Review of Fear X (2003) by Juan C — 25 May 2011
Refn's most underrated picture: bombed at the B.O., divided audiences and critics, forgot by everyone in the world, while Nolan's Memento has become a magnum opus, became a school for psychological thrillers.
The truth is Fear X put a much bigger burden onto our shoulders: there is no dialogue approx. 20 minutes, it's depressive, snowy, silent, blood-red and voices, my God, the voices. Breaks your skull: when Larry Smith shows Harry Caine's disturbed mind, with monsters in it, you'll be sick quickly.
John Turturro pulls of his role as a jedermann cannot racionalize his wife's death, a trauma which is as monstrous as it would be in real life. Not for everyone: silent vs. noisy, full with Lynch, Coppola or Altman hommages, creating an alienating sense of paranoia.
More or less, that's why it became a financial failure and ignored. And it will be ignored years later too.
This review of Fear X (2003) was written by Juan C on 25 May 2011.
Fear X has generally received mixed reviews.
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