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The Informers
A collection of intersecting short stories set in early 1980s Los Angeles, depicts a week in the lives of an assortment of socially alienated, mainly well-off characters who numb their sense of emptiness with casual sex, violence, and drugs.
Release : | 2008 |
Rating : | 4.9 |
Studio : | Senator Entertainment, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Production Design, |
Cast : | Billy Bob Thornton Kim Basinger Jon Foster Amber Heard Winona Ryder |
Genre : | Drama Thriller Crime |
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The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
This films was one of the worst films of the 00's from what I remember. I stumbled into it when I wanted to watch a movie at the theater and realized I had watched all the other ones out.
This meaningless film wallows in the sewer for its entire running time, then ends on an equally pointless and sour note. It's a bunch of dead end story threads about shallow, scum characters that don't engage the viewer on a single level. It's slips way past boring and into tedium watching these fools misbehave and talk gobbledygook about their drab, pathetic empty lives. The producers threw writer Nicholas Jarecki off the picture who was set to direct and replaced him with Gregor Jordan, who changed the script to suit his misdirected vision. Being fired from this production gave Jarecki's career a shot in the arm, when it freed him up to begin his directing effort Arbitrage, which is miles better than this garbage. Gregor Jordan on the other hand has moved on to straight to video and television productions, which is ample punishment for creating this soulless hack work.
You know, in the way it makes you feel.We've all felt ourselves tense up when watching Rocky punch the crap out of someone. And tear up when there's a dramatic farewell. Well films like The Informers make you feel numb as a way of experiencing the story you're watching. Then any wisp of real emotion is heightened to great significance.There are many films I believe have the same mood as The Informers:sex, lies and videotaperumble fish lost in translation Dancer in the dark(add more if you know any...)The Informers was interesting because every character was a turd, in one way or another and you were meant not to like them. Plus, the ending of the film comes as a tiny subtle shock to the numb feeling you've been letting wash over you for the last hour and a half. When I tried to tell the ending to a friend of mine who hadn't seen the film, they thought it was really sick.The film does deserve praise for the way it looks. The visuals and use of music make a believable but not garish 1980's.
One of the best examples of the shallowness and consumer obsessed 80s there is.No one is likable, no one is nice and everyone is self obsessed, We follow them as they self destruct in many ways. Performance as top notch from everyone involved. If you like American Psycho and Crash you will love this. Ellis has looked into the dark heart of the 80s and pulled out all that was bad there. From sex, drugs and violence to pedophiles and child porn.The end scene and the last line of the film very much sums up the end of the era of guilt free sex, drugs and excess.A thinking mans, intelligent film, not to be missed. XJ