The film is definitely something I haven’t seen before, its
not your average predictable Hollywood blockbuster, instead it knits together
some very different stories to create a film where you are actively thinking
about how it all fits together.
The plot follows Marty (Farrell) a struggling alcoholic,
writer trying to finish his screenplay, "Seven Psychopaths" along
with his best friend, Billy (Rockwell) who is an unemployed actor and part time
dog thief, and wants to help Marty by keeping him focused and inspired by any
means necessary.
Hans (Walken) is Billy's dog-napping partner in crime,
he is an older religious man with a violent past, as we see later on in the
movie. Charlie (Harrelson) is the psychopathic gangster whose beloved dog,
Billy and Hans have just stolen. His unpredictable violence and obsessive love
for his dog creates the humorous baseline of the plot.
The film has elements resembeing Tarantino with its
ruthless black humour and excessive gore, although it is more then just an
imitation. There are smart references to lazy movie making, something that has
bceone the norm in Hollywood.
Also Billy (Rockwell) uses the film to deconstruct
classic movie conventions in a mocking way, claiming that anything is allowed
on screen as long as the animals survive.
The final supposed dramatic scene is the most average
shoot out ever known, which does well to create a kind of comedy only the more
avid movie lovers and also cinema cynics would understand.
If your bored of your standard movie sequence then
give Seven Psychopaths, as it will at the least provide you with some
new footage concepts.
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