The is not a self-help post but a quick review of the film I saw last night. If you like gratuitous violence with no explanation or attempt at justification of how a person could be incited to perform such monstrous acts, this is the film for you. I am not such a person, and have difficulty comprehending what drives people to make films like this.
There is clearly an audience for this film out there – it was selected for this festival and the Sydney one after all – but to describe it as a thriller without mentioning the word horror does not give any clue to what is in store, and one reviewer actually refers to it as “a fun, satisfying and surprising thrill-ride”.
While celebrating all that is good about humanity and wonderful about our world, if we are going to look at the dark side too, let’s focus on the real life horror that is being perpetrated every day on a domestic and global level, with a view to understanding why and finding ways to address it. Many of the films I have seen in this festival and others have done that really successfully. As far as this film goes however, there is no room for such meaningless self-indulgence in cinema. In my opinion.
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