Inside [Blu-Ray]

this movie is a work of art. The special features are a nice touch. If you're a fan of willem dafoe you'll love this

The great novelist John Gardner (October Light, etc.), in his book on how to become a novelist, says that your readers will forgive you one implausible plot development, but don't push it beyond that. Well, the people making INSIDE must not have known this. Like most folks who watch INSIDE, I'm a great fan of Willem Dafoe. But what was he thinking when he signed up for this travesty? Brief plot: Dafoe is a thief (with outside accomplices) who breaks into a highly secure penthouse apartment in a large city, intent on stealing several artworks. But he stays too long, the security system kicks in, his "pals" abandon him, and he is locked in, evidently, until the owner returns --- months in the future (we are led to believe). There is virtually no food in the apartment, a few fish in an aquarium, very little water (the owner turned off the water) --- but somehow a small sprinkler system still works for several plants and small trees (quite a fancy place with 20-foot ceilings). Dafoe manages to damage the thermostat right away, so that for a number of days the temperature is over 100 degrees F and then, mysteriously, it drops into the 30s. But, come on! The guy might survive the temperature swings, but month after month with NO FOOD?!? And, in an apartment building with extensive security and numerous service people, there is absolutely no monitoring system to indicate that this particular apartment may have a fire in it (at one point, Dafoe manages, with a cigarette lighter, to fool the apartment's sprinkler system into thinking that the place is on fire, thus drenching it in water --- no leaks to the floors below, of course, screenwriters). I'm starting to drive myself nuts trying to remember several other preposterous plot developments (saw the movie about a month ago). Watch the thing yourself and make your own list! I give it two stars instead of one, Dafoe's performance being very impressive in spite of the absurd plot. Certainly, the basic idea could've been fleshed out and written in a much more believable form.*Wait a minute! Maybe Dafoe dies in the first 20 minutes, and the remaining two hours are just a fantasy occurring in his dying brain? Kinda like the last 5 minutes of Scorsese's masterpiece TAXI DRIVER.

A willem dafoe masterpiece. Nuff' said

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I honestly can't believe I watched the whole thing. I guess I actually didn't because the last 30 minutes I had my finger on the "skip forward 10 seconds button" and you could watch the whole movie that way. What a stupid movie.