Film: Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

[trancedeviate]

I just saw this a few weeks ago and loved it. Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke, it features a non-linear plot like 21 grams, and is about two guys who decide to rob a jewlery store... owned by their own parents.

Anyone else seen it?

 

[ccm]

I am dying to se it, even more now that you say it is a good one. LOVE P.S.Hoffman. He is a genius.

 

[flat line]

Interesting film that does not follow much of a typical hollywood model. Nice character development and a very nicely written story.

Hoffman is an extremely underrated actor.

 

[ccm]

Hoffman was AWESOME in Red Dragon. And The Talented Mr. Ripley. And The Savages. And everything he has ever been in. I would do him before I would do Brad Pitt. The Hoff Man is much more interesting.

 

[wanderlust]

film: before the devil knows youre dead

*add poll

 

[junctionalfunkie]

Good flick. Marisa Tomei looks incredible.


Spoiler question below.

NSFW:

In the scene where Andy (Philip Syemour-Hoffman) is under the influemce of heroin at the drug dealer's condo, he is babbling about his "being incomplete" or "not adding up." What is the purpose of this scene? Normally, a character taking heroin would be an immediate cue that 'this is a bad person' or whatever. But the scene seems to have the opposite effect; the viewer probabaly already sees Andy as a scumbag, for robbing his parents' jewelry store, and his self-analysis renders him, if anything, as more sympathetic, not less.

Thoughts?

 

[ccm]

I think they were just trying to illustrate why he was able to make the cold callous decision to rob his own folks. It also serves to underscore his desperation. IMO.

 

[alasdairm]

i watched this quite recently - i really enjoyed it even though it had me sat on the edge of my sofa squirming in discomfort for the entire duration of the movie.

alasdair

 

[thugpassion]

This movie has some fucked up plot lines, but you get to see alot of Marisa Tomai's tits .

 

[L2R]

when i saw the post in the theatre when it was out, it looked like a lame teeny slasher. a mate recommended it and it's friggin great. tense, solid ride from start to finish. kinda looked like an american "cassandra's dream".

4.5/5 (voted 4)

i don't like the title

 

[DexterMeth]

I saw this last summer, but I don't honestly remember a lot of it since I was way too into BDO at the time. I didn't pass out of anything, and I remember thinking it had a great plot, with all those twists and turns. Thanks for posting this, I'm going to watch it again sometime soon. Seymor Hoffman is a fricken dimented genious in it, pretty much as always. Anyone see that movie where his wife dies and he becomes addicted to inhaling gasoline?

 

[JoeTheStoner]

yah, movie is dope as fuck. i love what a fuck up hoffman is in this movie and the drastic measures he takes.

Seymor Hoffman is a fricken dimented genious in it, pretty much as always. Anyone see that movie where his wife dies and he becomes addicted to inhaling gasoline?

i haven't seen this movie u speak of, but i must say reading that... i am intrigued.