I was going to write a post about Neil La Bute’s ostensibly thoughtful but really just a ‘Pacific Heights’-style thriller, ‘Lakeview Terrace’, and about how it’s well photographed and mounted with imagination, and how Patrick Wilson is turning into my favourite same-generation-as-me actor, and how Samuel L Jackson reminds us of how he really can bring it when he’s working for more than just a pay cheque, and how the exploration of racial tension, the psychological terrain of the police officer, the power dynamics in marriages when one set of in-laws is wealthy, and the simple concept of how an obsession with private property may be at the core of the breakdown of community (good fences in this film not only fail to make good neighbours, but become a tool for concealing the sinister agenda of the bloke next door). I was going to write about how Neil La Bute’s films create a mood that is rare in contemporary mainstream cinema and that he is at least trying to say something meaningful, even if the content of his purpose has to battle to float above the apparently a priori cynicism that is his modus operandi (two Latin phrases in one sentence might be the kind of thing that would impress a character in one of his movies). I was going to write about how, for the first hour or so, I felt close to compelled by ‘Lakeview Terrace’, and thought it had the potential to be one of the best films I’ve seen this year; before it turned into less than the sum of its parts. I was going to write about these things, but then I read this.
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