Controversy over British director Winterbottom's violent new movie The Killer Inside Me
1/27/2010 12:09:00 AM
kenmouse
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British director Michael Winterbottom is at the centre of controversy over violence against women in a film starring Kate Hudson and Jessica Alba.
The movie, The Killer Inside Me, is based on a Jim Thompson novel about a baby-faced deputy sheriff of a small Texas town (played by a brilliant Casey Affleck) who has some sexual-psychological issues.
In the picture's most graphic scene, Affleck dons a pair of black leather gloves and repeatedly punches Alba's character in the face.
Winterbottom keeps his cameras running as Affleck lands blow after blow on Alba's face.
Later on someone comments that her face resembled a stew.
I turned away a couple of times because, to put it bluntly, I'm not a lover of excessive violence and I don't like watching violence against women.
I'm also a bit of a wuss. At the same time I love thrillers both on screen and on the page and I've never quite understood this contradiction about myself. There you go.
I've read Thompson's novel and, if anything, Thompson's prose is more graphic than how Winterbottom visualises such scenes on screen.
I think it's a terrific movie, but it's going to upset a lot of people.
The movie, The Killer Inside Me, is based on a Jim Thompson novel about a baby-faced deputy sheriff of a small Texas town (played by a brilliant Casey Affleck) who has some sexual-psychological issues.
In the picture's most graphic scene, Affleck dons a pair of black leather gloves and repeatedly punches Alba's character in the face.
Winterbottom keeps his cameras running as Affleck lands blow after blow on Alba's face.
Later on someone comments that her face resembled a stew.
I turned away a couple of times because, to put it bluntly, I'm not a lover of excessive violence and I don't like watching violence against women.
I'm also a bit of a wuss. At the same time I love thrillers both on screen and on the page and I've never quite understood this contradiction about myself. There you go.
I've read Thompson's novel and, if anything, Thompson's prose is more graphic than how Winterbottom visualises such scenes on screen.
I think it's a terrific movie, but it's going to upset a lot of people.
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