This week in the Deep Hurting Project: The Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson. I'm not sure why Daniel Farrands decided to go from acclaimed documentaries about slasher movies to movies bastardising famous true crime cases, but evidently that's what happened.
- Well, at least it's nice to know that "Happy Birthday" is now within the reach of even the cheapest and most incompetent filmmakers now.
- Huh. Nicole's evidently ambivalent about the fact that O.J.'s still stalking her and might kill her.
- I'm about a quarter of the way through this movie and I'm being given very little to work with. What makes the Nicole Brown of this movie any different from, well, any other characters with two X chromosomes? Besides being divorced from and possibly getting murdered by a celebrity, I mean.
- This movie's 85 minutes long. Do we have to take time out to explain how a burglar alarm works?
- Nicole's clearly in fear for her life, and I'm fairly certain she's mentioned this to Faye, so why is her default reaction to this situation "are you still fucking him?"
- I would not think the narcoleptic love child of Danny Elfman's Batman theme and Philip Glass' "Pruitt-Igoe" would be the best score for this random sex scene.
- Victim blaming for wearing a robe in her own home? No wonder NWA sang "fuck the police."
- Is this movie just a collection of random scenes of Nicole being paranoid whose only relevance to one another to show off just how doomed she is? Say what you will about Funny Games, it at least has the decency to adhere to some sort of narrative structure.
- I will say this for the movie, it's at least more tasteful about the presence of the Kardashian kids than the miniseries.
- Nicole's being attacked by a random supernatural force, even though there's been no mention of the supernatural before. Why the fuck not? Christ, even The Haunting of Sharon Tate set up its supernatural elements. Is this the sort of shit Mena Suvari's had to reduce herself to?
- So her being stalked is all down to her not letting go of OJ?
- You know, it took about 3/4 of the way for the movie for OJ to actually appear in this movie. I almost forgot I was supposed to be watching a shitty movie about the OJ Simpson case.
- Nicole knew the original German words to Brahms' lullaby?
- The painter from about an hour ago is apparently a serial killer. Why the fuck not? Honestly, if you're going to piss on Nicole Brown's grave like this, why not just make OJ into a more menacing villain? It doesn't help that the scene after this is revealed, she's murdered by a guy who clearly isn't the painter.
- And way to show graphic photos of the crime scene in the news footage that's clearly supposed to pad this movie out to 85 minutes.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.