In 1967 I saw such work as concerned with case
studies» (later I realized I was dealing with religious autobiographies), not in order to draw conclusions but to understand how a person's destiny
unfolds, much as the destiny of
characters in our Western novels
unfolds.
Unfolding like Roman Polanski's take on «The King of Marvin Gardens» while simultaneously serving as a suitable spiritual sequel to the director's debut, «Afterschool,» in which the male desire to connect meaningfully with others is frayed and warped by life experience, «Simon Killer» is Antonio Campos» latest chilly, chilling
character study, with Corbet effectively replacing Ezra Miller, who led the previous film, as a neuroscience major who
studied how the eyes and the brain relate, but has a seriously loose wire between his own brain and his heart.