tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4617238092352594216.post3169018519651138430..comments2024-03-07T22:03:34.235+01:00Comments on These Dry Bones: Desperately Searched: Andrew Kevin Walkerdante stackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13558284324516806633noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4617238092352594216.post-62530574428377174152014-03-15T22:57:10.666+01:002014-03-15T22:57:10.666+01:00Hi.
I saw the 8MM the other day and it shook me....Hi. <br /><br />I saw the 8MM the other day and it shook me. I watched 7 in 1997 and shooked me ok but I had to wait almost 15 years to watch 8MM. I felt from the beginning that this movie is, hmm, let s say, too disturbing (disturbing is the word mostly used in the IMDB reviews for this movie - 6,4!?). <br /><br />When the movie finished I was like thunderstruck. There are the two scenes that fit into the thriller - experience (the scene in the warehouse and the scene in the home of the Machine) but the un-easiness comes not from these scenes but from the sick, perverse world that the pen of Walker creates.<br /><br />I read that Scuhmacher literally destroyed the film and I can see why. Ok, this movie is good but you have to imagine how it would have been with Fincher as director. I mean, I waited the last scenes and believed that everything (sick) could be possible : for example, when Welles informs the wife of the millionaire that her husband was just a pervert, it wouldn t surprise me if the wife was into the "game" and just double-crossed Welles. Or - another example - I wasn t sure that Welles would manage to beat the Machine. U see Walker had almost out-foxed the "good" guys in 7, so I watched 8mm thinking that "the nature of evil is so insidious that it can twist not only the character of Welles but even the traditional happy (...) end" <br /><br />I don t know if there is any other so powerful script writer as Walker out there (who wrote the script of The Usual Suspects?) but I think that the real problem in the Schumacher film lies right there:<br /><br />Imagine a crime so hideous that it starts and ends in a film, that does not exist anywhere else. The only witnesses are the rich guy, the director, the executioner and the producer, all bound (not literally) by the hideousness of their act - an act worse than any other. Now imagine that a guy watches the film (Welles), investigates, finds and as he tries to uncover the bad guys the only proof of the act that he has is destroyed - not to mention that his Vigil is killed, the only silver line let s say, no Justice, no cops, no other self-righteous taxi drivers, no nothing! Welles all alone against the evil itself. Where s the poetic Justice?<br /><br />I mean if the whole idea is not Claustrophobia in itself, maybe the nature of evil, what else could it be? <br /><br />(As you rightly point out Spacey in 7 has at least the moral creadentials of a totally logical lunatic that can not cope with this kind of society. I would mention perhaps Keyser Soze from the Usual Suspects but the script writer does create more of a mind game not a study in the nature of evil).<br /><br />But the bad guys, what can you say about them? I mean, there are not only cold blood murderers but something more, something else, the script of Walker has something of a dostoevskian dystopia, something of the Russian s genious.<br /><br />You can not think of something more appropriate that to fall on your knees and pray I think, after this disturbing experience. So I tend to agree with your controversial claim : yes Lord works in mysterious ways and Walker seems to have walked His way.<br /><br />PS. I apologise for my bad english but I m not native speaker, I m Greek.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com