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I saw this movie on DVD a few days ago, and I'm feeling confused, especially when I read so many good IMDb reviews about it.
I won't bother everyone talking about the permanent cheesy synthesizer's music, so fashionable during the eighties as well as I won't complain about the bad pieces of dialog and acting, except for Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, who passed away a few months ago - rest in peace Bernard-Pierre. Those are flaws you can see on many small –or even big- budget movies.
No, actually I had a problem with buying the whole thing, even if I happen to believe I'm some kind of a good viewer - a movie can take me wherever it wants to; it's very easy to hypnotize me.
But I couldn't buy the idea of a lonely dude haunting almost every day the same highway gas station, looking for opportunities to abduct women (we know he goes there every day for his wife asks him about the significant number of kilometers rising daily on the car counter) without being noticed or pushed out.
I couldn't buy this absurd abduction sequence where a silly young woman jumps into Donnadieu's car, and gets neutralized by chloroform .in front of everybody.
I couldn't buy Donnadieu's tedious and vague explanations about his own behavior (something like: are you a true hero, if you prove you're able to do evil Or something like that, I didn't really get it, and where does that come from anyway? Some 19th century psychiatric garbage?)
And to top it all, I couldn't buy the idea of a main character drinking a cup of drugged coffee *while being aware of it being drugged* because he wants to "know about everything and feel everything" concerning his girlfriend abduction, cup of coffee offered by the man who planned and operated the abduction! Come on man, go and find the cops! You've gathered enough information at this time for them to re-open the case and start to dig stuff up on Donnadieu's backyard!
And there's a couple more I'm too lazy to write about, but you got my drift, I guess.
To work as a good movie, I think a thriller has to follow up its own mechanic and logic, a bit like a swiss clock Even if it tells a crazy or insane story, it will work just as long as it sticks to its inner rules.
No logic and coherence in this one, I'm afraid.
I saw this movie on DVD a few days ago, and I'm feeling confused, especially when I read so many good IMDb reviews about it.
I won't bother everyone talking about the permanent cheesy synthesizer's music, so fashionable during the eighties as well as I won't complain about the bad pieces of dialog and acting, except for Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, who passed away a few months ago - rest in peace Bernard-Pierre. Those are flaws you can see on many small –or even big- budget movies.
No, actually I had a problem with buying the whole thing, even if I happen to believe I'm some kind of a good viewer - a movie can take me wherever it wants to; it's very easy to hypnotize me.
But I couldn't buy the idea of a lonely dude haunting almost every day the same highway gas station, looking for opportunities to abduct women (we know he goes there every day for his wife asks him about the significant number of kilometers rising daily on the car counter) without being noticed or pushed out.
I couldn't buy this absurd abduction sequence where a silly young woman jumps into Donnadieu's car, and gets neutralized by chloroform .in front of everybody.
I couldn't buy Donnadieu's tedious and vague explanations about his own behavior (something like: are you a true hero, if you prove you're able to do evil Or something like that, I didn't really get it, and where does that come from anyway? Some 19th century psychiatric garbage?)
And to top it all, I couldn't buy the idea of a main character drinking a cup of drugged coffee *while being aware of it being drugged* because he wants to "know about everything and feel everything" concerning his girlfriend abduction, cup of coffee offered by the man who planned and operated the abduction! Come on man, go and find the cops! You've gathered enough information at this time for them to re-open the case and start to dig stuff up on Donnadieu's backyard!
And there's a couple more I'm too lazy to write about, but you got my drift, I guess.
To work as a good movie, I think a thriller has to follow up its own mechanic and logic, a bit like a swiss clock Even if it tells a crazy or insane story, it will work just as long as it sticks to its inner rules.
No logic and coherence in this one, I'm afraid.