Task: Sentiment Analysis
Input (English): The devil's in the details . Mostly notorious when it was released in 1987 for featuring wholesome sitcom star Lisa Bonet in a sex scene with some nudity (and thereby supposedly offending Bill Cosby), ANGEL HEART has acquired quite a reputation as a cult film since then, some of which is quite deserved for its astonishingly beautiful cinematography and editing. Some of the compositions (particularly two repeated overhead shots of stairwells, one in Harlem and one in New Orleans) are among the most stunning of any film from the 1980s, and the set decorations are similarly out of this world. Though there's also Mickey Rourke's beautiful youthful face (pre-boxing injuries) to be gazed upon, there's really little else to recommend this movie, even if its big twist at the end catches you unawares: the film is basically constructed as a rebus, with various visual (seeming) non sequiturs keying you in to the big narrative surprise at the end. But the big horror moments have almost no suspense built into them, and the acting is fairly shoddy: O'Rourke gives a real hambone performance, and Bonet must be the dullest voodoo priestess ever to appear onscreen. You know what you're in for when the characters have names like "Harry Angel," "Louis Cyphre," "Toots Sweet," and "Epiphany Proudfoot"; even the beautiful look of the film can't overcome the shallowness and dispiritedness of the script
Output (English): NEG