While recovering from an attack by a deranged fan, mega-successful horror writer Lucas Black mentors a strange young woman with a hidden past. As her real story is revealed, however, an even greater danger arises that just might destroy them both.

 

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What if … My Fair Lady was actually a dark, psychological thriller? Imagine Professor Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle in a clandestine battle to the death in the third act. For most people, Perspectives is just that: disturbing, surprising, a wild ride, with an ending reveal of a caliber that hasn’t been seen since Psycho. And yet, it is far more.

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In Perspectives as the name signals, there is more than just the engaging, gripping and twisting story of the world’s most famous writer Lucas Black, and the strange young woman who comes to occupy his house, and eventually becomes his mortal challenge in more ways than one.

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The theme, which I believe is even more important, speaks to the contemporary social transition of power that we are seeing in the world, from an exclusive patriarchal sensibility to one that sees the rise of often-victimized, feminine perspective. Felicity Keye is a survivor of a progressively revealed child-abuse horror, but so, we learn, is Lucas Black. The scars that both of them carry initially seem a common bond. Both have been abused. Both have seemingly channeled their trauma into art. Both have an inherent and earned emotional distance from the outside world. Soon, though, the differences become paramount, and the friction becomes the source of the story’s artistic conflict. When eventually cut off from the rest of the world in Black’s gothic estate by a fierce storm, their climactic reveal becomes, literally, quite primitive and personal.

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Then again … maybe it is enough that it just gave us one hell of a good scare.