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movie review - Bullet Head

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2019.09.29

This is an interesting story that feels like an adaptation from a stage production. It's about a trio of criminals who find themselves in an atmospheric warehouse with several unrelated troubles including a very determined guard dog. It's a bit rough in its execution, but I found myself somehow rooting for the movie as it bumped its way along. The cast is superb, the story hangs together mostly well, and the ending makes it worthwhile.

It's not an easy watch either in content or execution, but I'd see it again.

Recommended.

rand()m quote

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov