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Look (2007)
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Reviews Counted:35
Fresh:21
Rotten:14
Average Rating:5.8/10
Consensus: Though Adam Rifkin’s voyeuristic film sometimes feels like only a clever gimmick, it's for the most part a compelling thriller with political overtones.
Rated: R [See Full Rating] for strong sexual content, pervasive language, some violence and brief drug use.
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Dec 14, 2007 Limited
Synopsis:
The Post 9/11 world has forever changed the notion of privacy. There are now approximately 30 million surveillance cameras in the United States generating more than 4 billion hours of footage every...
The Post 9/11 world has forever changed the notion of privacy. There are now approximately 30 million surveillance cameras in the United States generating more than 4 billion hours of footage every week. And the numbers are growing. The average American is now captured over 200 times a day, in department stores, gas stations, changing rooms, even public bathrooms. No one is spared from the relentless, unblinking eye of the cameras that are hidden in every nook and cranny of day-to-day life.
Shot entirely from the point of view of the security cameras. Adam Rifkin’s Look follows several interweaving, story lines over the course of a random week in a random city. Lookis a film about the things that people do when they don’t know they’re being watched.
Based on the premise that everyone has secrets, Look takes us on a voyeuristic journey into the most personal parts of ordinary people’s lives. Everyone is guilty of selective deception. We all hide aspects our lives from those around us. It might be as benign as picking your nose in an empty elevator or perhaps something much darker. Look poses the question: Are we always alone when we think we are?
A high school English teacher tries his best to be a decent husband, a department store floor manager uses the warehouse for more than just storage, a Mini-Mart clerk has big dreams, a lawyer struggles with a sexual dilemma and sociopathic brothers ruin the day of random strangers they come in contact with. Look tells five private stories which unfold before the prying eye of the covert camera to chilling effect.
Look around you and wonder…who is watching? --© Captured Films
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Starring: Rhys Coiro, Hayes MacArthur, Giuseppe Andrews, Spencer Redford
Starring: Rhys Coiro, Hayes MacArthur, Giuseppe Andrews, Spencer Redford, Heather Hogan, Jennifer Fontaine, Jamie McShane
Director: Adam Rifkin
Director: Adam Rifkin
Screenwriter: Adam Rifkin
Producer: Brad Wyman, Barry Schuler
Composer: BT
Studio: Captured Films
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Release:
May 5, 2009
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- O-Ring
- Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
- Dolby Digital - English
- Subtitles - SDH
Additional Release Material:
- Alternate Ending
- Deleted Scenes
Trailers:
- 1. TV Spots
Behind the Scenes:
- 1. A LOOK Behind the Scenes
Audio Commentary:
- 1. Adam Rifkin - Writer/Director, Brad Wyman - Producers, Barry Schuler - Producer; Hayes MacArthur - Actor
Outtakes:
- 1. Director - Adam Rifkin: Outtakes
Reviews for Look
Look isn't processing, critiquing, or even warning; in the end, it's just recording.
This could have amounted to nothing more than a clever trick, but it's much more than that.
Like Short Cuts absent Altman's metaphysical heft, Look is an oddly compelling little film.
Rifkin skillfully interweaves plotlines in a way that makes this currently much overused device seem perkily adroit rather than tiresome.
...Rifkin's voyeuristic modus operandi ultimately transforms the film into an unexpectedly compelling piece of work.
Starting out like goofy comedy tinged with a police show, 'Look' soon shows its capable colors. Implications are there to be read, frightening or reassuring.
Once or twice a year, if we are lucky, a movie comes out of seemingly nowhere and grabs ahold of us, with thoughts and ideas that stick in our heads long after the credits have rolled out and the lights in the auditorium has illuminated again.
The whole thing feels so heavily scripted that it brings down the overarching impact. The misguided route raises the question of what kind of juicy stories might be produced by the real thing.
Beginning and ending his film with a strip tease, Rifkin suggests some leering adolescent who's gotten his hands on a pair of X-ray glasses and sees nothing but randy, flatulent fools in his midst.
By the end, you're ready to call for the abolition of video surveillance, if only so that you can stop watching all these irritating characters.
The effectiveness of it in capturing our attention attests to very fine writing and editing which serve the mockumentary framework with immediate gripping power.
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