YET ANOTHER GREAT MOVIE...
I can gripe all I want about how much I don't like my position at work, but the one good thing that has come of it is the discovery of amazing film making that otherwise would go unnoticed. Case in point, a rare gem I found several months ago that was featured on one of our displays. This particular display picks different films each month from the Criterion Collection. This distribution company packages both foreign and domestic films from big studio releases to independent productions, from well-known, award-winning films to the obscure, but equally excellent finds. The film I discovered is Clean, Shaven. I cannot rave about this film enough. It tells the story of Peter Winter, a newly released schizophrenic, who is searching for his daughter. The film has absolutely mesmerizing performances by relatively unknown actors. Peter Greene, who portrays Peter Winter, is best-known as Zed from Pulp Fiction. His is performance is amazing and sadly overlooked. Equally great is the actress who plays his mother, shown as an exhausted, bitter, and crushed soul having dealt with his mental illness for so long.
As wonderful as the acting is, what makes this movie so incredible is the soundtrack. The director uses no music as background. Instead, the audience is subjected to the torment that is Peter's world: voices that may be from his past, maddening buzzing from power lines, and many other sounds that are unidentifiable, yet ever present. What these unnerving noises do is open your eyes to what it may be like to suffer from insanity. What this film did for me was open my eyes to the many people I have witnessed in my everyday life who, in my perfect little world, were just plain weird and somewhat scary. I now see that their world is more terrifying than I could ever comprehend.
Before I recommend this movie, I must warn this reader. This movie does not hold back. There are several extremely disturbing scenes. If you are at all faint at heart, think hard before watching this movie. I believe this is a very important film to watch, so turn your head if you have to. I did. That's why, despite it's brutal honesty, I am telling everyone about it. This movie needs to be watched.
As wonderful as the acting is, what makes this movie so incredible is the soundtrack. The director uses no music as background. Instead, the audience is subjected to the torment that is Peter's world: voices that may be from his past, maddening buzzing from power lines, and many other sounds that are unidentifiable, yet ever present. What these unnerving noises do is open your eyes to what it may be like to suffer from insanity. What this film did for me was open my eyes to the many people I have witnessed in my everyday life who, in my perfect little world, were just plain weird and somewhat scary. I now see that their world is more terrifying than I could ever comprehend.
Before I recommend this movie, I must warn this reader. This movie does not hold back. There are several extremely disturbing scenes. If you are at all faint at heart, think hard before watching this movie. I believe this is a very important film to watch, so turn your head if you have to. I did. That's why, despite it's brutal honesty, I am telling everyone about it. This movie needs to be watched.
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