Thanks to Williams' subtle, incisive performance, we come to understand something of what makes this strange character tick. We are always anticipating some potentially dreadful event, yet Romanek doesn't go for the easy thrill or the obvious plot turn. As both writer and director, Romanek manages to keep us in a state of vague uneasiness throughout. Then comes the day when Si realizes that he is no longer content to be a mere vicarious member of this adopted family and, thus, begins his plan to gradually insinuate himself more and more directly into their lives. The film centers around Si's growing fixation with this one family and his delusional belief that he too could somehow become an integral part of their family unit. And nobody is `grayer' than Si Parrish, an innocuous, socially undeveloped milquetoast who spends his days working as a photo developer in one of those sterile five-and-dime drug stores (just like the one in `The Good Girl') - and his nights sitting all alone in his drab apartment brooding over a massive family-photo shrine he has erected to the Yorkins, a seemingly happy family of three whose pictures Si has been developing, copying and obsessing over for more than seven years now. Romanek understands that the greatest threats to our safety and lives often come from the gray, nondescript people who surround us unnoticed, the `nobodies' whose benign faces and vacuous smiles reveal no trace of the insanity, evil and potential for doing us harm that may be lurking right there under the surface. Instead, Romanek has chosen to take a more subtle approach, fashioning a film that downplays the potential violence of its material while, at the same time, recognizing the humanity of its central figure. Given its premise, the film could easily have degenerated into a sordid, exploitative tale of obsession and madness.
Точка.Robin Williams gives what may well be the performance of his career in `One Hour Photo,' a creepy psychological thriller written and directed with cool precision by Mark Romanek. It’s a long way back to sunset, a far way on to dawn, so you summon all the fool things of your life, the stupid lovely things done with people known so very well who are now so very dead – And wasn’t it true, had he read somewhere, more people in hospitals die at 3 A.M. The moon rolls by to look at you down there, with its idiot face. God, if you had strength to rouse up, you’d slaughter your half-dreams with buckshot! But no, you lie pinned to a deep well-bottom that’s burned dry.
ROBIN WILLIAMS INSOMNIA QUOTES PATCH
Sleep is a patch of death, but three in the morn, full wide-eyed staring, is living death! You dream with your eyes open.
You’re the nearest to dead you’ll ever be save dying. But three, now, Christ, three A.M.! Doctors say the body’s at low tide then. Five or six in the morning, there’s hope, for dawn’s just under the horizon.
“Oh God, midnight’s not bad, you wake and go back to sleep, one or two’s not bad, you toss but sleep again.
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