A dark picture creates an atmosphere of anxiety. The hero of Tim Roth, possessing a phenomenal IQ, but at the same time a drunk and epileptic, despises people, hates his parents and the “secular” party in which the father-banker forces him to spin. He is drawn to the bottom of the city, where he seeks out the undisguised manifestations of man. Is he a criminal, or just an unhappy and embittered person who finds life washed away in hooliganism and misanthropy?
The police are also not trusted by the viewer. Junior Edward immediately turns out to be a gambler in debt to the mafia. But decent at first glance detective Braxton has great psychological and personal problems, sometimes turning him into an angry sadist.
Interrogations are increasingly like a duel, and the lie detector becomes an instrument of a duel, the outcome of which the viewer can hardly predict. The experience of detectives against the extraordinary intelligence of the suspect - the chances are almost equal.
Bottom line: if you like noir crime films, consisting of misanthropy and hopelessness a little more than completely, or you like intellectual psychological thrillers-detectives - this film will be a great choice.
9 out of 10
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