Our next Schumacher offering is 1999’s 8MM. We have fairly similar reviews of the film, before embarking on a discussion of what makes human do what they do, the voyeurism inherent in modern life, and why Keanu Reeves wouldn’t have been able to save this movie.
VERONICA GUERIN (2003): pending certain events in Sam’s house, we’ll be concluding our Schumacher season.
HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX (2007): David Yates, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint
TOMORROWLAND (2015): Brad Bird, George Clooney, Hugh Laurie
Light-heartedly enough, the first link is to a book exploring one of the concepts we address early on this week, the nature of evil: https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=oUfHAAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=the+nature+of+evil&ots=jCSup0M8NJ&sig=6gxqqHOnoZ1OHVVrIjVAqlue4b8#v=onepage&q=the%20nature%20of%20evil&f=false. Here’s the IMDB page for Andrew Kevin Walker, writer of this and other 90s staples FIGHT CLUB and SE7EN: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001825/?ref_=tt_ov_wr. Here are two interesting articles about voyeurism in cinema, and a list of other films on the subject: https://mubi.com/lists/a-hidden-eye-voyeurism-surveillance-in-cinema, https://humanities.byu.edu/the-dual-meaning-of-cinematic-voyeurism, and http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2015/25-great-voyeuristic-movies. Finally, this is a good piece on social media and voyeurism, a subject on which we ended this week: http://www.sutherlandlabs.com/blog/social-media-and-a-culture-of-voyeurism