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Posted: 8/30/08 at 1:25pm
Some friends put on the DVD of this recently and I sat back and prepared to watch it thinking it was going to be another who-gets-shot-next blood and gore fest. How wrong my pre-conceptions were! I was rather amazed on a number of levels. A black comedy, a commentary upon society’s adaptation to mass-media, a challenge to the assumption that the ordinary person will take the side of the police and a strong and determined gay man (albeit channelling those characteristics in the wrong direction) portrayed in an age when I thought we were all supposed to be weak, insipid and incapable.
And virtually nothing for the gore-bores. I was well-impressed.
The film was also interesting for the routes it could have taken but didn’t. Why did Sonny love Leon so much that he’d even be prepared to attempt a bank robbery, particularly when that love wasn’t reciprocated? Or the nature of his relationship with his “car crash” parents.
And virtually nothing for the gore-bores. I was well-impressed.
The film was also interesting for the routes it could have taken but didn’t. Why did Sonny love Leon so much that he’d even be prepared to attempt a bank robbery, particularly when that love wasn’t reciprocated? Or the nature of his relationship with his “car crash” parents.
