MORTAL THOUGHTS - 1991
MORTAL THOUGHTS - STYLISH MODERN THRILLER
Yes, It's movie time again and boy, do I have a fascinating film to tell you all about. It's been awhile but it feels good to be able to discuss an intelligent, well written drama with you that makes you think.
Mortal Thoughts does just that. This is a movie with real characters - blue collar types living in the gritty world of anger and violence. These characters are real people with real feelings.
Cynthia (Demi Moore) and Joyce (Glenne Headly) are lifelong friends who can't help but being drawn into each others marital problems. Joyce is married to James (Bruce Willis), a repulsive specimen of a man who verbally and physically abuses her, pops pills like candy, and frequently makes passes at Cynthia. Cynthia's husband Arthur (John Pankow) is an ambitious salesman who refuses to have anything to do with James and Joyce.
No one could blame Joyce for having violent thoughts about James nor for her sharing them with her best friend but when James comes up murdered she is the first suspect.
The film is told in flashbacks, as Cynthia gives her statement to a pair of homicide detectives (Harvey Keitel and Billie Neal). the flashbacks, slow motion scenes, and the haunting score enhance the film beautifully and manages to pull the audience into this intriguing film.
These well defined characters are brought to life wonderfully by Moore, Headly, and Willis. Moore, especially deserves praise for her performance here. She is powerful in many scenes where no dialogue is needed to express her feelings. You can just see it in her face and eyes.
Headly is excellent as the victimized Joyce, who is just as reckless in her own way as James. She continues to stay with him because for some misguided reason she thinks he loves her and will change.
Director Alan Rudolph, with a well written script by William Reilly and Claude Kerven has managed to capture the intensity of the old working class neighborhood with it's random domestic violence and excessive profanity.
Mortal Thoughts is disguised as a murder mystery but it's climax is inevitable from the start. What it lacks in mystery is made up for with it's intriguing characters living in the real harsh world and the affect this has on their everyday lives. This not only demonstrates the affect living in this kind of society has on themselves but how in turn it can influence relationships with others.
Yes, It's movie time again and boy, do I have a fascinating film to tell you all about. It's been awhile but it feels good to be able to discuss an intelligent, well written drama with you that makes you think.
Mortal Thoughts does just that. This is a movie with real characters - blue collar types living in the gritty world of anger and violence. These characters are real people with real feelings.
Cynthia (Demi Moore) and Joyce (Glenne Headly) are lifelong friends who can't help but being drawn into each others marital problems. Joyce is married to James (Bruce Willis), a repulsive specimen of a man who verbally and physically abuses her, pops pills like candy, and frequently makes passes at Cynthia. Cynthia's husband Arthur (John Pankow) is an ambitious salesman who refuses to have anything to do with James and Joyce.
No one could blame Joyce for having violent thoughts about James nor for her sharing them with her best friend but when James comes up murdered she is the first suspect.
The film is told in flashbacks, as Cynthia gives her statement to a pair of homicide detectives (Harvey Keitel and Billie Neal). the flashbacks, slow motion scenes, and the haunting score enhance the film beautifully and manages to pull the audience into this intriguing film.
These well defined characters are brought to life wonderfully by Moore, Headly, and Willis. Moore, especially deserves praise for her performance here. She is powerful in many scenes where no dialogue is needed to express her feelings. You can just see it in her face and eyes.
Headly is excellent as the victimized Joyce, who is just as reckless in her own way as James. She continues to stay with him because for some misguided reason she thinks he loves her and will change.
Director Alan Rudolph, with a well written script by William Reilly and Claude Kerven has managed to capture the intensity of the old working class neighborhood with it's random domestic violence and excessive profanity.
Mortal Thoughts is disguised as a murder mystery but it's climax is inevitable from the start. What it lacks in mystery is made up for with it's intriguing characters living in the real harsh world and the affect this has on their everyday lives. This not only demonstrates the affect living in this kind of society has on themselves but how in turn it can influence relationships with others.
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