Controversial legal procedure They're not Legion, of course. One Nefarius is enough for Edward Wayne Brady to commit several murders and find himself alone with Dr. James Martin, an atheist psychiatrist who will decide the question of Edward’s sanity at the crossroads of fate with the guiding pole “electric chair – treatment”. Dissociative disorder, all these alter-personalities or...
What scares them? What a carpenter can build, but the film is not about that.
What are they happy about? Nefarius rejoices when James says he will decide how he lives.
What makes them excited? What's shown in the countdown scene. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Pleasure permeates the whole being of Nefarius. The triumph. It's like another ball in the opponent's goal, and one of your backers made an assist. And the brainless opponent scored in his goal.
What amuses them? For me, the movie is about that. Words. Smart words. Sometimes in Latin. They come out of the Nefarius being, from Edward’s mouth, bounce off the walls of a poorly lit prison cell (where did the expression “chamber movie” come from?), penetrate James’ head and sometimes fly out through the other ear, sometimes get stuck somewhere between professional and personal, and the personal reacts with stress, bewilderment, anger. Yes, the film is about this – “the association of professional and personal, or in what words the murky alter-personality of the interlocutor can get to your gut.” The professional wants to know the truth - that's why he came here. It is based on its words: “freedom”, “literacy”, “tolerance”, “pluralism”, “dissociative disorder”, “evil is a social construct”, “euthanasia”. Nefarius laughs – fig leaflets of professional words quickly end, and smart words are still very much, and they are heavy as arrows. The professional already sees the truth. The personal swells, rushes in the cage like the condemned, absorbs arrows again and again. I pay tribute to James, he was extremely good.
A sample of 11 reviews by critics. Two positive, one cold neutral, eight sharply negative. The latter are sprinkled with James’ professional words: “manipulative garbage”, “cultural war against the freethinker”, “intolerant and destructive despotism”, “insensitive right-wing views”. And, of course, "controversial medical procedures." If someone moves and you do something with words or actions that will no longer move, it is called murder. It's easy. Not funny for Nefarius is "termination of pregnancy," not "controversial medical procedures." It's murder. Not horror, not thriller. A movie about the right words. There were only four of them here.
7 out of 10
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