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Title: Updated Narrator Uses a Video Camera but Lacks Some Existential Angst
Review: This film version is an interesting update of the written story and would be good as a contrast/discussion point to Dostoyevsky's orginal written version. The narrator in the film lacks the urgent and powerful sense of alienation and angst that the literary narrator struggles with; however, the film narrator confronts his inner desperation in later scenes with other characters, although at some times he falls to just being an angry young man; in that sense, the film is uneven. However, it is interesting and somewhat logical for the director to choose to have him self-record and self-confess to the camera to reach a modern, visual audience.
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