By MICHAEL SMITH Movie Critic on Jan 25, 2010, at 6:17 PM Updated on 1/25 at 6:17 PM
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The film it seems that everyone at Sundance Film Festival was talking about on Sunday night, according to a pair of blogs, was "The Killer Inside Me," the crime tale filmed in Oklahoma last year.
The premiere apparently induced a substantial amount of venom for its graphic violence against women, apparently at a level not seen on film in a couple of years. In the blogs by writers covering this year's Sundance festival, films like "American Psycho" were brought to mind, and much was discussed about a scene involving Casey Affleck's deputy character punching Jessica Alba's prostitute in the face, repeatedly, with her features noticeably distorting.
After Sunday night's first screening, a woman reportedly lambasted director Michael Winterbottom during a Q&A session, questioning how the film made it into the festival's lineup.
Ouch. That's the reaction to some of the comments made (I don't want to post one blog that I read, as it unabashedly gave away the film's entire plot). This reaction also applies to reading the works of Jim Thompson, the Oklahoma native and pulpy fiction writer whose books never shy away from the cruelty factor, especially against women.
As I wrote in a blog last year when the film was announced, one need only watch "The Grifters" or "The Getaway," both adapted from Thompson's books, to see how women are treated in the author's world.
The key question now, as the film has not yet gained a distribution deal for the United States: What studio is going to show an interest in promoting such a hot-button, buzzed-about motion picture? Or rather, will all of the major studios shy away, despite the film's star power?
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