Title: Does not make you sit up
Product review: I waited and waited to be drawn into this story. It didn't happen. I have sat entranced through MY DINNER WITH ANDRE, so I have an open and generous mind for a movie --- but Butcher Boy did not work for me. Some boyhood-surrealist themes work ---- CINEMA PARADISO-- but with those you know you are watching surrealism; Butcher Boy never establishes its genre.I also am uncomfortable with the movie's un-judged acceptance of a boy "hero" whose response to a father's brutality is to adore the father and glibly rechannel his true feelings into brutally murdering another woman --- hello? I thought we had dealt with this kind of neurotic evasion a long time ago. Nothing I saw in the movie suggests that Neil Jordan is conscious of what he's saying.
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