Am not sure who is enabling whom in this 1968 sociopathic thriller?
Is it Anthony Perkins who plays a disturbed man named Dennis or Tuesday Weld who plays Sue Ann as his pretty sidekick?
All I know is that I never felt any desensitized violence in the killing. No agent orange here. There were too many pregnant pauses evoking images of the rippling effects of actions and their effects upon others.
How does a sociopathic thriller evoke empathy?
Visionary director Noel Black made it happen by planting Hollywood in New England and drawing on styles of the past.
He brought neat touches, flashbacks, naive and knowing together in a magical way.
"There is an extraordinary patience and calculation to Anthony Perkins elaborate ruse" writes one reviewer. I couldn't agree more as in spite of the hectic pace of the plot, Dennis seemed to be in the slow time as his earlier film "Psycho"
Pretty Poison was reel therapy for the Vietnam Era and casting Anthony Perkins for the disturbed young man was brilliant.
There was no slow time or cinematic moments on Vietnam's Hamburger Hill. Instead there was only cold beer, hamburger and the Follies Bergere after seeing your buddies get blown away.
It has been over 30 years since Vietnam and the war is still not over because of the herbicide agent orange sprayed into the de militarized zone. Dennis was right after all about the poisoning in the water.
Is it Anthony Perkins who plays a disturbed man named Dennis or Tuesday Weld who plays Sue Ann as his pretty sidekick?
All I know is that I never felt any desensitized violence in the killing. No agent orange here. There were too many pregnant pauses evoking images of the rippling effects of actions and their effects upon others.
How does a sociopathic thriller evoke empathy?
Visionary director Noel Black made it happen by planting Hollywood in New England and drawing on styles of the past.
He brought neat touches, flashbacks, naive and knowing together in a magical way.
"There is an extraordinary patience and calculation to Anthony Perkins elaborate ruse" writes one reviewer. I couldn't agree more as in spite of the hectic pace of the plot, Dennis seemed to be in the slow time as his earlier film "Psycho"
Pretty Poison was reel therapy for the Vietnam Era and casting Anthony Perkins for the disturbed young man was brilliant.
There was no slow time or cinematic moments on Vietnam's Hamburger Hill. Instead there was only cold beer, hamburger and the Follies Bergere after seeing your buddies get blown away.
It has been over 30 years since Vietnam and the war is still not over because of the herbicide agent orange sprayed into the de militarized zone. Dennis was right after all about the poisoning in the water.