Obsession

I JUST WANT TO ADD THAT I WAS HAPPY TO READ THAT "OBSESSION" IS DOING SO WELL AT THE BOX OFFICE BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY TIMES THAT FILMS SEEM TO PLAY AT THE CINEMA VILLAGE & THEN ARE NEVER HEARD FROM AGAIN. A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THAT IS AN EXCELLENT FILM CALLED, "A MOSQUITO IN HER EAR," WHICH PLAYED AT THE CINEMA VILLAGE LAST WEEK, BUT DOESSN'T SEEM TO BE PLAYING ANYWHERE ELSE NOW. IF ANY OF THE CINEMA VILLAGE FILMGOERS GET A CHANCE TO SEE IT, I HOPE THAT THEY WILL DO SO BECAUSE NICOLA RINCIARI CAPTURED HOW HORRIFYING CHILDHOOD CAN FEEL TO CHILDREN IN THE SAME WAY WE SAW IN 1950'S CLASSIC FILMS LIKE "FORBIDDEN GAMES" & "THE LITTLE FUGITIVE" & IN THE 1977 SPANISH CLASSIC FILM, "CRIA" (ALL OF WHICH I SAW AT THE CINEMA VILLAGE BACK IN THE DAYS WHEN IT WAS A ONE-SCREEN REVIVAL THEATER). AND RUHI PAL CONVEYED THE SAME LEVEL OF TALENT THAT WE SAW IN THE CHILD ACTORS IN THOSE FILMS.

I THOUGHT IT WAS SO APPROPRIATE FOR THE DISTRIBUTORS OF THIS FILM TO USE THE FIRST PART OF OSCAR WILDE'S FAMOUS QUOUTE: "BE CAREFUL OF WHAT YOU WISH FOR" ON ITS POSTER . THE SECOND PART OF THAT QUOTE IS, "IT MAY HAPPEN." & THIS FILM DOES A VERY GOOD JOB OF SHOWING THE DEVASTATING RESULTS OF FULFILLED WISHES. AND CINEMATOGRAPHER TAYLOR CLEMONS WAS VERY SKILLFULL AT USING HIS CAMERA WORK TO SHOW THE SINISTER SIDE OF NIKKI ( INDE NAVARETTE), THE WOMAN WITH WHOM BARON (MICHAEL JOHNSTON) INITIALLY FALLS IN LOVE WITH, BUT WHOSE LOVE LATER COMES TO BE TOO MUCH FOR HIM TO HANDLE. WE CAN ALSO CREDIT SIRECTOR-SCREENWRITER CURRY BARKER FOR CREATINNNG TWO SUCH FASCINATING CHARACTERS , & FOR GETTING MS. NAVARETTE TO GIVE SUCH A MANIC PERFORMANCE, & FOR GETTING MR. JOHNSTON TO CONVEY THE FRUSTRATION OF SOMEONE WHO HAS CREATED A SITUATION FROM WHICH HE CANNOT ESCAPE. I JUST WISH THAT MR. BARKER HAD CUT DOWN A LITTLE ON THE BLOOD & GORE. WHENEVER A DIRECTOR CREATES A HORROR FILM, HE OR SHE SHOULD TRY TO AVOID DESCENDING INTO THE "TORTURE PORN" APECTS OF THE "SAW FILMS.