Or, as I now call it…‘Women making poor choices’.
I dropped this little gem in my Netflix queue a long time ago and largely forgot about it. Probably heard about it here as many of my queue films come from here.
What the hell was that all about? Meg Ryan’s character is some sort of scary screwed up. And while that might well be worth making a movie about it’s not even a sympathetic screwed up.
Why is she screwed up? Who knows? Maybe I missed something.
Her sister? Also screwed up. Why? Who knows? Maybe I missed something.
And when she becomes involved in a serial killers little rampages? She stays put. Why? Because she’s screwed up.
When she suspects her boyfriend (a new one), who is a cop (the detective working on the murders) is the killer? Does she suggest this? Does she run? No, she has sex with him.
Not to mention the creepy stalker (played convincingly by Kevin Bacon, I believe) following her around. He stalks her. Does she go to the cops? No. He comes into her house and she finds him asleep in her bed. Does she wig out and call the cops? No. She suspects he might be the murderer. Does she even MENTION this? Not that I saw.
She’s a teacher. High school…college…I dunno. College, I think. One of her students is obsessed with John Wayne Gacy and even submits a paper on him decorated with bloodstains. Great. Does she report this? No. Why? Who knows. At this point I’m thinking, ‘maybe she’s just stupid’.
Christ almighty…this woman doesn’t deserve to live.
Oh, and when one accidently walks in on someone in the basement of a bar getting head? Should one stare while hiding in the shadows? I’d say ‘no’, myself. Perhaps a quiet ‘Oops. Pardon me. Carry on.’ would be appropriate.
And, on a stylistic note…
Is it REALLY necessary to have long…steamy…establishing shots everytime a scene begins. Hello…it’s NYC! We believe you! I swear this movie could have been 1/2 hour shorter without all those. I’m sure it was all nicely done but after a while I got so obsessed with how stupid Meg Ryan’s character was acting that it gave me a negative impact of the rest of the film, too.
All that being said, I probably put it in my quete because hell, it had Meg Ryan and was unrated. Put those two things together and I know my interest in piqued!
Foolish me.