this is not your avrage robin williams movie. there is no comedy well i gusse you have to do something diffrent sometime. but robin williams is an excdellent actor he made this role. this is a dark side of him that you never saw. this movie is creppy because of the events that happens in the movie could happen. this is a good movie. i recommend it for people the age of 16 and older
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Voyeur Thriller
Added 2/21/2010
One Hour Photo shows Robin Williams as Sy Parrish. The movie has Robin playing opposite his usual crazy character type and he pulls it off magnificently.
Sy Parrish worked 11 years at a One Hour Photo located in a Super Store that looks like a Wal-Mart. He lives a stark, lonely life working under fluorescent lights in a bright white and blue store with aisles and aisles of bargains, then he drives his small car home to a sterile apartment. Sy narrates the story that through our photographs we seem to live a happy, no-problem existence. No one takes photos of the things you don't want to remember. Time is held still in photos.
Sy has customers he describes and types of photos they take. It is a funny and wry way he observes what they deem important in life. Sy has lived a lonely life, no wife or sweetheart, but has lived vicariously through the young family of Nancy Yorkin (Connie Nelson) and her family. Sy has made a pretend life of being the loving Uncle to Jake Yorkin (Dylan Smith). Their home and family is beautiful, warm and welcoming as their many photos over the years have shown to Sy. Sy escapes his dreary life through their photos and his imagination. Sy makes extra copies of all the Yorkins' photographs over the years and has a wall showing the family growing from two to three with little Jake. Sy makes you feel somewhat uncomfortable as he strives to actually be part of the Yorkin's lives.
Because his judgement has been impaired and he has become unstable the boss at the store has to fire him. He is devastated, but realized from other photos that Mr. Yorkin, Jake's father, is having an affair and will cause sadness and disruption to the beautiful family he has. He develops a strange and disturbing plan to keep the family together and teach a moral lesson. He becomes cold and calculating, angry and determined to change the direction the family is headed.
The movie is excellent and Director Mike Romanek has created a masterful thriller featuring this sad, lonely photo developer yearning for his imaginary Uncle role to this beautiful happy family.
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A dark and dramatic masterpiece!
Added 2/20/2010
Indeed one of the very rare films of Robin Williams you will ever come across. Mr Williams totally and entirely different from the humorous and funny man we always knew or witnessed in certain films. To be honest, the film shaked me, shocked me by throwing light on some of the dark sides of human nature. Robin Williams is extremely brilliant, very impeccable in his role. Connie Nelson does an excellent work as well, the whole cast performence is pure perfection. A very rare film you will witness on screen, a film you will never easily forget infact its likely to make you think again and again. Worth a watch.
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excellent
Added 11/21/2009
Violent crime got so out of control from the 1970s into the mid 1990s, people did not care "why" anymore. All that attempted understanding and "rehibilitation" went out the window.
When you deal with a Manson or a Bin Ladin or just your garden veriaty sexual perditor, there is a lot of merit in this. These people are evil. You can't teach them empathy.
But Sy is not evil. He is just a sad, isolated man, one of those marginalized people who are so at a loss as to how to act, no one talks, or more importantly, listens to them. It is scary how many people there are like Sy, and how callously we dismiss them. What if someone had taken the time to be really nice to this guy?
Sy has had really awful things happen to him. He idealizes a family who's photos he develops, and wants to be part of this family. He is not even crazy, just very disturbed. He is like a child, and he sees this family as his embracing fantasy--fills in the blanks with his own yearnings. He does not want to harm, steal, violate or kill. His problem is he is completely incapable of conceiving of other people as intigrated and complex, becuase he is not.
Sy may not be a bad man, but does a very bad thing. He finds out the father in the family is having an affair, and terrorizes the couple.\
It is a good thing that Sy is caught: he is now off the street, where he can't escelate and really harm another.
One Hour Photo is unique among films of our era in that it makes you feel geniune pity for the perportrator. The movie does not excuse what he did, and again, we want guys like Sy in a place seperate from the rest of us--he did the crime and needs to deal with the consequences.
But Sy is also a product of consequences. No one talked to this man, threw him a rope, saw that he was going deep under and tried to do something. Had someone put an arm around him, took him for a coffee, would he have listened? I don't know, One Hour Photo shows how some people, left alone, can go from being strange to very, very sick--because no one payed attention when there was still time.
That is the real creepiness of One Hour Photo.
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A Comedian Who Can Be Effectively Serious
Added 3/31/2009
Robin Williams once again proves how good comedians can be at serious drama roles. Williams is especially adept at playing creepy characters, as he has done several times in the last 15 years.
Here, he plays "Sy, the photo guy," a lonely employee in the photo department of a suburban Target/Walt-Mart/K-Mart-whatever who lives vicariously through a nice family. Thepictures he has developed and printed for years makes him feel part of the family unit. So, when Sy discovers the husband of that family is cheating, he takes it personally....and gets involved.
This was a fascinating portrait of a deranged man and a wonderfully photographed movie. The colors in here are astounding at times and the camera-work innovative with some neat angles. The suspense of the story builds and builds one gets that old film-noir feeling of impending doom.
This has a different ending, though, than most old film noirs, not exactly what the viewer might think will happen.
This is a film that, as far I know, never got much publicity, but it's a gem. Williams is outstanding in his role and the hour-and-a-half you invest in this movie flies by. I'd love to see it on a sharp Blu-Ray transfer.
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this is not your avrage robin williams movie. there is no comedy well i gusse you have to do something diffrent sometime. but robin williams is an excdellent actor he made this role. this is a dark side of him that you never saw. this movie is creppy because of the events that happens in the movie could happen. this is a good movie. i recommend it for people the age of 16 and older
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Voyeur Thriller
Added 2/21/2010
One Hour Photo shows Robin Williams as Sy Parrish. The movie has Robin playing opposite his usual crazy character type and he pulls it off magnificently.
Sy Parrish worked 11 years at a One Hour Photo located in a Super Store that looks like a Wal-Mart. He lives a stark, lonely life working under fluorescent lights in a bright white and blue store with aisles and aisles of bargains, then he drives his small car home to a sterile apartment. Sy narrates the story that through our photographs we seem to live a happy, no-problem existence. No one takes photos of the things you don't want to remember. Time is held still in photos.
Sy has customers he describes and types of photos they take. It is a funny and wry way he observes what they deem important in life. Sy has lived a lonely life, no wife or sweetheart, but has lived vicariously through the young family of Nancy Yorkin (Connie Nelson) and her family. Sy has made a pretend life of being the loving Uncle to Jake Yorkin (Dylan Smith). Their home and family is beautiful, warm and welcoming as their many photos over the years have shown to Sy. Sy escapes his dreary life through their photos and his imagination. Sy makes extra copies of all the Yorkins' photographs over the years and has a wall showing the family growing from two to three with little Jake. Sy makes you feel somewhat uncomfortable as he strives to actually be part of the Yorkin's lives.
Because his judgement has been impaired and he has become unstable the boss at the store has to fire him. He is devastated, but realized from other photos that Mr. Yorkin, Jake's father, is having an affair and will cause sadness and disruption to the beautiful family he has. He develops a strange and disturbing plan to keep the family together and teach a moral lesson. He becomes cold and calculating, angry and determined to change the direction the family is headed.
The movie is excellent and Director Mike Romanek has created a masterful thriller featuring this sad, lonely photo developer yearning for his imaginary Uncle role to this beautiful happy family.
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A dark and dramatic masterpiece!
Added 2/20/2010
Indeed one of the very rare films of Robin Williams you will ever come across. Mr Williams totally and entirely different from the humorous and funny man we always knew or witnessed in certain films. To be honest, the film shaked me, shocked me by throwing light on some of the dark sides of human nature. Robin Williams is extremely brilliant, very impeccable in his role. Connie Nelson does an excellent work as well, the whole cast performence is pure perfection. A very rare film you will witness on screen, a film you will never easily forget infact its likely to make you think again and again. Worth a watch.
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