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In this sense, at least, The Guilty is very much based on reality. The Guilty is a clever Danish thriller that takes full advantage of the strengths and weaknesses of modern communications.

Throughout The Guilty, Joe seems on the brink of a mental breakdown, and while his character and the others in the film are not specifically based on real people, Joe’s stress and sense of helplessness in The Guilty are likely true effects of the job. The absence of those details, combined with the central 911 call at the center of The Guilty, help to make it a movie that has a significant arc and really comes together by the end. Though the subplot of The Guilty's main character, Joe Baylor (played by crime-movie star, Jake Gyllenhaal) involves an episode of police brutality that is not in the original Danish film, both films focus on a call-center operator becoming involved with a kidnapping. Wildly disparate lives converge in this two-part television thriller about a respected London barrister facing a career-ending rape charge and a punk ex-con caught up in a dangerous conspiracy while searching for his biological father. Set to the backdrop of the California wildfires and with a subplot involving police brutality, The Guilty's story holds a certain sense of veracity, but how much of the film is true? As The Guilty is a remake of the 2018 Danish film Den Skyldige, one would need to trace the story back to its source to find the truth. 1 on Netflix.Watching Jake Gyllenhaal’s The Guilty,it is not hard to believe that the dark thriller could be based on a true story. “The Guilty” premieres in select US theaters on Sept. Thanks to that, “The Guilty” manages to take Joe – and the audience sharing this confined space with him – on a pretty frenetic ride into the darkness, without ever venturing out into the light of day. Still, such quibbles don’t diminish the intensity of the earlier sequences or Gyllenhaal’s performance. The movie doesn’t finish as well as it might have, particularly in terms of fleshing out Joe’s story, and it could have been shorter – akin to a “Black Mirror” episode – without losing much.

Troubled LAPD officer Joe Baylor is working the night shift at a 911 call center while he awaits a court hearing for an incident that occurred on duty eight months prior. The irony is that Netflix intends to give the movie a brief theatrical window before it streams, when this might be about as ideal an at-home, second-screen-viewing vehicle as you’re apt to find.Īlthough this serves as an obvious showcase for the star (who also produced the film), the intriguing auspices reunite him with “Southpaw” director Antoine Fuqua along with writer Nic Pizzolatto ( “True Detective”), who wring as much as they can out of Joe’s ordeal in a way that makes this more than just another logistical exercise in Covid-19 filmmaking. Call operator Joe Baylor (Gyllenhaal) tries to save a caller in grave danger-but he soon discovers that nothing is as it seems, and facing the truth is the only way out. (Thanks to sheer volume, on Netflix even the narrowest concepts fit somewhere within a subgenre.) Born on December 19, 1980, Gyllenhaal is the son of director Stephen. But sadly, he is ignored when the awards season comes forward. Gyllenhaal is one of the most versatile actors of this generation and has given many award-worthy performances. With minimal support from the actors playing his coworkers and the voices on the line (Peter Sarsgaard, Riley Keough and Ethan Hawke among them), Gyllenhaal impressively holds the screen for roughly 90 minutes, often with the camera positioned in claustrophobic close-ups.įrom that perspective, the film has a fair amount in common with another Netflix thriller, the recent French sci-fi offering “Oxygen,” which tasked Mélanie Laurent with holding the viewer’s attention while talking to unseen voices. Official poster of The Guilty (Netflix) ADVERTISEMENT. Shot during the height of the pandemic, the entire movie takes place in that single location. Beyond that, nothing is necessarily as it seems, as the story unfolds while a series of wildfires light up the Los Angeles horizon, adding to a sense of tension within the call center and distinguishing the setting. What’s happening? About all we know is that Gyllenhaal’s Joe Baylor is a street cop who has been temporarily assigned to this desk work, and that a pesky reporter keeps calling. Remaking a 2018 Danish movie, “The Guilty” is a taut, remarkably spare thriller that casts Gyllenhaal as a 911 dispatcher, taking a series of disparate calls – and one particularly significant one involving an imperiled woman – while clearly struggling with a separate personal crisis. If you like Jake Gyllenhaal up close and sweaty, do we have a movie for you.