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 Barnes & Noble Robin Williams, essaying the latest in a series of dark characterizations, delivers his most bone-chilling performance to date in this superior thriller, a minor masterpiece of eerie mood and rising suspense. Williams portrays a lonely, obsessive one-hour photo clerk who has spent years living vicariously through an attractive suburban family whose pictures adorn his living-room wall. To him, the mother (Connie Neilson), father (Michael Vartan), and young son (newcomer Dylan Walsh), whose lives he monitors through the photos he processes for them, has always represented familial perfection. When sordid real-life events blur the idyllic images he has fixed in his mind, this unassuming but unbalanced man finally snaps. Writer-director Mark Romanek, previously known for his music videos, displays a strong Stanley Kubrick influence, not only in the emotional restraint and pacing of his sequences but also in the cinematography and production design. One Hour Photo has a dreamlike quality, particularly in those scenes taking place in the department store where Williams’s character works. But Romanek’s virtuoso visuals would have gone for naught had his star not invested his role with such creepy conviction: Williams pulls off a nearly impossible trick by making his dangerously psychotic photo clerk a reasonably sympathetic character. That, ultimately, is why the film succeeds -- and its why you’ll be drawn back to the movie again and again. Romanek and Williams provide a feature-length commentary for the DVD, which also sports several "making-of" featurettes. Ed Hulse Interested in the song lyrics? - Check out themostlyrics.com! Looking For A DVD? - Check out dvd-a-rama.com! |
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