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An Underrated Masterpiece

posted 10 years ago by supadude2004
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As a most compellingly realistic portrayal of f@~ed up people, this movie is nothing less than a masterpiece. Not a shot is wasted, and had he not died at the end I would have honestly been longing for more. Yes, I didn't want this movie to end. As someone with ADD this gripped my attention at every single moment, and so very, very few movies can do that. Believe me, this could only have been a most unusually amazing movie to have held my appalling attention.

Having said that, what I am most sad about is the fact it's so under-appreciated: people don't get this movie. I get that. But, just as I get it, I find it hard to understand... why others don't!?

Its acting could not have been better, especially from both leads. Its score is masterly too - a highlight being the haunting, but ever so beautiful classical music set to a clubbing background - which was an incredible piece of production.

All I can say is: what an amazing job - you who made this great movie! I can only hope that one day, perhaps in some future version of this world, when far cleverer people walk this earth, that it will then be appreciated for the masterpiece that it so evidently is! Meanwhile, 5.x/10 is shockingly low for such a hauntingly special movie. Alas the reality will remain that this outstanding movie will blissfully pass by all the unthinking muppets of this world, who prefer to chew their popcorn while watching, for example, Harry Potter's inanity unfold. That's the true reason why this movie is destined to be forgotten - most just aren't smart enough to appreciate it for what it is.

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[–] neil_mc 10 years ago

This wasn't a bad film, I also don't think it's a masterpiece, some thoughts below to balance your adulation.

I didn't like the casting of the Kelly character, she wasn't engaging or particularly interesting and I couldn't immediately see what Victor saw in her. Maybe it was just the writing rather than the actress. Their conversations seemed awkward and badly improvised, in a first-date going badly kind of way.

Victor's enjoyment of strangulation got repetitive after the 3rd or 4th sex scene. Assuming that the relationship was purely sexual for Victor given that he probably hadn't had these experiences before with a woman, I get that they wanted to show these scenes, but there was some overkill.

I think Victor dying was telegraphed, it initially looked like her violent ex was going to be one to kill him, so I suppose it was a mild surprise that it wasn't him.

Also, the Liverpool accents in the film were terrible. The city of Liverpool had no real significance to the plot, so it could have been any nameless city setting with the actors able to use their natural accents rather than what they served up here.

"Please don't eat me! I have a wife and kids. Eat them!"

[–] turkeycat 10 years ago

Yes, I agree that some of the accents strayed away from where they should have been, although the script itself did seem to represent the Liverpool dialect fairly well.

[–] PoppyTransfusion 10 years ago

If I had not read the book I would not have been so disappointed. Even if I had not read the book I would have found the film superficial, for so it is. The changes to the characters, their lives and reactions waters them down to nothings. I found the film boring.

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