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Surveillance (2009)
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SURVEILLANCE a film review
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"Yes, it is rampant with cliche. Yes, it is diagrammed and choreographed and blue-printed to the brink of overstatement. Yes, the acting is campy and weirdly expectant. Yes, the climactic 'twist' is easily seen more than the proverbial mile away. Yet none of these glaring flaws (and I suppose they do glare quite a bit) manage to deter much from the ghastly fun that is Jennifer Chamber Lynch's Surveillance. And this is the same woman who gave us the catastrophically denounced Boxing Helena almost sixteen years ago. Isn't it? Well first, before going on, allow me the inevitability of bringing up some back story to flesh out our present story. The year is 1993 and Jennifer Lynch, daughter of surrealist auteur David Lynch, fresh off his Twin Peaks days (the younger Lynch was also involved in that project as the writer of the best-selling tie-in book, "The Diary of Laura Palmer") becomes a first time filmmaker with a psychological horror tale called Boxing Helena. The almost univers ... "
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"It’s been 15 years since Jennifer Lynch directed Boxing Helena, and the intervening years have seemingly cooled her directorial genes, because Surveillance is much easier to swallow, although the subject matter is still upsetting to the stomach. The film takes an interesting premise and manages it to cram it through a meat grinder until you’re left with something that you wouldn’t really want to eat in the first place. Rather than the commentary on surveillance that the film starts to establish in the beginning, you’re left with what feels like an homage to Natural Born Killers. Surveillance takes place inside three different interrogation rooms (actually meeting rooms and supply closets that have been appropriated for use) inside a very small town’s police station. Two FBI agents, Bill Pullman and Julia Ormond arrive on the scene following a brutal multiple homicide, and set up three video cameras inside the room to record separate eyewitness events. Most of the film is told in f ... "
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