Dominik's background in music videos is evident, and Geoffrey Hall and Kevin Hayward's cinematography is awash with colour, giving the movie a cramped, prison-like feel. The film proceeds as if we're inside Chopper's head, while also being kept at arm's length. A seasoned comedy professional who once starred in his own sketch comedy series, Bana , he was an unlikely choice for this part, but pulls it off. He uses his imitative skills to become Read on screen. It's a brilliant image, highlighting Chopper's solidity and rebelliousness, as well as his unwillingness, or perhaps his inability, to change.
Chopper is an incredible film.
Dominik and co-producer Michele Bennett have cut a life with immense and immediate history down to fragments. The information they give us is just enough to formulate a sensationilised, yet fascinating rendering of what is already an embellished story to begin with, owing much thanks to Bana and the combination of merciless intelligence and muddled paranoia that is Chopper Read. All rights reserved.