The plot of the film concerns a newspaper reporter who begins to notice that there are a number of children turning up dead in ways that should connect their deaths. As he begins to dig deeper into the film he finds that corruption runs deep with in the police force and government. Anyone who questions what is going on meets with some form of nastiness for a variety of reasons, favoritism, cronyism, cover up and joy.The reasons are limitless so take your pick Its a bleak look at society and the sort of thing best described as Modern Film Noir (actually I should add the qualifier of good or great modern Noir since there are so many bad attempts). Its compulsively watchable and my attempt to watch a few minutes to see if it was worth going to see the film at the IFC center resulted in my watching the film all the way to the haunting ending.
As stand alone film its a masterpiece. Its a dark little tale thats a cynical as they come. The world black and the fact that good men (the police) refuse to do the right thing makes is darker (The main character is spurred on to continue his inquiry because of that statement). Its possibly one of the best films for this year, I'll have to think about it since how I feel about the film has been altered by seeing the second film. (Though certainly the film is perfectly fine on its own) Until the next film you don't see how it really ties into the Yorkshire Ripper case though it does clearly show the problems with the Yorkshire police department as the killings were just starting (or at least starting t be recognized).
As stand alone film its a masterpiece. Its a dark little tale thats a cynical as they come. The world black and the fact that good men (the police) refuse to do the right thing makes is darker (The main character is spurred on to continue his inquiry because of that statement). Its possibly one of the best films for this year, I'll have to think about it since how I feel about the film has been altered by seeing the second film. (Though certainly the film is perfectly fine on its own) Until the next film you don't see how it really ties into the Yorkshire Ripper case though it does clearly show the problems with the Yorkshire police department as the killings were just starting (or at least starting t be recognized).