Let me say first of all I've enjoyed many a dark, dark noir over the years. However, I found this noir to be completely perverse and despicable with absolutely no redeeming value.
The characters are so incredibly vile, I was hoping they would all kill each other by the end of the film. In one of the opening scenes, you are offered a super close-up of Gina Gershon's genitalia as she opens her trailer home door. You know from that point on that Mary Poppins will not be appearing in this movie.
If taking complete sexual advantage of a severely mentally challenged young woman, brutal beatings, and forcing Gershon to commit a sexual act with a piece of KFC chicken is your thing then be my guest.
The director William Friedkin, made one of the greatest movie in film history in "The Exorcist". Now, in his seventies, I imagine he thinks I'll just "punk" the viewing audience. Along with writer Tracy Letts, they don't even have the "guts" to give you an appropriate ending to what has been taking place. Even that is a huge cop-out.
The characters are so incredibly vile, I was hoping they would all kill each other by the end of the film. In one of the opening scenes, you are offered a super close-up of Gina Gershon's genitalia as she opens her trailer home door. You know from that point on that Mary Poppins will not be appearing in this movie.
If taking complete sexual advantage of a severely mentally challenged young woman, brutal beatings, and forcing Gershon to commit a sexual act with a piece of KFC chicken is your thing then be my guest.
The director William Friedkin, made one of the greatest movie in film history in "The Exorcist". Now, in his seventies, I imagine he thinks I'll just "punk" the viewing audience. Along with writer Tracy Letts, they don't even have the "guts" to give you an appropriate ending to what has been taking place. Even that is a huge cop-out.