DIMENSIONI PT.2

After the failure of the experiment on patient n.11, the team of doctors prepares to continue the "cures" on a new patient, but one of them seems hesitant. Meanwhile, a police commissioner goes to the clinic to investigate some mysterious disappearances. With his fourth film, Stefano Visintin tries his hand at a sequel and attempts to continue "Dimensions", his very successful second work. This time, the director tries to bring the semi-dreamlike experience of the previous film to a tangible level, abandoning the dimensional gap to focus the narrative on the plane of reality. The viewer cannot know what is real, this is clear, because the disorienting repetitiveness of the environments in which the characters move never gives a sense of sensory familiarity, just as the dark motives that drive the doctors always have something "unreal" about them. However, the insertion of elements belonging to everyday reality, such as the police commissioner, and the discussions that allude to a mephistophelian experiment, nevertheless bring the narrative onto undeniably concrete tracks. In the first film, everything revolved around patient number 11 and her dark past, in "Dimensions pt.2" the point of view changes and those doctors who had already appeared in the previous episode become the protagonists of the film, played, by the way, by the same actors, here visibly improved in their acting. The viewer can thus learn many significant elements deliberately left ambiguous in the first film, and understand that those who could seem like saviors are actually executioners devoted to poorly defined scientific experiments on human subjects. Despite the great narrative contribution that manages to pace and complete the previous film, the story told in "Dimensions pt.2" does not fully convince, it seems almost like a missed plot twist of the first film and gives the viewer the feeling of being faced with a transitional episode, a sort of "The Empire Strikes Back", which obviously lacks an opening and probably a real conclusion. As has happened with the director's previous works, "Dimensions pt.2" has a beautiful soundtrack and a well-crafted direction, although this time one can notice an excessive propensity for the "special effect" that in some cases dulls the impact of certain scenes. "Dimensions pt.2" is certainly inferior to the first chapter, but it remains a short film of excellent craftsmanship. At this point, we wait for a "Dimensions pt.3".