Some Things I Think I Think About Seven Psychopaths

[rdansky]

1. It's a very writerly movie.
2. And by "writerly", I mean "long, chewy monologues" and, more to the point, the whole thing is about the writer character, whose inability to write is set up as the biggest tragedy in a film full of death, murder, bereavement, cancer, psychosis, and dognapping.
3. Sam Rockwell is brilliant. Then again, Sam Rockwell is always

Comments

[carneggy]

No matter how you slice it, there aren't actually seven psychopaths in this movie

More than seven, if you start including the victims of Tom Waits' character in flashbacks.

[rdansky]

Or six, if you count only the main ones. Possibly five. But yeah, seven is right out.