Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Non-reporting Probation

Edmond or of fear and desire

Marzia Apice

Edmond Burke is a respectable man middle-aged, with a good job, a house, a wife, but most importantly, a life that does not belong.
One day, as if just awakened from a long sleep fifty years, he realizes that his life is not like it, in fact, no one has ever liked. He does not want more endure anything, want to take what they want without being satisfied most of the banality of everyday life. He needs to give voice to the true self.
then opens eyes to the world: he leaves his wife and home, es'immerge in the streets of their city. During his first night as a man "free" discover things they had never paid attention. On her skin knows the world of prostitution of girls become sad and disillusioned, ready to do anything for money, pimps and violent and unscrupulous.
undergoes attack by two shady characters who steal. Left without money, bought a knife after having committed a ring and is threatened by a second attack.
Then, filled with a new awareness of beliefs and unknown until now, has a sexual encounter with a young waitress. In the midst of a discussion paradoxical, unexpectedly, a tragedy strikes: Edmond is moved by a deep anger, a hatred that is brutal to make a gesture which can never repair.
But a strong hallucinatory madness and a new courage delusional, believed to be invincible and, inevitably, in the right. Arrested and imprisoned, there really begins the second life of Edmond. Will be a long, painful, self-destructive that led him to discover that "when we fear something unconsciously want, whether it be death or thieves" because "Behind every fear hides a wish".
This is the plot of "Edmond," the new film by Stuart Gordon, based on the play by David Mamet.
interesting project, but the mix can not fully cinema-theater. The film is slow, the beat goes in fits and starts.
If it were not for the excellent soundtrack and the extraordinary talent of the protagonist William H. Macy, here engaged in one of his best performances, it would be difficult to see.

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