Review: One Hour Photo

By Yakobusan on 2002-08-20 11:07:38

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He plays "Sy, the photo guy", who works in a walmart-like shop, where he leads since 11 years a photo-develop-shop. His life is empty, no wife, no children, and a hard childhood...

But he knows every customer he deals with from the pictures, because he always looks at the photos of everyone very good. And he really has it in for one family, who is a customer ever since at his shop. We meet Sy at the point, where he is starting to tilt. He dreams of beeing "Uncle Sy" for the family Yorkin, because he thinks this is the perfect family, everybody seems to be happy, the father, the mother and the child, Jake. So he wants to become a part of it. He makes them presents, has a wall full of double printed photos of them, and follows them home (sneaking) dreaming about how nice it could be if he would be a part of this family.
But then comes one day, where a new female customer wants him to develop her photos... And they show her with Will Yorkin, the father of the so beloved family, kissing and beeing together. Now he?s mad and wants to let him pay for the destruction of his illusion...

I won?t tell you more, cause then the whole tension would be gone ;)

Anyway, Robin Williams is so strong in this role, you can see him change from the lovely foto guy to a ?complete psycho who?s world is crashed...
Really scary. I think the fact, that we all know him as a good guy, makes the whole movie even better.

But now don?t expect something like "AMERICAN PSYCHO", the movie starts really slow, and gets deeper more and more. Exept for one really scary scene the tension is Hitchcock style, you don?t see much violence, at the end you?re really scared of him, while you found him more nice at the beginning.
The change of his character made me remember Jack Nicholsons character in "SHINING", it?s kinda like there.

So, I would recommend this movie if you like movies liked "CAPE FEAR", and I would give it 4 out of 5 stars. For the acting, I would say give him an academy award or something! It?s really awesome.

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Yakobusan.

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