{"id":10860,"date":"2016-02-25T20:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T02:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=10860"},"modified":"2016-02-19T21:58:43","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T03:58:43","slug":"simon-killer-2012-antonio-campos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/10860","title":{"rendered":"Simon Killer (2012, Antonio Campos)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it&#8217;s a gimmick, but it worked for me, belatedly.  I spent most of the movie wondering at the widescreen cinematography (which seems to use its black bars as a weapon, subtracting from the picture rather than adding) and the going-nowhere story, only gradually realizing that friendly, innocent Simon is being revealed as a liar and woman-beater.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image16\/simon1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Adam Cook:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The portentous title immediately creates an anticipation for the events that will follow. Yet whilst there is a logic to the title, Campos smartly plays with the audience&#8217;s expectations as this is not a serial killer thriller but the character study of a detached sociopath who leeches off others before discarding them when they have fulfilled their usefulness. Simon is a complicated and ambiguous character, weak and pitiful yet cunning and manipulative. He is a man who adapts himself to take advantages of situations, appearing hurt and helpless yet always in control.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image16\/simon2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>American Simon is Brady Corbet (part of the <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/7008\">Melancholia<\/a><\/em> wedding meltdown) and his girl in Paris is Mati Diop (<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/4105\">35 Shots of Rum<\/a><\/em>), and the two cowrote their parts together with Campos, whose third feature <em>Christine<\/em> premiered at Sundance the week I watched this.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image16\/simon3.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it&#8217;s a gimmick, but it worked for me, belatedly. I spent most of the movie wondering at the widescreen cinematography (which seems to use its black bars as a weapon, subtracting from the picture rather than adding) and the going-nowhere story, only gradually realizing that friendly, innocent Simon is being revealed as a liar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,1876,34,2056,403],"class_list":["post-10860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-antonio-campos","tag-france","tag-mati-diop","tag-paris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10860"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10885,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10860\/revisions\/10885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}