After seeing this movie in the video store, me and my friend decided to borrow it thinking it might be interesting. By the time we'd finished watching it a whole new side of society had opened up and revealed itself to me. The story is simple- a private eye, hired by an old lady to find out the truth behind a film she found in her deceased husbands safe that shows a young girl being murdered on film- is the murder real? Who were the men who perpetrated the crime? And so begins the journey into a side of society we rarely see, let alone believe exists, a journey that is both dark and disturbing but almost true. It makes you wonder, do you know your friends as well as you'd like to. Is there something that there hiding. Do they have a side that we'd dismiss as fiction? Although this movie isn't gory or graphic(except for one scene) it still has the power to shock you with its images and themes that run through the film. The way Nicholas Cage's character changes is entirely believable. I mean wouldn't you change if you went from being a family man with a happy, one sided view to life, to a man who has been corrupted by a world he never knew existed? Overall a brilliant study of the human character and the many faces a person can have. You have been warned though this movie is very disturbing and should not be watched alone (or if you have a weak stomach) 9/10
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