Title: Quite simply pornographic
Product review: Does the filmaker have talent? Undoubtedly. Is the movie cleverly made? Yes. But would the world have been worse off without it? Not a chance."Based on true events" is a poor excuse. The problem isn't that the movie is violent. There are many very violent, very good movies. The problem is that the violence is for one purpose and one purpose only: to titillate the viewer. There's no attempt to understand it, no attempt to provide us with any insight, no genuine attempt to inform us, and not even any attempt to make us confront our own demons by getting us to identify with the killer.In the special features, the director admits as much. The goal of a movie like this, he said, is simply to scare daylights out of the viewer. Truth to tell, it didn't even do that for me. As I watched the last 40 minutes or so, I kept assuming that at some point there would actually be a point. No such luck, alas; no such luck.
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