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I liked it a lot

posted 19 years ago by Flatbread
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Not sure exactly what this film is about, but I still enjoyed it a lot and portions of it have stayed with me very vividly ever since I watched it. I didn't mind being unsure of how to interpret it because the atmosphere was so haunting and thick with dread, the visual style was so excitingly different, and the film worked so well as a character study - a journey into a tormented mind - that I wasn't bothered by any of its shortcomings as a whodunit. The music was very eerie and dreamlike, I can still hear echoes of it in my head months later. The always excellent John Turturro gave a wrenching, quietly powerful lead performance in the best role he's had for years, and James Remar and Deborah Kara Unger were good too. I watched it one night when I was sober and was very impressed by it, I watched the DVD again the next night when I was very drunk and it seemed even better, beautifully trippy and surreal, but I fell asleep on the couch before it was over.

[–] user-5229 19 years ago

heh. Its kind of like your looking at the glass half full.... only in this case its just empty, so your like "what a pretty cup" instead. I like it. I admit at first I was really mad when I didn't understand the ending, and couldnt even find a good explaination for it online, but now im completely with you on that one. It was good. seemed kinda pointless, but it was creepy enough to be good anyways. i liked it.

oh yeah and yay this is my first post on imdb...I don't usually ever say anything on these things but I did only because I saw nobody agreeing with you here and thought I might be the only person who would. So what the heck...

[–] damageeffect 19 years ago

i dug it. great performances all around. i think it was very inspired by david lynch. lots of holes in the plot done to give the viewer a snapshot of the troubled mind that is john turturro's character. some things aren't meant to be understood fully, especially from such a tortured perspective.

[–] TwoFourFixate 18 years ago

Twenty minutes in to watching this film, and I knew I was watching greatness.

An hour later, I was watching the first masterpiece I've seen in a while.

I love everything about this film--the acting, the lighting, the mood, the music--the director showing what a true artist can do. I was totally drawn in to the world of these people. And I loved that I didn't know what was going to happen next--or that I might not understand it.

The director knows exactly what he is doing.

As far as the director having said that he did not know what the ending of the film should be, I have not seen the interview or written source from which this came, but even if it is true, I think it adds even more intrigue to this great work of art.

[–] smack1 18 years ago

I really enjoyed it too. The atmosphere was amazing, the acting was fantastic and I liked the ending. People seem to be complaining a lot here about several aspects but it's not a regular thriller, there's element's of Lynch and Kubrick here and the film shouldn't be taken too seriously.

[–] brainpig 18 years ago

Wow, I will rent this soon..

http://www.metacritic.com/video/titles/fearx?q=Fear%20X

[–] Flatbread 18 years ago

It's great to see that there are a few others out there who agree with me. Such a haunting and entrancing movie, well worth watching.

[–] high_diver_666 18 years ago

Me and my wife have filled almost all the voids in this epic, some we fabricated and speculated on but hey, whats wrong with that?
I equate it to music, sure you know the lyrics of the song, but do you know "who/what/where" the singer is talking about? NO, you relate it to someone/something/somewhere in your life, get it? Fabrication to fit what YOU want it to be, because the music sounds good and it makes sense to you..

[–] Crispin_Dry 18 years ago

Odd film, but cool.