Disadvantage(s) of working(2) at a video store:
1. Watching movies one would not pick out
2. Forgetting the movie one just watched because you are working
3. Judging a movie poorly because one is distracted by work
Starring the new Batman as "Trent Reznick" and Jennifer Jason Leigh as the "hooker with a heart of gold". Colonel Kurtz channeled by John Sharian. I ended up starting, restarting, backing up over and over. Damn customers. Oh wait. They are the reason I'm there. Hmm. Anyway, dark film we've seen before--but what haven't we? More a spectacular display of an actor's committment than the haunting psycho-drama it wanted to be, the film nevertheless demands viewing. The other bleak film that comes to mind is "Requiem for a Dream", though that film exceeded this one in many ways. Tone and camera reminded me of Cronenberg...right down to the viscera fascination. A better than average ride in the Funhouse called life..
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