Casting Call Over Marisha Pessl's Night Film

It could be asserted that movies are the greatest magic trick ever conceived. A group of strangers gather someplace and pretend to be people other than themselves. They are told where and how to move. They speak words written for them by yet another stranger. Their actions are recorded by mechanical means, combined with music written after the fact, shipped around the world, and thrown onto giant screens as a collection of light, shadow, and sound. The combination of all these ingredients and effects can make a person laugh involuntarily, cry, check under the bed before turning out the light, or view an aspect of their lives from a whole new angle.

There’s something almost alarming about such influence, especially when it sneaks up on us in the dark. Tricks can be benign, but they can also be the opposite of treats. Marisha Pessl’s new Night Film wraps a fast-paced thriller around an exploration of some of the darker ways in which reality can become blurred when the “magic of the movies” escapes from the screen.

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