William Friedkin's new movie "Bug"Â seems to be a romantic drama at the beginning, but it turns into horror, psychodrama at the end. Friedkin's movies usually are not easy to forget, they stay in minds and make your imagination think of scary things.
The "Bug"Â is about two damaged people who meet and damage each other lives further.
Ashley Judd plays Agnes, who is a lonely waitress living in Oklahoma motel. She uses too much vodka and drug, she smokes too much. Her only friend is lesbian waitress R.C. (Lynn Collins), who flirts with Agnes and makes her feel wanted.
The phone in Agnes's room doesn't stop ringing, but when she picks up the phone, there no one on the other end speaking. Agnes assumes that it is her cruel criminal ex husband (Harry Connick Jr.). But one evening she found out that it's Peter (Michael Shannon) calling. He is a tall former military guy whom R.C. introduced to Agnes at bar.
Peter looks a little scary, especially when he holds the lamp too close to his face. Peter is telling Agnes almost every day that he is not like her ex husband and that he doesn't need sex. He tells a story of him, about how he became a victim of an experience when insects were inserted into his body. Now he's in escape from the Government, but the bugs inside his skin are signaling the doctors where he is. Agnes says to Peter "I'd rather talk with you about bugs than about nothing with nobody".
Sooner Agnes starts imagining and adds her own fantasia to this story about bugs. Peter can explain every single situation of Agnes's life and he has answers to all her questions, this is why she strongly believes him. Agnes is looking through Peter's microscope at his skin and she really believes she can see the bugs. Meanwhile Agnes's husband gets freed from jail and tries to make Agnes let him in back to their 'family' life.
The movie is R rated because of alcohol, drug use, sex, nudity and language. The "Bug"Â runs 120 minutes and is open at the theatre.
By Ruzan Harutyunyan for HULIQ
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