MARC MY WORDS
Movie Review
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I begin this review with a warning. If you suffer from bad acid flashbacks, have
ever spent more than 5 seconds pondering whether you are really alive, or like
to go to movies stoned, skip this one.
For normal people it is disturbing.
For those on the razor’s edge of sanity, it makes “Sixth Sense” look
like a comic strip.
Martin Scorsese took the ever present angst which haunts
Leonardo DiCaprio and brought it to a boil under the pressure cooker lid of
disturbia. And let me tell you, it
didn’t help at all that I figured the whole movie out in the first five
minutes.
Forget the trailer, it’s a fraud. Scorsese left all of the mystery with the ad
men. As soon as the fog lifts on the
first scene, the audience knows exactly where this is headed, and Scorsese loves
it. He grabs you by the throat and
forces you to watch your own psyche be tortured for over two hours.
For film nuts like me it had the bare minimum of lighting
techniques and camera angles to keep me wondering where the genius in the movie
was. I never found it in the mechanics
of the flick.
For those enthralled by the suspension of disbelief created
by awe inspiring acting jobs, this one will let you down.
And for those of you who bought into the trailer and thought
this was going to be a suspense movie, fuhgetaboudit. The only suspense is wondering how much more
you can take before you begin to question your own sanity.
The story line is mysterious only to the extent that it
leaves out some details regarding the main character until the
very end. But figuring him out is not
essential to the movie at all. In fact,
a narrative of his plight would have done just as well for me as the graphic
depiction of his history.
All in all I’d say this one was a good enough flick to
recommend, but certainly not to those looking for a “feel good” movie. In fact, this one falls into the category of
a “feels weird” movie, which might send a lot of couples home to a fairly
restless nights sleep.
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