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MR DEEDS (12) 93min .0.
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' z :" 2' ' Music promo video maker Mark Romanek‘s feature details the small things l ' _:' : '- in life: a glance held too long. a seemingly harmless word spoken out of -' ' turn. an expression on a face in the background of a photograph. These : n4 ' .: : little things so often go unnoticed. but when one person spends their life i) '- - ° :' ' -. " -4 obsessing about them. enlarging them and studying them. they can reveal . " «-: 4"» that no one is perfect. -- : Seymour ‘Sy' Parish (Robin Williams) lives an incredibly mundane " ~- ' : .- -‘ ' existence working at the photo development counter of a cavernous ' o- :r .. ‘7' American supermarket. He lives out his days alone. but privately obsesses " w l " u- about the Yorkin family whose pictures he has developed over the last 11 Hw. " z years. In that time he has seen their marriage flourish, their baby being born '. ' w: and growing up, and only when Sy's fixating uncovers a dark secret does v -- this idyllic family unit he so desperately wishes to be a part of become '. v tainted. Sy traverses the line between voyeur and being part of their life. leading ultimately to his own "iv" a personal unravelling. .l " : This must count as one of z " Robin Williams‘ most . v " ~- -- ' understated - and notable — ' ' screen performances. rating : ' i'--:» " -- along side his psychotic author ,w'. '9 ' ' Walter Finch in Insomnia. The w r»- difference with Insomnia is in .z '- -- ".' that film his role as the bad guy . -‘ .' . ~ .' : was clearly defined - as a :l :' : seducer and manipulator of an ' :. : f' impressionable teenager— but -. '." w here, his loner Sy inhabits both a literal and metaphorical grey .3 '. .:'~:l.: .1. area. \ z .. :" 2 The film‘s photography is " 2' : " clinical but quite beautiful. with : .f ' :2 z-- Romanek allowing Williams to '. '~ . . fade into his backgrounds. his it“ ; translucent pallor and dyed hair " w " :' w " :' highlighting Sy‘s inherent .1 1".“ : .: :.:' invisibility as a person. This only .2: z 1' w adds to the tension and the 2" f " " : .' suitably untidy conclusion. A " :-- : ' coldly emotive and moving 6.". '. 1' 2 experience. (Mark Robertson) “1* }""\.1'.:. -.'. I’.‘..' " "I, H .1 ". I ; -' : ' ' .~ .~ : .' '.- .~ : Robin Williams’ most understated gr: .1. -~ -' ~ ' -' screen performance
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