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Fyodor Dostoyevsky (novel)
Gary Walkow (writer)
Release Date:
6 March 1998 (USA) more
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I am a sick man...
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Adapted from Dostoevsky's novella, Henry Czerny plays the narrator, Underground Man. Filled with self-hatred... more | add synopsis
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1 win more
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Sad bastard reasons away any attempt to make his life happier more (7 total)
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(Credited cast) | Henry Czerny | ... | The Underground Man |
 | Sheryl Lee | ... | Liza |
 | Jon Favreau | ... | Zerkov |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
 | Seth Green | ... | Punk Neighbor |
 | Christine Hanson | ... | Floozie |
| Alina Panova | ... | Zerkov's floozie |
| Kristine Pham | ... | Hostess |
| Geoffrey Rivas | ... | Tom |
 | Eamonn Roche | ... | Simon |
| Charlie Stratton | ... | Jerry |
 | James Troesh | ... | The Boss |
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When I saw this film, I was aware that it was a retelling of a Dostoyevky story but not one I had read it. I still found it a very enjoyable film, which held my attention the whole way.
The self-defeating, somewhat neurotic protagonist manages to mess up every opportunity of improving his life that comes his way but manages to do so from a position of either moral or intellectual superiority. He justifies logically all his disastrous decisions and questions the sanity of anything he does that is motivated by emotion. He can't see the point.
He vacillates constantly between rejecting everyone around him and craving their love, friendship or forgiveness. Having met the "hooker with a heart of gold" who tidies his flat and, uniquely in the film, shows him respect and love, he drives her away with brutality and insults. In a momentary spell of remorse, he searches for her in the rain-soaked streets and looking back on this act in his video diary asks: "Why did I look for her? If I had found her, I would just have got back with her and tormented her again"
The acting is excellent, the photography tight and claustrophobic, which suits the protagonists tiny world. The editing cuts between his direct contributions to video diary, historical narrative and his flights of fancy at various points. It DID make me want to read the book but I think the film a work that stands up well on its own.