Product: Fear (LASER DSIC, NOT DVD) (1996)
Rating: 3.0
A FATHER'S FEAR
Movies about a guy who terrorizes a whole family are not so uncommon in the American film production. Martin Scorsese's CAPE FEAR is a good example of a film dealing with this thematic if, of course, one doesn't count the hundreds of B-movies available here at Amazon. Now, why James Foley, the acclaimed director of AT CLOSE RANGE, took an interest in such a project ?A careful vision of FEAR, beyond the thrills produced by this kind of film, is necessary. In this perspective, the first scene of the movie is very revealing. A father of a 16 years old girl is shocked by the sexy clothes she's wearing. With his very protective behaviour, he will then do everything he can to get away David Mc Call from Reese Witherspoon. With little success of course. Note the numerous references to make-up, clothes, condoms in FEAR as if the characters wanted to protect themseves. From what ? From the bestial Mc Call whose apparitions in the film always coincide with the destruction of the protections carefully created by the father Steve Walker. Reese Witherspoon gets an hematoma while tring to protect her friend Gary from David's burst of anger and she will have her first sexual experience with him. Note also how Mc Call likes to mutilate himself, always eager to make his blood flow to prove his love for the young girl. In fact, FEAR is not a movie about a guy terrorizing a family, it's a movie about a girl becoming a woman, about a father who's afraid of it and about their fears epitomized by an unsettling Mark Wahlberg.A DVD zone future stars.