I originally did a review for this movie years ago but decided to delete it for complicated reasons. I have finally decided to re-review it and add my new thoughts on it:
The actors/actresses are great, especially Sossamon and Van Der Beek. Secondary characters, or even bit roles (like Fred Savage----"I can FEEL MY DICK!"---LOL) are awesome.
Unknown Theresa Wayman (co-band player with Sossamon on her band) is simply stunning/remarkable in her brief, basically non-speaking scenes as Cafeteria Girl (named Mary in the book)---and her suicide scene is one of the most emotional, devastating, unforgettable moments in movie history you will ever see.
In a way, she is the heart of the movie. Not in every way, but in a way. The movie is really, to paraphrase the late Roger Ebert's long-ago review of this movie, a well made movie about reprehensible people. And who should wonder? Van Der Beek's character is the brother of THE Patrick Bateman (AMERICAN PSYCHO)!!.
Great score-----the introductory scenes featuring the Prelude to the opera AIDA are particularly effective.
The movie's special effects of people running backwards and time likewise running backwards is also masterful and unforgettable (and just plain cool).
Special mention must be made of Eric Stoltz in a brief but memorable role as the typical sleazy, pot-smoking, womanizing, Liberal Arts College Professor-----and of Faye Dunaway and Swoozie Kurtz, lending their experienced, artful hands as the drunken mothers of two-out-of-control, spoiled gay rich-brat sons (expertly played as well by Ian Somerhalder of Vampire Diaries fame and Russell Sams). Sams's character is especially memorable-----he refuses to be called Richard but only "DIIIIIIIIICCCCK." LOL.
The ending ends like the beginning.....cut off in mid-sentence.
The line Sossamon utters to Somerhalder at the end-----"It wouldn't have mattered to people like us," is unforgettable and haunting.
The music on the closing credits is superb----I especially liked "Stop!" by Erasure---played after the final scene.
A masterpiece---and future fodder for film theory and movie history professors to pore over. Plus, everything runs backwards!! What more do you want?
10 out of 10.
The actors/actresses are great, especially Sossamon and Van Der Beek. Secondary characters, or even bit roles (like Fred Savage----"I can FEEL MY DICK!"---LOL) are awesome.
Unknown Theresa Wayman (co-band player with Sossamon on her band) is simply stunning/remarkable in her brief, basically non-speaking scenes as Cafeteria Girl (named Mary in the book)---and her suicide scene is one of the most emotional, devastating, unforgettable moments in movie history you will ever see.
In a way, she is the heart of the movie. Not in every way, but in a way. The movie is really, to paraphrase the late Roger Ebert's long-ago review of this movie, a well made movie about reprehensible people. And who should wonder? Van Der Beek's character is the brother of THE Patrick Bateman (AMERICAN PSYCHO)!!.
Great score-----the introductory scenes featuring the Prelude to the opera AIDA are particularly effective.
The movie's special effects of people running backwards and time likewise running backwards is also masterful and unforgettable (and just plain cool).
Special mention must be made of Eric Stoltz in a brief but memorable role as the typical sleazy, pot-smoking, womanizing, Liberal Arts College Professor-----and of Faye Dunaway and Swoozie Kurtz, lending their experienced, artful hands as the drunken mothers of two-out-of-control, spoiled gay rich-brat sons (expertly played as well by Ian Somerhalder of Vampire Diaries fame and Russell Sams). Sams's character is especially memorable-----he refuses to be called Richard but only "DIIIIIIIIICCCCK." LOL.
The ending ends like the beginning.....cut off in mid-sentence.
The line Sossamon utters to Somerhalder at the end-----"It wouldn't have mattered to people like us," is unforgettable and haunting.
The music on the closing credits is superb----I especially liked "Stop!" by Erasure---played after the final scene.
A masterpiece---and future fodder for film theory and movie history professors to pore over. Plus, everything runs backwards!! What more do you want?
10 out of 10.
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