Telekinetics – not a word that you come
across every day. It refers to the ability to move things at a distance. When
the much-disturbed Seattle teenager Andrew Detmer (Dane DeHaan) visits cousin Matt
(Alex Russell) and Steve (Michael Jordan) for a rave party, the trio stumble
upon a strange blue object in a crevice. Soon thereafter, they discover that their
visit to this object has lent them telekinetic abilities. However, do the trio limit
themselves to using the same for some well-meaning harmless fun? Well, two of
them are in agreement on that, but not Andrew. Bearing much pent-up frustration
at a decrepit domestic life including a dying mother and an incessantly abusive
father, there is no end to the extent that Andrew will go to, to vent his ire
at a world that he feels is decidedly unfair, and, in that vein, any punishment
meted upon the world at large through Andrew’s new-found powers is justly
deserved. And how does all of this end? Chronicle is one of the few instances
where found-film footage, now a hackneyed genre, really comes through well to
create a twisted, captivating spectacle of amplified teenage angst
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