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The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things
Under discussion:
The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things
(2006)
The good thing about sending a movie like
The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things
out to half a dozen Spout reviewers is that when they all think it’s a bad movie, you know you’ve got a bad movie. HairyLime is still probably trying to watch the movie a half hour at a time before he gives up caring about what happens to the characters. As BigJeffLebowski said, the film does “plumb the depths of depravity,” but it’s not clear what the message is. It struck Strangeframe the same way: “Why make this film?” If you are lucky enough to get the D
V
D in a jacket, the director Asia Argento explains. While we must always take writers’ and directors’ claim with a grain of salt, she says
The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things
is “a testament to the immutable and invincible bond of love between mother and child.” But that bond may better be described as inscrutable or unfathomable, for, as TheWorkingDead asks, Why does Sarah want this child?” In the first part of the movie, Sarah seems to be acting almost on a whim; in the last part, it makes no sense at all to drag a kid around in the cab of a truck while you’re trying to be a truck-stop prostitute. Because we don’t understand the characters, because we don’t know why and how they change, we are left with a series of depraved episodes. As TheWorkingDead said, “A film about child abuse shouldn’t be this dull.” It left me regretting that I watched it.
posted on Thursday, August 23, 2007 5:01 PM by
JimBell
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