Overrated
This one actually is overrated. It puts me to sleep every time I try to watch it.
shareIf it's that bad why do you keep watching it?
shareA good, honest question.
There are some movies that get so much praise, if I don't like them the first time I watch them, I assume I must be missing something. MANY of my friends insist this movie is brilliant, so I have operated under the assumption I just don't "get" the genius of it. In the process of trying to enlighten myself, I keep falling asleep when I re-watch the movie.
I have given up on my ability to see the genius at this point and will only watch it from here on if I'm having insomnia.
I've never seen it. But the description sounds very offputting.
I mean, some creep teaches another creep how to be a serial killer? I understand there could be a dark subject here which might need exploration. But I suspect it's just sensationalism and glorification of evil.
It's not too different from the original Maniac! and Don't Go in the House and Don't Answer the Phone and a dozen other 'examinations' of psychopaths from the early 1980s, aside from the fact that it tries to eliminate any illusions of cinema (which the previous movies never quite succeeded at). I suppose there's justification for making a hyper-realistic movie about serial killers, but you may be correct in assuming, underneath the veneer of social criticism, it may just be glorification of evil.
shareWell from the description it sounds like some "normal" guy comes under the influence of some evil manipulator. So it's putting the viewer in the place of this "everyman". But again, I haven't seen it. I just find the whole concept repulsive.
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