"L'Humanite:" Not to beat a dead

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horse, or movie, but... the biggest problem with the film is that a character so obviously neurotic, thick, and slow would be a Superintendent of Police. Trust me, he wouldn't. He might not even be a bus driver: who'd trust such a depressed, catatonic creature with kids' lives?
I especially laughed at the way the director showed the "investigation" moving along. Right. No urgency. Kids get raped and murdered every day. No overtime for our super. No visible police work hardly at all.
At this point, we know that the director has zero interest in the murder: it's a conceit to draw us into an otherwise vapid testimonial to boredom in a small town. He should have had the balls to tell it like that. As it it, making the "hero" a cop shot this film in the head before it got out of bed.
(Schotte may have won a Cannes award and so the actress but... I'm not influenced by all that, I like what I like.)
The films' directors (let's throw in The Son's director) seem to feel that having an actor absolutely do nothing is "acting" and "realistic."
It isn't. Also, putting in lots of ugly, fat actors surrounding the lead make for even more "realism?" Have repeated close-ups of the sweaty collars, yeah! That's realism!
Of course, some feel Cage's work wherein there are three or four minutes of silence is music...

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Topic - "L'Humanite:" Not to beat a dead - tinear 07:21:20 08/02/06 (0)

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