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Compliance

#1 Post by prettyxcool » Wed Mar 20, 2013 9:41 pm

Couldn't find a thread, so posting here!

Saw Compliance last night at the Courthouse Hotel. It was packed. Good to see ejwrank again, david, asamaic, cinefila and ritamistry.

This is exceptionally well made and acted, but talk about harrowing, shocking and frustrating! Total disbelief how people can be so gullible, and not surprising it happened in small town USA, presumably, where people are not so well educated? Where is common good sense, innocent until proven guilty, and do they not know their rights, have a lawyer present etc. You really want to scream at them. It was 90 minutes long, but it felt long as the degradation went on and on, and how much more does the victim has to suffer, and how much longer before they realise. Still reeling and to think it is all true, and according to the closing credits, it has repeatedly happened 70 times, good grief. 8O 8/10
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#2 Post by caitlinmorton » Wed Mar 20, 2013 9:45 pm

prettyxcool wrote:Couldn't find a thread, so posting here!

Saw this last night at the Courthouse Hotel. It was packed. Good to see ejwrank again, david, asamaic, cinefila and ritamistry.

This is exceptionally well made and acted, but talk about harrowing, shocking and frustrating! Total disbelief how people can be so gullible, and not surprising it happened in small town USA, presumably, where people are not so well educated? Where is common good sense, innocent until proven guilty, and do they not know their rights, have a lawyer present etc. You really want to scream at them. It was 90 minutes long, but it felt long as the degradation went on and on, and how much more does the victim has to suffer, and how much longer before they realise. Still reeling and to think it is all true, and according to the closing credits, it has repeatedly happened 70 times, good grief. 8O 8/10
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#3 Post by asamaic » Wed Mar 20, 2013 9:54 pm

prettyxcool wrote:Couldn't find a thread, so posting here!

Saw this last night at the Courthouse Hotel. It was packed. Good to see ejwrank again, david, asamaic, cinefila and ritamistry.

This is exceptionally well made and acted, but talk about harrowing, shocking and frustrating! Total disbelief how people can be so gullible, and not surprising it happened in small town USA, presumably, where people are not so well educated? Where is common good sense, innocent until proven guilty, and do they not know their rights, have a lawyer present etc. You really want to scream at them. It was 90 minutes long, but it felt long as the degradation went on and on, and how much more does the victim has to suffer, and how much longer before they realise. Still reeling and to think it is all true, and according to the closing credits, it has repeatedly happened 70 times, good grief. 8O 8/10
I'm glad I went in the end - LondonCityNights said it wasn't exploitative and he was right - it could have been an utterly tasteless flick, but I think the writer-director was fairly respectful. It's an uncomfortable watch, but a compelling one.

At the start, the caller seems really smart, tricking people in revealing details he then uses against them - when he becomes more and more outrageous and cruel in his directions, it's too late, Becky is too broken to react the way we want her to. We were told before the screening it was based on a true story - then again at the start and the end.

I do feel a little uneasy that the girl who Becky was based on didn't collaborate with the filmmaker, but given there were so many similar prank calls, there is a need to publicise what the caller did to prevent any other people ending up in the same situation. The film has an important underlying message - if it wasn't important, the film wouldn't have been inspired by real life.
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Re: Miscellaneous Film Events

#4 Post by asamaic » Wed Mar 20, 2013 9:54 pm

caitlinmorton wrote:Saw what?
Compliance.
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Re: Compliance

#5 Post by TheDude » Thu Mar 21, 2013 8:33 am

It's bizarre and shocking how many people were tricked into doing horrible things to others, there's more on the Wiki page about some of the incidents and legal cases that followed... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_sear ... _call_scam
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Re: Compliance

#6 Post by The Sparrow » Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:16 am

It's damn annoying how limited a release this film is getting!
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Re: Compliance

#7 Post by ejwrank » Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:22 am

The Sparrow wrote:It's damn annoying how limited a release this film is getting!

I know it's showing at Hackney Picturehouse from tomorrow so it is around but will no doubt need searching out.
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Re: Compliance

#8 Post by Celini » Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:32 am

I watched it on Netflix (US) a couple of weeks ago, it should still be there if anybody's interested.
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Re: Compliance

#9 Post by dfletch08 » Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:56 am

Disgusting, idiotic, frightening how this has happened. One good scene.
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Re: Compliance

#10 Post by The Sparrow » Thu Mar 21, 2013 1:36 pm

ejwrank wrote:
The Sparrow wrote:It's damn annoying how limited a release this film is getting!

I know it's showing at Hackney Picturehouse from tomorrow so it is around but will no doubt need searching out.
I have already which is why I know it's not within sniffing distance for me. . . . yet.
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