Awesome Movie- the truth is told

I only see a lot of people needing a reality check. I simply can't see how this movie could make any kind of cohesive sense to any remotely rational individual. It had some quality acting and high production values but the script was just junk.

It doesn't take a personal vendetta with this Pavan Grover guy to conclude that. He did demonstrate that he has talent as an actor and I'd like to see him get parts in the future. I just think he needs to either give up on the writing end of things or make serious improvements.

Sure, in reality innocent people have been executed. This movie sure didn't seem very focused on this issue and it absolutely was not attempting any sort of honest portrayl of such an event.

And I just see someone who is writing poorly. :P

"God's not supposed to be a hack horror writer." - In The Mouth Of Madness

I saw this movie last night and while it __is__ gruesome, I think there's more to it than is readily available in the posts I've read so far. I don't think this is about the quality of death in the electric chair. I saw that as being there for shock value. To unnerve the audience, which it certainly accomplishes. And to show our own brutality in how _we_ "murder" (take the life of) men in the name of justice. With more than a nod to the fact that in our desire to affix blame, we convict and kill truly innocent people. Sometimes mistakenly. As was Caesar; as was Christ. I think the question is the one Jesse raises to Dina when she comes to examine him for the first time. The good/evil split in all of us and its origin. Jesse goes so far as to suggest that both are sides of God, a view I cannot support. He says something like "In the old testament, God caused a lot of destruction, killing many innocents. Isn't that evil? And aren't we made in God's image?" (Rough paraphrase.) That, I believe, is the crux of the movie.

Jesse was very attractive, sensual, even in his rage. You are drawn to him, to his plight as an abused young man, and we cannot miss that he only kills those with some sort of abusive past. (Though none is explained for the killing of the policewoman.) But that's the main tenet. Evil attracts us, even as it repels us. Do you question that? Consider the number of horror movies out today.
Most people, though not myself, flock to them. They are sure-fire box office hits. Personally, I don't want to be scared out of my wits, but I do like movies that have some psychological interest to them, which is how this movie was portrayed and is the reason I rented it.

In most movies, some suspension of disbelief is required. This movie asks for more than just a little of that. It is clear that Jesse feels deeply. More than most, I'd say. Both as a character and, most likely, in the person of Pavan Grover. This is Mr. Grover's attempt to reconcile good and evil by combining them in the person of Jesse. Vulnerable all the while he is the most devastating killer.

Most people wish for more power than we have. Jesse got to have that. ESP, mind control along with sheer physical might. Is he "the devil?" Certainly he is no
ordinary human. There are among us those who have the sort of power Jesse had.
While not the norm, they are there. They do exist. It is easier to accept in Superheroes. And we do. We accept that every time we sit down to watch any superhero movie (and we do watch...i.e. Spiderman, the Batman movies, etc.) And we come away wishing we could do those sorts of things. Pavan Grover asked that we allow his character to both possess and use these powers. And that we, somehow, see that he both _will not_ stop using them until he is destroyed, _and_ desires to be stopped. Thus, the character of Dina. Who, while more good than most, had, herself, a dark secret, which Jesse exposes. Jesse is forever bringing darkness to light.

Most interesting to me was that he had her kiss him, he kissed her and then had her kiss him before he died. Some desire for her own goodness to touch him before he sacrificed himself to her for death, which he did with arms spread as Christ had on the cross.

The evil in this movie was rampant. And not only in Jesse. In his father, the judge, the warden from the get-go (doesn't he make some comment about how in in "his world" of the prison, HE was God?), the guards who were brutal beyond belief, and in the taunting of Jesse in the electric chair chamber. This is not a movie for the faint of heart. And it is not on my top 10 list. But it _is_ an interesting look at power of all kinds, abuse of that power, and the hope of good to conquer evil. Before you dismiss it completely, perhaps consideration of these factors is in order.