3.11 - 8MM (1999) & Voyeurism

Our next Schumacher offering is 1999’s 8MM. We have fairly similar reviews of the film, before embarking on a discussion of what makes human do what they do, the voyeurism inherent in modern life, and why Keanu Reeves wouldn’t have been able to save this movie.

Next Week’s Film
VERONICA GUERIN (2003): pending certain events in Sam’s house, we’ll be concluding our Schumacher season.

This Week’s Media
THE WISE MAN’S FEAR (2011): Patrick Rothfuss
HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX (2007): David Yates, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint

Recommendations
MONEYBALL (2011): Bennett Miller, Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill WALK THE LINE (2005): James Mangold, Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon
PREACHING TO THE PERVERTED (1997): Stuart Urban, Guinevere Turner, Tom Bell
TOMORROWLAND (2015): Brad Bird, George Clooney, Hugh Laurie

Footnotes Light-heartedly enough, the first link is to a book exploring one of the concepts we address early on this week, the nature of evil: https://books.google.co.uk/<wbr />books?hl=en&lr=&id=<wbr />oUfHAAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=<wbr />the+nature+of+evil&ots=<wbr />jCSup0M8NJ&sig=<wbr />6gxqqHOnoZ1OHVVrIjVAqlue4b8#v=<wbr />onepage&q=the%20nature%20of%<wbr />20evil&f=false. Here’s the IMDB page for Andrew Kevin Walker, writer of this and other 90s staples FIGHT CLUB and SE7EN: http://www.imdb.com/name/<wbr />nm0001825/?ref_=tt_ov_wr. Here are two interesting articles about voyeurism in cinema, and a list of other films on the subject: https://mubi.com/<wbr />lists/a-hidden-eye-voyeurism-<wbr />surveillance-in-cinema, https:<wbr />//humanities.byu.edu/the-dual-<wbr />meaning-of-cinematic-voyeurism<wbr />, and http://www.tasteofcinema.<wbr />com/2015/25-great-voyeuristic-<wbr />movies. Finally, this is a good piece on social media and voyeurism, a subject on which we ended this week: http://www.sutherlandlabs.com/blog/social-media-and-a-culture-of-voyeurism