SardonicNihilist said:
I don't think he could be absolutely sure in his bewildered state, and in any case that really wasn't the point, I thought- ie. what drugs he was sedated with. I quite liked this film for many reasons, and remain indifferent to Kiefer Sutherland showing his face. I was just wondering that did anyone, at any point, feel sympathy for the guy in the phone booth? I mean, other than the slain pizza delivery guy, there really are no innocent victims in this film. I don't really have any problem with the tactics used by the "villain" (Kiefer), as the protagonist was quite an unlikeable character, and in my opinion, he deserved it.
Umm...I don't know; I don't think somebody deserves to
die because he cheats on his wife and lies to the people around him....he certainly had something coming to him, but I don't think it was death....
It takes me forever to see movies, seriously...I only saw this on dvd yesterday. I really liked it though. I wouldn't classify it as the best film I've ever seen or anything, but it kept my attention for the whole way through. And I did sympathise with Stu, because as he said himself--there are a lot greater evils in the world than what he was doing, he was just unlucky for having been chosen by the shooter.
It makes the same point that
SAW did too, but makes that point a lot better IMO. Nobody's perfect, but as a culture we've come to embrace greed and self-centredness as positive attributes. Stu was where he was in life
because he was so good at fucking people around. All the time characters in the film were trying to help him, we never once saw anybody other than the shooter actually condemn his behaviour. I wouldn't expect them to do it to his face given the circumstances, but it's kind of interesting that nobody was seen whispering amongst themselves about what an asshole he was after he made his big speech. It was like nobody could conceive that he should have to pay for having used so many people, because in the world in which we live, that's not really so big a crime.
I also liked the split screen technique used to show multiple things happening simultaneously. I think it was used a lot better in this film than I've seen in others.
Oh, and Colin Farrell is hot. When you have to spend the majority of a movie looking at one person, that kind of helps.
