Headache-Inducing

Rating: Null/10 (27 April 2004)

a few questions:
1.) how many false climaxes did this film have? I thought it would end with the father committing suicide, then it went on and on..was the structure "interesting" or merely pointless? who cares about 'the voice'? he gets killed in the final credit sequence by poor giancarlo (come back lina wertmuller,all is forgiven!)
2.) how do you describe those constant jump cuts,zooms, etc.--is there a word for this style of editing? Whatever it was, it was damn irritating and left me with a profound headache when the film was over. I have some good thoughts about director Tony Scott because of The Hunger, where Catherine Deneuve was so so so hot, and The Fan, where Robert deNiro gave a great performance in a bad film---but is he always such a bad director? at least, the cinematographer is brilliant.
3.) Is this film absolutely shameless, manipulating every emotion possible in the crudest way--from sympathy for the little girl (boo hoo) to glee at the torture of the bad guys. As Winston Churchill said about the Germans "either at your throat or at your feet." a sick personality has no middle ground between sentimentality and outright viciousness.