A decent Scottish thriller

Red Road is a Scottish thriller which I had to see with subtitles, as the language in the movie was very hard to follow. The movie is about a middle aged lonely Scottish woman of whom we know nothing about except what she does for a living. Her job is to monitor the spy cameras, which apparently are placed at every nook and corner of the little town where she lives. Most of the time she just stares at the monitors, zooms in and out on a few people and then just observes life on the street. She does not have a personal life and when she needs physical intimacy, she will just have sex with her colleague in his car, without any emotional feelings.

One day on her job, she finds this person on the TV monitor and she immediately identifies him. He is a criminal who was jailed a few years ago and he should not be on the streets. She later finds out that he was released from the jail on the account of good behavior. She is not happy and she starts to monitor his every action on camera. After finding out his daily activities, one day she just shows up at a party in his house and meets him. These scenes were filmed in mysterious and eerie way that it keeps us on the edge and makes us wonder what her intentions are. Her intentions are not revealed till the end when I got to know them, I was slightly disappointed. The movie would have been just great if her motivations weren't explained.

The best thing about the movie is that it never goes for cheap thrills. There is very little background score unlike regular Hollywood movies which feel the need to give emotional cues on where the audience should feel sad, thrilled, etc. On the whole, the movie is very engaging and is recommended.