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Beware the prints of Darkness...


Every Breath you take, Every smile you Fake.
If you look at any study of what people (who aren't or haven't been in long-term marital *relationships* ) are scared of, high on the list (if not at the top ) you'll find "being alone "...
You know the alone those people are referring to.
Completely alone.
Going about your life with no spouse, no friends at all, and though you may interact with people during the routine of your life, you spend all your time by yourself.
If you were gone, no one would know, or as this movie implies, no one would bother to take a picture of you.
It's a fear that, wherever it may land on someone's personal list, is pretty universal.

Psychologists will tell us (and this movie will as well ), that this isn't something we really need to fear.
Well, in some sense.
You see, there's only so long you can actually be alone.
This sort of "utterly without significant human contact " kind of alone.
So, if one of your fears is that you will be alone "forever ", stop worrying.
Your prayers have been answered.
It's not going to happen.
Unfortunately, as with most cases of fiddling with genies in bottles, you should have been more careful with the exact phrasing of your wish.
At some point, you won't be alone, whether you're alone or not.
And there we find Seymour "Sy" Parrish.

One final note on the movie.
Though Im becoming somewhat averse to voice-over and/or narration (the thing being so popular of late ), having Sy narrate occasionally feels like a gr8 choice here.
It’s a move, because he speaks so coherently, intelligently, and tells you things rather like your favorite uncle might tell you.
That strikes me as a real decision (as opposed to having narration just for the sake of it being a neat thing people are doing ), because we don’t want it there to such a gr8 degree.
We don't want to hear him talk like that.
We want to hear him speak in some way that "signals " his insanity.

【Connie Nielsen】One Hour Photo【Robin Williams】
Give a Sigh for Sy, the Photo Guy...
"One Hour Photo " is one of those movies that creeps up on you.
I had never seen any trailers or commercials, so this was especially the case for me.
I've always been fond of Robin Williams movies, but seeing the cover in "Blockbuster " with him staring pensively through Coke-bottle glosses at a reel of unrolled film, his hair cut short and blond in a way that's just not very Robin Williams, something struck me that I had to see this at least once.

Robin Williams is Seymour "Sy" Parrish, a tubby lab tech working at a superstore photo developing center.
Director Mark Romanek won't even pretend to act like this isn't a horror movie, so the film starts off with Sy sitting in an interrogation room, being threatened by a detective who wants to know what started "this whole mess ."
After that, the movie cuts to the "beginning ," a startling contrast of a perfect family living out the American Dream in suburban America.
Nina Yorkin, a young mother, and her son Jake go to a superstore to drop off film after a birthday party.
This is where we meet Sy, nerdy but loveable, the typification of a sweet middle-aged man who likes children and hates no one.
Within 20 minutes, this glimmering utopia is shattered: that night, Nina is accusing her husband of emotional negligence, and Sy is sitting at home watching TV next to a wall posted with hundreds of pictures of the Yorkins -- one picture snagged from each roll of film they've ever developed.....

From there, "One Hour Photo " quickly becomes a startling character study.
Something is terribly wrong with Sy, even if we don't know what it is.
He wants to be a Yorkin, but for what reasons, we don't understand -- his interest in Nina is clearly not sexual, nor is his "love" for Jake.
He's obsessed with them, to be sure.
It's almost as if there's a hint of mental illness just brewing in some recess of Sy's mind, buried under the excruciating minutiae of his daily routine.
We sympathize with him despite (or, perhaps, because of ) these subtle disturbances in his psyche.
Towards the end of the movie, we witness a nightmare that Sy has.
While I won't go into details about it, it's almost as if you can hear the "snapping " sound of Sy's tenuous grip to reality breaking ; the nightmare scene is so vivid and shocking and utterly, utterly horrible that you can't help but feel your heart rise into your throat, as surely as if you had experienced the nightmare yourself.. This kind of directing is common throughout the entire movie: you're not just watching it, you're practically living it....

"One Hour Photo " is Romanek's vision of the subtle American dystopia : beneath the veneer of friendliness and ideal living are things like parental negligence, sexual abuse, depression, creepy old men that stalk children, and insanity....
If you watch the first and last twenty minutes of the movie, the change is shocking ; if you watch it from beginning to end, you practically don't notice...

"One Hour Photo " is a chilling psycho thriller that is far better than 90% of the psycho thrillers released each year.
The approach to the story and Williams' terrific performance help it rise above the average.
Definitely worth checking out.
But don't say I didn't warn you if you feel a little shaky every time you get your film developed.