Review of Suture (1993) by Frances H — 05 Sep 2013

Although visually interesting in the filming style of an old Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode, the plot and length should have followed that series' conventions. The movie dragged on and on to feature film length and the twist of nobody recognizing that the two men were very different, not only of two different races, but very different size and body types was belabored to the point of ridiculousness.

The screenwriter and director just brat this point to death in the dialogue--the idea of these very opposite men being so similar that nobody knows the truth of the switch of Clay for Vincent. The ink blots with identically opposite sides, Vincent's birthday making his zodiac sign a Gemini, Clay only wearing all white clothes just like Vincent's after he takes Vincent's place, Mrs.

Lucerne saying that even though her birds look Identical, she could still always tell them apart, the fact that one of the birds is dead, all of the stark white in Vincent's houses just too much. The issue is bludgeoned into us.

And then we never do find out what Alice Jameson's relationship is to Vincent and his father.The one unusual point is hammered into us ad nauseum, while the end is no surprise. The visual style and one discrepancy from reality is just not enough to sustain a feature length film.