2012 Directed by Charles de Lauzirika
Aiden craves a better life. A life away from his gruesome job as a crime scene photographer, working alongside his detective friend Pete. A meaningful life where he can escape the hard streets of Detroit, fall in love with the perfect woman and save the world from evil. As Aiden's dark imagination starts to leak into reality, he meets Virginia, a younger woman with her own dilemmas and desires.
Lately, I've started what I like to do when I enter the Letterboxd site: check out dozens of lists made by other users to find new movies to see and thus to learn about proposals that I did not know and among all of them I have found Crave and from the moment I saw the poster and read the synopsis I wanted to look for it on the web at all costs.
Our protagonist is Aiden, a freelance photographer who deals with the chronicle of all kinds of events. Struggling to pay his bills, he also often accepts assignments at children's birthday parties. Although he is a decent guy, he has fantasies riddled with sexual and very violent images.…
In 2013 I watched 1,418 movies. Through March 2014 I was right on that record pace...and then April got here. Then the wife decided she wanted us to move.....home inspections, our realtor to do list, wife honey do list, remodeling a bathroom the list goes on and on. I tried to explain to my wife that I watch and review movies....I do not have the time to remodel the entire house....I have to do Letterboxd, CogersonMovieScore.com, Twitter, Facebook and Stumble Upon. For some reason she does not seem to care about me keeping pace with the 2013 record...I just do not understand. Well I did managed to squeeze one movie in today.
Crave is one strange movie....a cross between Walter…
Not bad at all, in fact it had potential to be quite great. It didn't actually reach these peaks but still still solid work.
It's a psychological thriller about a socially awkward photographer that keeps his daily frustrations and annoyances bottled up on the inside and spend alot of his time day-dreaming. Dreams that often entails a sexual or violent nature.
I found it to be fairly relatable for the more part.
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Crave is quite the ho-hum affair - I liked it and hated it at the same time. It is essentially an everymans version of Taxi Driver. Instead of having a full-on deranged psycho like Travis Bickle, we get Aiden - an individual who just hates criminals and just so happens to be suffering some kind of illness. He isn't a bad guy, not like Bickle, he is just disturbed and upset with the world. His outputs also aren't bad, they come from an ok place, hence he is an everyman.
But the film gets lost up its own ass far too often. The script is shoddy at best - it is overlong, overcomplicated,…
Big time film buff am I, Charles de Lauzirika has long been one of my heroes. His extensive behind-the-scenes documentaries produced for a multitude of DVD and Blu-ray releases for some amazing films have always been essential viewing. He makes his feature directorial debut with the harrowing, character-driven thriller CRAVE, from a script he co-wrote with Robert Lawton.
The story centers around Aiden (Josh Lawson), a lonely crime scene photographer living in a depressive area of Detroit. His only friend is the veteran police detective Pete (Ron Perlman). Every day, Aiden bears witness to the aftermath of injustice and fantasizes about taking heroic action to violently punish those who would do great harm to others. In spite of his deteriorating…
Continuing to muddle through the first ever Craptacular Compilations I have come to the very last movie on disc one. Crave. A movie that I can for sure say is the best one on the first disc, which still doesn't say very much about its quality anyway.
Crave is a slower burning thriller about a crime scene/amateur photographer who is a little bit stuck in his own mind and has some very real issues he needs to address. First off, before all the complaints. Crave has moments where I was generally interested in what was going on. Sequences, and scenes that were really engaging. Not a ton of those, but they are there, and that is where most of the…
Man I should have turned this off. It was awful and a waste of my time. Charles de Lauzirika does wonderful things with DVD bonus features, but I guess spending all that time on other people's sets doesn't necessarily make you a great filmmaker. So tone-deaf. So cliché.
No, Aiden. This is real
"Crave" is a pretty dark and gloomy movie. It's a precise characterization of the photographer Aiden (Josh Lawson). He makes pictures of victims at a crime scene, as a hobby or as a job (That wasn't entirely clear to me). As the film progresses, it's obvious that he has a kind of split personality and imagines himself to be a guardian angel in a society that is desolate, violent and ruthless. One time he sees himself as the protector of a girl on the subway who got hassled by two macho's. Another day he fantasizes that he uses a sledge hammer on some guy who is talking disturbingly loud to someone else at an AA…
Director Charles de Lauzirika (Blade Runner: producer - 2007 Final Cut version), shows us a subjugated photographer; his body of work consisting mostly of 'crime-scene' photos, which push him further into a dark and dingy world of morbid images. Images of people who were alive. Lauzirika shows this to us by closing in on the 'missing girls'' posters and other plot devices, for instance quick, almost subliminal flashbacks (that should not be paused at; sometimes it gives away the plot or worse, the subconscious does not hold it for long and the film goes misunderstood or the viewer becomes dissatisfied with the whole deal. The keen viewer will not pause.
The photographer, Aiden, as shown at the beginning of the…
This has a great idea & if it had a decent leading actor it could of been a classic, The story is about a crime scene photographer becomes more & more distacted with reality & starts having violent fantasies , Its realy a missed opportunity & could of been a modern day Taxi Driver
