Monday, November 07, 2011

The Dark Half (1993)

A writer achieves greater commercial success writing cheap novels under a pseudonym than writing serious novels under his real name. Somehow, his pseudonymous self acquires life and starts killing people.

From the synopsis above, one pretty much can imagine how this film will be. Freud, Stevenson, lots of why's and how's that go unanswered throughout the movie, the rhetoric of fiction, the conventions of Hollywood storytelling. Thus, one got it pretty much figured out. Except there is The Birds too, and that was not expected, and that does not really make much difference.

Rating: 33

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