| RATING: | 80% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
Clever film about White masculine violence resulting from the violent nature of Western culture. Not only those who are raised in such a culture, not only those who are raised in more overtly physically or emotionally violent families than others but also the external victims of such cowardly aggression - here women and children - can also choose to be crippled by its negative affects.
The road to redemption is long and arduous and most often leads down dead ends like (born-again) Christianity and choosing not to bring children into the world in case they are similarly afflicted with the inability to share fulfilling relationships with others. Such people are always detached from living and so die without ever having really lived, in the first place.
Despite offering no real explanations for the origins of the emotional and physical violence shown, this is a genuinely scary movie about real-life monsters; featuring star turns from Nick NOLTE and James COBURN, albeit that they tend to overshadow the somewhat under-written female characters who become simply the wash in their wake. In this regard, the movie comes across as an example of the very thing it critiques: Gynophobic. Nevertheless, it is strongly reminiscent of The Killer Inside Me in its depiction and dissection of inappropriate male aggression and its inevitable consequences, if left - like a toothache - un-medicated.
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