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Want to see something
creepy?
Robin Williams turns in a disturbing
performance as a camera film developer Sy Parrish who takes
an unhealthy interest in a family he comes to know through
their snapshots.
Sy is revealed to be a lonely unloved nobody
who deludes himself that he is almost part of the Yorkin family,
taking a set of extra prints from every film the family have
ever processed and displaying them dementedly all over his
apartment wall.
Williams puts in an unsettling performance
as Parrish as he turns from what at first seems like a well
meaning stalker until, after the double whammy of being sacked
and discovering the dark secrets of Mr.Yorkin through some
dark room detective work, he is launched on a fast track to
full blown psycho.
One Hour Photo drip-feeds us, an increasingly
unsettling picture of the quietly psychotic Parrish with a
number of misleading crescendos that keep you squirming throughout.
The steady pacing of revelations about the extent of Parrish's
delusion makes being in front of this film a steadily more
and more uncomfortable place to be as Williams manages to
be both seemingly harmless and wildly unbalanced at the same
time.
Shot beautifully throughout by DOP
Jeff Cronenweth, One-Hour photo quietly takes you to one side
and shows you that even the most seemingly harmless and accommodating
of fellow human beings can turn out to be an obsessive crazy
person who knows where you live
Release Date: 4 Oct 2002
Distributor: Fox Searchlight
Cert: 15
Running Time: 95mins
www.fox.co.uk/onehourphoto
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