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Rising Wolf (also known as Ascendent) is a 2021 Australian science fiction/thriller film[1] staring Charlotte Best, Jonny Pasvolsky and Alex Menglet.

The movie as about a young woman who wakes up in an elevator to find that she is being used to extract information from her father by repeatedly being dropped. By the end of her ordeal, she accepts who she is and her supernatural powers.

Plot[edit]

A young woman, Aria Wolf, wakes up blindfolded and hands tied in an elevator in Shanghai with no memory of how she got there. A video screen behind her crackles, and the elevator drops, tossing Aria and knocking her out. The elevator stops before crashing and slowly ascends.

Upon waking up, Aria frees herself from her bindings. She discovers an exit in the ceiling, but it is too high for her to reach. Her phone beeps, and she listens to a voicemail from her mother in which she hears her family escaping in a car with gunshots in the background. She hears her father speaking to Dr. Thompson, who promises to keep Zara safe, and then speaking to her uncle Jack saying that the family has been comprised. The voice mail ends with the sound of a car crash.

Debris falls on top of the elevator causing it to plummet again. Aria tries to call the emergency number for the elevator, but it is cut off when the phone loses the signal. Trying to force the doors open, the elevator falls a short distance. Aria uses the security intercom to contact someone when power returns, but they tell her they cannot locate her. The elevator falls again, knocking her out.

Aria dreams of herself and Zara, her sister, as young children on a beach, discussing how they need to stop events in the future. When she wakes up, the image of a man hanging from his wrists flashes on the screen. Aria manages to get the doors partially open. A security camera zooms in on her as she tries to get out, and the elevator falls again, knocking her out again.

Aria sees herself and Zara locked in a safe, discussing telling their parents about who they are, as Aria shows that she can dematerialize and rematerialize her hand. Her mother, Barbra, discusses with her father, Richard, how the girls never get sick, have strange markings on their forearms, and nature responds to them like trees that miraculously grow next to the house. Richard is skeptical until Zara shows him how she can create plants out of thin air.

Aria wakes up to her phone ringing and her mother tells her to keep the phone hidden and if she escapes to find her sister, Zara. The call ends with the sounds of a struggle and a gunshot. A while later, Aria wakes up to a call from her uncle Jack, who gives her some instructions before the signal drops again. Then the screen lights up revealing a her father tied up and beaten by an unknown man. The man demands the location of "the engineer", tortures her father and then instructs a henchman to drop the elevator, knocking her out once more.

Aria dreams of a time when she was surfing with her father. Her father asks about how she and her sister can control nature, but Aria reveals that only Zara can control nature while she can see the future. Upon waking up, Aria calls Jack, who reveals that Richard is a CIA operative and the family has been in witness protection for the last 12 years, with Jack protecting them from afar. Her captor is a Russian mercenary named Yaroslav, who wants information that only Richard knows. The screen lights up again and Aria hides her phone as she watches Yaroslav's men continue to torture her father for the location. When he refuses, the elevator is once again dropped.

Aria remembers a conversation with her sister as children where Aria makes Zara swear to not interfere in a future event, no matter what happens. Also, she suggests that they stop using their powers so as to protect their parents. Zara refuses and is shown later in rain with blood on her hands, saying that the man had to die for his cruelty, just like all other humans. When they are found by their parents, Aria admits to killing the man instead of Zara.

Returning to the present, Aria witnesses her father being tortured some more, and Yarslov again sends the elevator falling, knocking Aria out again. Aria sees herself in the future, accusing Zara of killing millions before screaming in rage. When she wakes up, she once again calls Jack saying that she cannot take any more of this. Jack informs her that they will be killed once Yarlov has the information and asks if she recalls her father making phone calls about a girl or an engineer. Confused, Aria states they are just an average family and that she doubts Jack can help her. The screen comes back on to reveal her father, and Aria encourages him to tell Yarslov the information this will end. Richard again refuses, and the screen goes black. Returning to her conversation with Jack, he reveals that Richard was tasked with transporting a chemical engineer and his daughter with extraordinary powers. The engineer had developed a means of improving humans and Richard was helping them when the Russians found them and tried to captured them. They failed, all of Yarslov's men were killed, and only Richard knows where the engineer and girl are.

Noticing a panel in the side of the elevator, Aria tries to escape but fails and is forced to return to the elevator. Answering a call from Jack, she reveals that she has found a way out. Jack encourages her not to use it, as this will result in Richard's death. The elevator drops again and she loses her phone out the hole. Looking through the hole, she sees the phone out of reach and breaks down in despair. After witnessing her father get tortured some more, she retrieves her phone and tries to call Jack, only to realize that Yaroslav is watching her. He threatens her father, forcing Aria to reveal that she is in contact with the CIA. Yaroslav tells her to call them and get the location of the engineer before cutting the connection. Aria calls Jack and informs him that their communication has been discovered. Jack tells her that they are close to finding her, but she needs to get Richard to reveal the engineer's location. It is then revealed that Jack has actually been Yaroslav using a voice changer.

Yaroslav returns on the screen demanding the information. Aria asks to talk to her father alone, but keeps the phone on so Jack can hear. Her father reveals that he made up the engineer to avoid this situation, as Aria had warn him years ago that this situation would happen. Aria asks where Zara is, to which he replies that she is safe and was hidden after Aria had killed the man. Aria confesses that she took the blame for Zara. When Aria reveals that she has been in contact with Jack, Richard is suspicious that Yaroslav would leave her with a phone, at which time Yaroslav reveals his decit and is angry that Richard had him chasing a ghost all these years. Richard tells Aria to play an voice mail on her phone which causes Aria to bend in pain and remember a time when she was in a safe and made the safe disintegrate. Yaroslav shoots Richard and sends the elevator plummeting. Aria focuses and causes the elevator to dematerialize and becomes a ball of light. Yaroslav and his henchmen go to leave, but Yaroslav is delayed and just misses getting into the elevator. The elevator wall changes into a face with glowing eyes and then drops killing the men. Aria rematerializes and reunites with her father. Dying, he encourages Aria to accept who she is and that there are things beyond her control. Aria leave the building to find her sister. Flashing to Zara on a beach, Zara walks away from the beach as Aria is shown walking into the city.

External Links[edit]

Rising Wolf at IMDb

Story Recapped on YouTube, "Girl Dropped From Crazy Heights in Trapped Elevator"

References[edit]

  1. Rising Wolf (2021) - Antaine Furlong | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie, retrieved 2022-04-28


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