I am very much in the research phase of my film and I met for an hour last night with Isabel Pinedo. She helped me SOOO much develop the outline of the script I will follow
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I LOVE Devil's Rejects. I think it's the all time high mark in the genre. Part of what makes it so great is that I believe Rob Zombie is really fascinated by our relationship to our own violent impulses - the uneasy, interrelated nature of the thrill of confidence, power and control - the giddy high of the freedom that accompanies th full exercise of free will -- and the repulsion at the violation of the standards that define how we understand the world. In DJ, we vascilate between identifying with the killers because we share their same disdain for their victims weakness and gulibility, and horror at the result of their madness.
The turning point in the film is when the family bickers about stopping for icecream. We completely identify with that dymanic. It's funny, and at least a part of us hopes that things work out for them.
We envy the dreamy, druggy commeraderie of them all chilling out together in the party scene. We know what that's like.
But then, when they are captured and tortured with the staple gun, do any of us sympathize? We're pretty torn at that point about who to identify with and it makes us question the whole perspective. I think the end makes it a kind of twisted morality play - evil is defeated - but at the same time, they go down gloriously, almost like religious martyrs.
On a thematic level, it's about individual freedom, nihilism and thrills vs social order and theugly, gray area of fascist control and how the two intersect and overlap.
The turning point in the film is when the family bickers about stopping for icecream. We completely identify with that dymanic. It's funny, and at least a part of us hopes that things work out for them.
We envy the dreamy, druggy commeraderie of them all chilling out together in the party scene. We know what that's like.
But then, when they are captured and tortured with the staple gun, do any of us sympathize? We're pretty torn at that point about who to identify with and it makes us question the whole perspective. I think the end makes it a kind of twisted morality play - evil is defeated - but at the same time, they go down gloriously, almost like religious martyrs.
On a thematic level, it's about individual freedom, nihilism and thrills vs social order and theugly, gray area of fascist control and how the two intersect and overlap.
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