-Satyanarayana Raju
Based on William Diehl’s novel, Gregory Hoblit has provided the movie watching fraternity one of the best psychological thrillers. He succeeds in holding onto the suspense till the last second and the ending will blow you away.
Movie starts off with Aaron Stampler (Edward Norton) being arrested for the gruesome murder of archbishop along with the murder weapon. A never beaten attorney Martin Vail (Richard Gere) takes up the case to defend Aaron, an innocent altar boy who stutters. With all the evidences against Aaron, Vail fails to convince the jury that Stampler and his girlfriend were the victims in the situation as they were sexually abused by the archbishop. As the trial progresses, Vail is shocked to discover the soft spoken Aaron transforming into a violent personality calling himself as Roy, who admits to have committed the crime. Aaron reveals that he has no memory of the happenings when he is Roy. Hoblit has put in immense efforts in the very real and convincing scenes where Aaron transforms himself to Roy. Vail creates a situation for the prosecutor Janet Venable (Laura Linney) to provoke Aaron so that he transforms himself to Roy in the court and the Jury is convinced that Aaron is suffering from Multiple personality disorder and he be sent to a mental hospital and not jail.
As the final scene rolls, Vail meets Aaron and the suspense is revealed which will blow you away. You have to be seated till the end of the movie and once the suspense is revealed in the last minute of the movie, I can picture you guys in shock and awe with your jaws dropped and thinking about the whole story again as it has done to the audience for the past 14 years since 1996.
Richard Gere and Laura Linney complement each other and do a commendable job as ex-lovers and as defense attorney and prosecutor. But the movie belongs completely to Edward Norton. Norton’s career was launched and it rocketed sky high with his stupendous performance as the innocent Aaron and violent Roy. He won 8 awards for this role out of 12 major nominations in 1996 and Hollywood got itself a new villain.
This movie is worth your collection and recommended for all occasions.
THINK ABOUT IT: Deewangee (Ajay Devgn, Urmila and Akshay Khanna) is a very bad copy of Primal Fear. The suspense is revealed in the first half of the movie itself (what a shame) so that they could incorporate some song sequences in the movie. When will these Hindi Movie directors who copy movies from Hollywood ever learn the art of story telling?
Based on William Diehl’s novel, Gregory Hoblit has provided the movie watching fraternity one of the best psychological thrillers. He succeeds in holding onto the suspense till the last second and the ending will blow you away.Movie starts off with Aaron Stampler (Edward Norton) being arrested for the gruesome murder of archbishop along with the murder weapon. A never beaten attorney Martin Vail (Richard Gere) takes up the case to defend Aaron, an innocent altar boy who stutters. With all the evidences against Aaron, Vail fails to convince the jury that Stampler and his girlfriend were the victims in the situation as they were sexually abused by the archbishop. As the trial progresses, Vail is shocked to discover the soft spoken Aaron transforming into a violent personality calling himself as Roy, who admits to have committed the crime. Aaron reveals that he has no memory of the happenings when he is Roy. Hoblit has put in immense efforts in the very real and convincing scenes where Aaron transforms himself to Roy. Vail creates a situation for the prosecutor Janet Venable (Laura Linney) to provoke Aaron so that he transforms himself to Roy in the court and the Jury is convinced that Aaron is suffering from Multiple personality disorder and he be sent to a mental hospital and not jail.
As the final scene rolls, Vail meets Aaron and the suspense is revealed which will blow you away. You have to be seated till the end of the movie and once the suspense is revealed in the last minute of the movie, I can picture you guys in shock and awe with your jaws dropped and thinking about the whole story again as it has done to the audience for the past 14 years since 1996.
Richard Gere and Laura Linney complement each other and do a commendable job as ex-lovers and as defense attorney and prosecutor. But the movie belongs completely to Edward Norton. Norton’s career was launched and it rocketed sky high with his stupendous performance as the innocent Aaron and violent Roy. He won 8 awards for this role out of 12 major nominations in 1996 and Hollywood got itself a new villain.
This movie is worth your collection and recommended for all occasions.
THINK ABOUT IT: Deewangee (Ajay Devgn, Urmila and Akshay Khanna) is a very bad copy of Primal Fear. The suspense is revealed in the first half of the movie itself (what a shame) so that they could incorporate some song sequences in the movie. When will these Hindi Movie directors who copy movies from Hollywood ever learn the art of story telling?
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