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Deliverance of Silence (2012)
A serial killer, with a heart
Wow! This film blows me away to how much energy, hard work and soul is put into this film. I watched this film today and had to simply write something about this.
'Deliverance of Silence' is a pure pleasure! Freddy M Diaz have done a good job of telling the basic story of what I think was a beautiful love story between a serial key killer and a mute with an attitude against her mother. I felt that the acting was outstanding. I couldn't think of a single flaw about this film because it was perfect. Nothing more to add to that.
Having seen this film three times thus far, I will say that watching it is like peeling layers off an onion. You see more and more with each viewing - little treasures and nuggets that you find almost by accident. The first time I saw it, after watching it a first time I couldn't make heads or tails to what I thought of it. Then I found myself smiling. I did like it. When I went back again (and again!) I liked it more and more.
Damage (2012)
The camera never lies
In this narrative drama, the camera plays a vital role which I believe is the eyes. Adam Burton plays Felix, a model photographer who takes pictures of a beautiful wannabe model Caroline Murphy. During Felix and Caroline's conversation about her marriage, Felix picks up on her true emotions due to his experience in capturing the essence of inner beauty through women and tells her she's unhappy with her fiancé James. This is a powerful point of the whole film and therefore I felt director Kris Smith used the camera as a very significant role that's more important than all the characters combined. Everyone is pretty much blind and naive however Felix and his prop can identify people's proper emotions which I felt was very creative and clever!
Throughout the film we are drawn to a tense build-up that causes the 'damage' of two ordinary beings that are getting married. I felt watching this that I was actually there not wanting Felix to destroy the 'special day' but I couldn't and to me that's so amazing to experience. This is not a film for people looking for action and adventure as quite the opposite happens here. It's a film about an antihero who has a moment of self-righteousness and decides to take action to what he feels is right, and is left suspended at the end.
Bookmarking the two lines "So Miss Murphy, what do you do for a living?" is pure genius and I couldn't agree more to the sheer amount of praise and respect this film keeps getting.