As his first film, Paul Tamasy directed Depravity, a crime thriller where Victoria Justice plays the main character, and is, for some reason, a very uninspired, banal kind of crime thriller which tries to shed light on man’s natural evil in the most boring and drawn, run of the millennials and a number of bloody pranks, and so on. The story is quite basic and intriguing, but the outcome is very disappointing. the acting and character are most times over-act, which makes the two-hour shooting and film like forever. The last episode is lost and does not contribute anything to the emotional side of the story. By the time the last scene comes and it’s to Depravity, you probably wouldn’t be caring about the characters and how their fate would be either as the story did not make you care at any point to begin with.
Who murdered the otherwise peace-loving Carl Evers?
A single episode takes place in the old stately apartment complex, the Lancaster. Law student Grace and Moma, an art student and curator of a local museum share the apartment. Aria gets a new neighbor as the couple Alex, who is a freshly retired professional footballer after being injured and had a forceful exit from his fascinating way of life. Alex easily bonds with Grace while Aria stays at the periphery, which is disclosed later to be as a result of tormenting break-up with her partner, abusive boyfriend David. It is also brought to the fore that only, not long ago, several females have gone missing in the local district and already it was too much for Manny, the caretaker of the house to look for any woman he fancied to help in his search for the answers, but instead decide to conduct his own undertakings.
He becomes interested in his new neighbor, Carl Evers, who claims to be a quiet person but regularly brings over shady characters and rarely speaks to anyone. Manny tells him he has been hearing strange sounds coming from Carl’s room, which raises Alex’s concerns. Once, Carl has brought a young girl to his apartment as a date and at night, where the girl was sitting in the same room with her friends, was suddenly woken up by shrill screams, which was followed by other noises which were far more rude.
The other day, the girl never appeared leaving from the room of Carl while on the hand, Alex spots Carl at the basement of the apartment complex, where the incinerator is and starts sifting through ash. From this situation, Alex comes to the insane conclusion that Carl is the serial killer who has been snatching up girls like the one from yesterday only to murder them and burn their bodies in the incinerator. Alex has lost all reason to the extent of going and reporting Carl to the police secretly because his paranoia is on the rise. In the end he decides to wait for his target- Carl to leave; he deludes to climbing through the ceiling crawlspace to enter the apartment, leaving Grace rather unhappy and in the apartment, he thinks some serial killer’s items turned out to be an S&M-type basement and an art statue of a dead person. In succession, Alex finds four million dollars drachma tucked underneath the floor and quickly runs away through the laundry chute as Carl steps in the very second behind him.
Carl is so much more interested in sharing his story with Grace as she surprises herself and becomes sexually turned on because the new thought of being in the serial killer’s hideout excites her and goes against Aria and decides with Carl that the two of them will enter his apartment uninvited.
Carl, however, manages to come back to his apartment, sicking his dog on Alex, and attempts to strike Grace. By the time Aria gets there, Carl maims Grace with a butcher’s knife, while Alex manages to shoot his dog. Afraid of the consequences of their actions, all three of them decide to clean the place of their crime and as such, all possible places of evidence are burnt in an incinerator. Even though Aria knows that taking a life is bad, she willingly did it and is ashamed of having performed such an action; Alex, however, blames the crime on the trio who entered their property. Alex even considers it heroic for them to have shot Carl as a serial killer, which he thinks he was.
However, there is no doubt that Tovia knows the truth because Tovia’s theory is absolutely plausible: how can Claud and Tovia hate three people without an obvious reason? This makes Tovia feel very uncomfortable since, as she witnessed, Grace was killed, and further confirms that three were responsible for the death of Claud’s wife.
Tovia and her boyfriend, Claude, are art thieves turned vicious murderers, and Carl, a tech nerd, was their business partner who set up a tripwire network in his household where he kept their earnings and stolen art works which were looted. The money which Alex had recovered and which was Carl’s stash was later taken by Tovia and her boyfriend after they murdered a drug addict art dealer and his entire family. Grace and Alex had also managed to get inside without attracting Carl’s attention because they came in from the roof space and Carl had reason to believe Tovia and Claude had made off with his looted riches and works of art. Despite this, Tovia and Claude the ‘twins’ commanded the lives of the three. To make matters worse for Aira, And Carl has video evidence of their intrusion because he set up extra cameras to cover the main entrance Considering that Grace has at one time ill advisedly walked through the main door.
As they are unable to provide an acceptable explanation, Claude inexplicably kills Grace, which brings the police’s attention towards him. Aria is pushed by detective Polk to know something about the art thieves since she can already be regarded as a potential suspect, but Aria maintains a mask of calmness without breaking. Thereafter, Alex scrambles to convince her yet again to go to Carl’s apartment to get some cash, search for the artwork, and obliterate the monstrosities of the hidden cameras. Aria finally consents to doing so, but at the time of the event, Alex has been taken captive by Claudia and Tovia, who begin to enjoy torturing him for what they regard as much needed information.
Who Survived At The End?
Ultimately, Alex is the one who delivers Aria because he discrete the guard in charge of looking for Aria inside Carl’s apartment and took them through the vents. Aria is restrained and called out for tortures which conducted by Claude because she knows the location of the artworks worth billions, since the works are believed to have been painted by Gough, Vermeer, and Picasso. Tovia continues enhancing her stretch towards torturing Alex but gets over confident and leaves herself open, which results in her being shot dead by Alex.
As Alex also manages to murder Claude and save Aria, a fire is ignited inside the apartment. Rather than letting one of them die, Alex instead chokes Aria and consequently forces her to tell him where the artworks are, to which Aria, who is convinced that the two have been safe in the laundry chute, asserts but doesn’t reveal where the two are. Underneath the cut, she had approached her husband a long time ago with the idea of taking Carl’s paintings and Alexander’s greed helped push her plot forward. Aria further narrates how she has been disillusioned with men owing to domestic violence of her former partner David, whom she killed, making it hard for her to trust men. Aria sees this resource as a means of terminating Alex as he is placed at the very bottom of the wash basin. As he lands there, he is shocked to see a bunch of dollars all around him and jumps out with two pictures he had found lying on the ground. Aria smashes the window and escapes the burning unit before her barge burns to shreds. As firemen finish the task of drowning the apartment and the stench of smoke drives the cameras haywire, Alex watches the last of the cctv drives go so that no one can see Aria.
Aria was later seen working as a curator/guide at the Louvre where she always wanted to work.
After the paintings were sold off, or probably donated to the Louvre for charity (because western museums are a bit selective about what is pirated), it is evident that she has well advanced her support and settlement. Living in confidence that none of her transgressions can ever be pinned on her, Aria, who holds the divine perspective of revenge feels undeterred by any limits.
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