Uh, yeah.
Compulsion is so much better that this surrealist attempt at a true crime story. The acting was horrible, the direction worse. Don't waste your time with this one.
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Well... considering that Swoon isn't at all some attempt at a 'true crime story,' I'm not at all surprised you'd be disappointed.
Meanwhile, Compulsion the movie, despite some terrific acting from Dean Stockwell, is a travesty. If you're at all interested in that take, read the book--the film is an embarrassment next to it.
dose enyone even swoon in this movie
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I also disagree with the OP. I just watched both films. I had seen Swoon when it was first released (and now, again), and had never seen Compulsion. I enjoyed both films, though I think that Swoon is less fictionalized than Compulsion. They are simply completely different films about the same subject matter and are of their time.
Compulsion was great (love Fleischer). Dean Stockwell and Bradford Dillman (especially Dean Stockwell) were terrific. Correctly filmed in black & white! The last 1/4 of the film almost exclusively focuses on the Orson Welles Clarence Darrow-esque character and the modern day viewer might not realize that (with the different character names)that it was based on a true story...it is, in effect, an anti-capital punishment film.
Swoon was a masterpiece in my opinion. You had an unknown director cast 2 unknown leads and filmed (again, correctly) in black & white for a film released in the 1990s. I didn't find it surreal - I found it stylish. A b&w independent film with unknowns was never going to have the mass-appeal that it should.....but it is still a masterpiece. The inclusion of archival footage interspersed with the film was especially marvelous - to me.