the moment you're seen
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A family is fine until the housekeeper opens the wrong door. A courier is fine until the wrong car slows down beside his truck. A UFO that has learned not to eat what looks back at it. In each of these, nothing bad happens until someone is spotted — the plot doesn't turn on an action, it turns on a gaze landing where it wasn't supposed to.
Parasite
No Country for Old Men
Misery
Mysterious Skin
M
Us
Burning
The Servant
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