Osnovni koncept, ma koliko se vodio klasičnim geslom »pazi šta želiš, možda ti se i ostvari«, ipak deluje sveže, a solidan dizajn lokacija u tome svakako pomaže. Problem je, međutim, što se Volckman i ekipa bespotrebno poštapaju izrabljenim aparatima zapleta, poput ubistva u prošlosti, ubice u ludnici i dinamike sukoba u braku koju vode različita viđenja pojmova i postupaka. Stvari se zanatski i tehnički donekle popravljaju u vrtoglavoj završnici koja funkcioniše po nekoj internoj logici, ali to nije neka naročita…

Mark Putnam was the first FBI agent that was convinced for murder. His victim was his ex-informant Susan Smith with whom he broke the professional rule not to get involved romantically. Above Suspicion is a fairly safe treatment of the true crime story.

Too bad that the renowned genre helmer Phillip Noyce did not manage to do anything beyond telling the story in the way of true crime TV shows. There is no flair of thriller or backwoods noir other…

Well, fuck you Lars von Trier. Fuck your depression, self-loathing and, most of all, the nerve to try to pull it through a half-cooked metaphor with a serial killer in its centre. Fuck your Jack and the house he has never built (ups, spoiler). Fuck the broken jack he uses as tool in the first murder he describes as an incident.

Fuck your fear of flying that makes you trying poorly to “design” the Pacific Northwest somewhere in the forests…

Dramaturgically speaking, every detail is in place and all of them get a pay-off that is usually brilliant thanks to the airtight script penned by the director and his “Okja” assistant director Han Jin-won. Countless tomes of theoretical analysis and anthropological studies of class system could be written just about the smell as the source of the plot mechanics, the use of elements, the topography of the locations used or the use of high culture alone. Remarks like Mr Park’s…