07-26-2020, 11:01 AM
A sociopath with homicidal tendencies gets out of prison perhaps a wee bit soon and returns to the only thing he knows. In voice-over, he provides a rather chilling rationalization (informed by a really effed up childhood) of all that he does.
After the 9-hour-plus wallow through the unrelenting suffering of The Human Condition, the wholesale destruction of people's health (and near genocide of Aborigines) in That Sugar Film, the concentration camps and mass executions under Chilean dictator Pinochet's reign in Nostalgia for the Light, this is a refreshingly upbeat film. To think that a sociopath could be stopped at only a handful of murders is almost inconceivable in today's world, where the killing of a hundred thousand people by a sociopath is considered by many a resounding success.
This is director Gerald Kargl's only movie. The controversy surrounding it ended his career. The public and critics felt he was showing too much sympathy or even glorifying the killer. The same happened to Michael Powell back in 1960 when he released Peeping Tom, which essentially ended his brilliant career.
You know how, on the news, every time there's a killing, the reporter will say, "Right now, the question on everyone's mind in this community is, 'Why?'"
That's when I always grab the sledgehammer (kept close by) and smash the TV. I've gone through so many TVs that way. In fact, I've worn out three sledges.
Maybe if more people watched movies like Peeping Tom and Angst and tried to understand what they're saying, that news reporter would have to work a little harder in covering such stories.
Angst is ghastly and chilling, but brilliant. It works on so many levels. Gaspar Noe claims it deeply influenced his filmmaking style. He's seen it over 40 times.
Not really a DOOM recommendation, BTW. I'm admittedly beyond the pale at this point. But still, it has the cutest (and entirely clueless) wiener dog that steals every scene it's in. And I'll give one spoiler. No animals were harmed (fictitious or otherwise) in the making of this film.
After the 9-hour-plus wallow through the unrelenting suffering of The Human Condition, the wholesale destruction of people's health (and near genocide of Aborigines) in That Sugar Film, the concentration camps and mass executions under Chilean dictator Pinochet's reign in Nostalgia for the Light, this is a refreshingly upbeat film. To think that a sociopath could be stopped at only a handful of murders is almost inconceivable in today's world, where the killing of a hundred thousand people by a sociopath is considered by many a resounding success.
This is director Gerald Kargl's only movie. The controversy surrounding it ended his career. The public and critics felt he was showing too much sympathy or even glorifying the killer. The same happened to Michael Powell back in 1960 when he released Peeping Tom, which essentially ended his brilliant career.
You know how, on the news, every time there's a killing, the reporter will say, "Right now, the question on everyone's mind in this community is, 'Why?'"
That's when I always grab the sledgehammer (kept close by) and smash the TV. I've gone through so many TVs that way. In fact, I've worn out three sledges.
Maybe if more people watched movies like Peeping Tom and Angst and tried to understand what they're saying, that news reporter would have to work a little harder in covering such stories.
Angst is ghastly and chilling, but brilliant. It works on so many levels. Gaspar Noe claims it deeply influenced his filmmaking style. He's seen it over 40 times.
Not really a DOOM recommendation, BTW. I'm admittedly beyond the pale at this point. But still, it has the cutest (and entirely clueless) wiener dog that steals every scene it's in. And I'll give one spoiler. No animals were harmed (fictitious or otherwise) in the making of this film.
I'm nobody's pony.