EDMOND (DVD Review) - 11/11/07

Stuart Gordon (Director of "Fortress") takes on David Mamet's (Writer & Director) Screenplay of his work adapted from the stage. "Edmond" truly is bizarre; white-collar worker William H. Macy (Who holds the whole film together) loses it big-time slips off the straight & narrow and ends up downtown in the tawdry part floating with pimps, whores & the usual dregs. Not really understanding what is happening to his head he totally flips - Beats the crap out of a pimp, slashes a nice & pleasant girl he has just had sex with to death, finds god after berating a poor woman on the subway then ends up in jail being buggered by a big black dude. Quite what anyone can make of it I don't know? A hard & tough film to watch with a mental instability gradually getting worse with sexual & racist overtones. Maybe it is trying to say "Live Your Life" instead of the shallow wanderings of Macy's character of Edmond.

Joe Mantegna (A Mamet regular puts in a cameo) with Denise Richards playing a nasty slut, Ling Bai as a peep-show hostess and Mena Suvari also cropping up. Certainly not Family viewing and hard to understand the emotional context - Maybe some people are just emotionally stunted in their lives?