08-17-2009, 09:23 PM
Clean, Shaven directed by Lodge Kerrigan (1997)
Let me finally break the pattern of how I've described many recent movies.
Of the movies I've ever seen, this was the most depressing.
There. The wording is slightly different. It's the best I can do, considering.
After getting out of an institution, a schizophrenic (named Peter) tries to track down his little daughter, who is now with an anonymous adoptive mother. The directorial style puts the viewer very much in Peter's mind. He perceives a fractured world full of hostility and paranoia. Every little utterance and incident becomes a major threat, and he reacts in bizarre ways. Well done, but a relentlessly grim downer of a trip, lemme tell ya, from beginning to end, with maybe one minor surprise (not worth writing home to your alter ego about) which itself is even more depressing, before the uber-depressing final denouement. A tour de force of ugly unpleasantness that won some awards but made me want to fracture my TV screen with an army boot -- had I been able to lift my spirits enough to do so.
Let me finally break the pattern of how I've described many recent movies.
Of the movies I've ever seen, this was the most depressing.
There. The wording is slightly different. It's the best I can do, considering.
After getting out of an institution, a schizophrenic (named Peter) tries to track down his little daughter, who is now with an anonymous adoptive mother. The directorial style puts the viewer very much in Peter's mind. He perceives a fractured world full of hostility and paranoia. Every little utterance and incident becomes a major threat, and he reacts in bizarre ways. Well done, but a relentlessly grim downer of a trip, lemme tell ya, from beginning to end, with maybe one minor surprise (not worth writing home to your alter ego about) which itself is even more depressing, before the uber-depressing final denouement. A tour de force of ugly unpleasantness that won some awards but made me want to fracture my TV screen with an army boot -- had I been able to lift my spirits enough to do so.