It was more physicality for me; I just wanted her walk to be some kind of alley cat but not very graceful. We mind our business and we like it that way. Films rated NC are rarely commercial. Matthew McConaughey is seen in a scene from 'Killer Joe'.
The film depicts a world that is holding onto habitability by its fingernails. Filmed by the great cinematographer Caleb Deschanel , it depicts a place where a billiard parlor has one table, fires burn all night in empty oil drums, chained pitbulls bark and slather, the nights are dark and stormy, and the flat-screen TV seems to be playing the same video about monster trucks over and over again. Striking a blow for good taste, Killer Joe eventually lifts the TV over his head and smashes it to the floor.
Almost everyone gets smashed to the floor in this movie — Chris twice, by drug dealers and Killer Joe. There are a lot of broken noses, swollen purple cheekbones and bloody faces. There is also a lot of nudity and sex, and McConaughey has an eerie power in one scene where he smoothly stage-manages Dottie in her deflowering, and another where fellatio is performed on a fried chicken drumstick. The movie is rated NC, and rightly so, and answers the question of how much sex and violence a mainstream movie requires to earn that rating.
In my opinion, the MPAA should set the bar lower. The MPAA cautions, "graphic disturbing content involving violence and sexuality, and a scene of brutality.
I counted six. Friedkin and Letts have worked before as director and writer, in the claustrophobic masterpiece " Bug " They swing for the fences. I can hardly imagine the experience of it onstage; it epitomizes the physicality that's typical of Chicago theater. As a film, it's something else. The audience laughed at the right places, applauded at the end and walked out talking about how disgusting it was. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in In , he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.
I too feel the NC rating this film proudly bears is a bit much. The MPAA's bias for sexual content over violent content is wildly known and just the fact that they oversimplify the violence in this film to "a scene of brutality" had me laughing. The film includes some of the most hard-hitting scenes of combat that I've seen in any other film this year, and I'd absolutely love to know just what scene the MPAA was referring to in the first place.
The film centers around the family of twentysomething Chris Smith played fantastically by Emile Hirsch, assuming the type of role he should continue to seek out , a lowlife drug dealer residing in a Texas trailer park, with his dim-witted father Ansel Thomas Haden Church , his annoying step-mother Sharla Gina Gershon , and mentally disabled sister Dottie Juno Temple.
Chris proposes the idea to hire "Killer" Joe Cooper Matthew McConaughey , a sleazy cop who also works as an assassin, to kill his mother and receive a cut of the insurance money, with him, Ansel, and Sharla getting a good chunk of the profits. However, things become incredibly twisted when Killer Joe begins to fall in love with Dottie, and how the whole family begins on an even steeper downward spiral due to a colossal misunderstanding thanks to Chris.
Every character in the film is despicable in their own way, either by the shameful atrocities they commit or just because of the fact that their motivation is hopelessly self-centered and shockingly shallow and inept. Thankfully, all these subhuman characters are played efficiently by first-rate performers. Emile Hirsch gives a convincing, dignified performance, in possibly one of the most confident screen roles in his adult life. Juno Temple comes off of Dirty Girl, a wonderful coming of age drama, to embody a wildly different yet extremely interesting character, seemingly taken advantage of due to her intelligence or lack thereof.
And Thomas Haden Church and Gina Gershon are consistently wonderful in their roles, especially during the climatic half when they appear to be tested as actors all together.
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