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Title: The ceremony of innocence is drowned
Review: A chilling exploration of the individual hells we create for ourselves and each other. The director's hand is masterful as he slowly reveals the precise logic behind a serial killer's choice of victims. This is so subtly done that you are seduced into subconscious agreement with these choices - the victims are guilty "as charged" - or perceived. Until the two penultimate victims are chosen...Script, casting, production values and music are all perfect for this gut-punch of a movie. Freeman in particular is wrenching in his portrayal of an honest, intelligent Everyman failing to contain the agony and dread and horror of living in an urban inferno - but ultimately shouldering the burden yet again and soldiering on, failure or no.A flawless exposé of what lies at the heart of our modern disease; the eighth, deadliest sin: lack of compassion.
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