depiction of the location in which the remainder of the film is adorned by. In the new shot we see Kale's seemingly housewife mother cooking dinner in their all American suburban family home. As she talks to Kale she joins in with the joking adding her maternal nature to the comedy in which is made successful by self-named comedian Shia Labeouf. Kale passes the phone to his father as an idiotic driver almost crashes into the car. After shouting 'Jackass' stridently out of the window he sees the car begin to swerve across the narrow road, slowly making its way back in front of Kale. Julie (Carrie Anne Moss, Mom) continues to talk to Daniel (Dad) as they joke about how much fish they caught, as well as a prank they pulled last time, as they bought fish from the store and exposed it to be the result of their own miraculous hunting skills. After debating how long the journey home would be, the black SUV in front makes a vast, senseless turn forcing Kale and his father to hit the back of a parked car, try to keep steady as they slide up the side of it, subsequently turning on its back and losing almost every part of the vehicle itself. As the kale ad Daniel try to minimise their hurt by keeping still and attempting to comfort each other, Kale says quietly yet extremely anxiously 'Dad!' as another car soars down the road and smashes effortlessly into them. As the riot starts to slow Kale carefully climbs out of the car and timidly with a fragile, feeling hops around to his father's side of the car. The scene is climaxed by a saddened, distressed expression upon the face of a young boy witnessing a traumatic experience...the death of his loving, beloved father.

Shia Labeouf
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One day in sunny California, an intelligent, strong minded, young male named unusually Shia Labeouf, after a stand up comedy act, explained to his mother that he wanted to try a professional career in acting. In agreement his mother replied that in order to achieve he needs an agent. After finding one whom worked for Disney, he was asked to perform his usual stand up act. He was loved by the company who then took him on and found him one of the lead roles in a hit children's television show named The Even Steven's, in which we saw him constantly fighting with his sister Ren, much like you and your brother/ sister. His general idiosyncratic elements brought to the character were a big hit, landing him bigger stories and finally a fantastic offer to be in a new motion picture release, produced by Disney, named Holes. He played the innocent lead character that is thrown in the youth camp for young criminals, only he didn't commit a crime....No the stolen shoes just happened to fall over the boys head. Of course we know that Stanley (Labeouf) is innocent and follow his story closely in order to find his emotions and roll with them. Labeouf is fantastic and famous for bringing this element to his performances. This does not differ in Disturbia as Labeouf shows off his skills and you can 100% feel is horror when his father dies, the terror when he begins his paranoia and his love for the girl next door. His emotions are fantastically with you through the whole film. Performance= *****

Carrie Anne Moss
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Moss really needs no introduction. Known more famously for her extremely dominant role in The Matrix as the love interest of Neo, named Trinity. Her usual character generally would consist of skimpy, skin tight outfits, lots of kicking and fighting, and a huge amount of intellect, however her role in this is simply a maternal role in which she fundamentally is a recovering mum. Springing back to reality must have been nice for Moss and her performance in this shows it, as she is completely natural not too dissimilar to Roemer's. Her performance is borderline great as she is 100% conceivable as an everyday mother. Performance= ****

Special and visual effects
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From the beginning of the movie the effects are entirely vast and immense. As the car scene continues we witness a passionately powerful crash which sets the standard for the rest of the events. The sequence contains fantastic collisions between three cars and makes the danger and seriousness of the films voyeuristic narrative more concentrated. To add to the Voyeurism Kale (Labeouf) uses a hand held camera to film the evidence of the suspicious happenings. This gives a Blair Witch feel to the depiction as the screen trembles with the characters making it just that little bit more real. There are quite a few scenes which require this and most characters including best friend Ronnie and mom Julie, get a chance to be the object of horror. These elements just make the movie more and more horrific and keeps you wanting more and more.

Many of the songs in the film are slow more intense songs such as; System of a down's 'Lonely Day,' which plays just after Kale is sentenced to house arrest for certain duration. The song exposes his feelings of being alone in his house and could also hold connotations of his lamentation for his father. Other songs used to create this atmosphere are, 'Dream' performed by Priscilla Ahn, 'Always Love' which is a One Tree Hill favourite so fans may be acquainted, performed by Nada Surf.