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Four-star mark is for a mis-catching accent of teen-boy characters presenting an excellent story of the Catholic school high-grades, whose thirst for individual achievements and ring-leading is well-mixed with mutual attraction and pathologic urges.
They are not Hannibal] yet, but a sure young predators alike those of Grimm Love] adults surely.
Not so bad police/school thriller.
Rating:  -
The moment I laid eyes on Tom Sturridge my heart melted. This guy is too gorgeous to be true in a darkly mysterious way. His face and jet black hair were gorgeous in every shot of him in this film but to tell you the truth he is the only reason I watch this film. I cannot really follow this movie very well. It was a bit hard to pick up on and understand. Tom Sturridge's gorgeous face was the enlightenment of the whole film in my honest personal opinion. All I can understand is that he is supposed to be a sociopath obsessed with death and dissecting animals and that Eddie Redmayne did not like him. Then all of a sudden they are sort of clicking and killing by the end of the movie. Honestly this movie was totally confusing to comprehend. I did not understand the plot very well and the purpose of this film except that Tom's character had a bad influence on Eddie Redmayne's character by the end and the very ending scene makes you think Eddie was lying and actually was bad. I have no idea. I could watch this over and over and still not get it but I would watch it only for the sake of seeing gorgeous Tom Sturridge.
Rating:  -
I thought it was a really good movie. It isn't the type where you sit around and enjoy for leisure, but makes you question.
Rating: -
I've read many reviews on this movie where people did not understand the ending.
Personally, I don't think you were meant to understand the movie in one go, so if you are looking for a quick blood and fix, this isn't the movie for you. It's not going to happen. Sorry.
The two characters in this movie use various things that bond them together, Gestalt theory, the Knight Templars, Beckett, Cathars etc. You really have to follow along with the movie. It's not one where you can skip around and expect to understand.
Another thing that I think most people miss while they are watching, is that the veiwer is hearing the story from Alex's (Eddie Redmayne) point of veiw, and his point of view only. A 17 year old boy charged with murders...makes you wonder.
Watching this movie four times through now (I've had it about six months and I absolutely can't get enough of it) I noticed many things that I had not noticed the previous times.
There are also people talking about the flaws and improbabilty of it. Once again, I think those were meant to be there. It is an indeed flawed story, but once again, you are hearing the story from the voice of the accused.
It's fun to peice the movie together and come up with alternate endings. Whether or not it will ever be completely understood, is anyone's guess, and perhaps that was the way it was meant to be.
Rating:  -
The Director of this film said it started out as a documentary about the dynamics that come into play when two sociopaths join forces to produce one truly dangerous uber sociopath. As he went along though, he found that his material was better presented in the form of fiction.
I don't see how this film could ever have been a documentary. As one English schoolboy leads another into complicity, their rationales grow just too far-fetched and elaborate. They invoke texts from the ancient Knights Templar and their modern Masonic brethren. It's almost a sort of Da Vinci Code conspiracy theory that drives them. The viewer is even left with an implication that a Masonic conspiracy might actually be at work. This caroms the film off into extreme improbability. Homicidal duos such as Leopold and Loeb usually just operate under simpler principles of gang psychology, with two being emboldened to do what one alone wouldn't dare.
Also, the Director/Writer makes this an example of "Gestalt" psychology, where the whole becomes larger than the sum of the parts. The principles of Gestalt psychology though apply more to how an individual perceives his world, and aren't applicable here. So this principle is really just dragged in by the ear to lend a note of serious scholarship to the film.
However, the movie is well-acted and brilliantly photographed. Half of it was filmed on location in Yorkshire settings and it takes us into the still starched, ordered, and pervasively sadistic world of the English schoolboy. The Director said he didn't want to pin down the year of the movie's action, allowing it to be anywhere from the 1970s to the present. We see the actual interiors of places with Dickensian (or Harry Potter-like) names such as "Giggleswick." It's a visual feast.
You will also incidentally and painlessly learn some history from this film, as much as that history turns out to be irrelevant to most real-life psychological motivation. And the movie will probably impel you to look more closely at your standard deck of playing cards. Why is the jack holding a deadly spear? And who is that creeping up behind the King with a knife?
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