LONG DISTANCE

Overall Score: 6/10

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Summary: It was never about me. It was always about you.

 

Long Distance is the tale of a tortured mind and troubled youth who cannot face reality. Adistraught grad student, Nicole Freeman (Monica Keena from The Devil's Advocate and Dawson's Creek) working on her thesis.
A no longer a teen not quite a woman type whose unfaithful boyfriend Chris left her and mother figures it's her fault.
Who feels estranged from the rest of the world for reasons unknown, likely due to the breakup.
When trying to call her mother, she accidentally misdials the number of a strange man named Joe (Kevin Chapman from The Boondock Saints, The Cider House Rules, Blow, "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation", Mystic River, 21 Grams, "24") Wow this guy has been in a lot of good stuff.

When a policeman (Ivan Martin from.. umm.. well, nothing I recognized), anyway he arrive the next day to inform Nicole that a murder has occured from the house of Joe,
we begin to piece together a puzzle of terror as she tries to stop him from killing again,
as he makes his way across the country to her doorstep.

Conceptually though the movie is interesting. Winding right when you think it's going
to go over the edge of mediocrity, a car climbing a twisting mountain at night, encased in fog.
They bring in a profiler (Tamala Jones from Booty Call, Head of State, and One on One), to help catch the killer known only as "Joe". She talks of Freud, freedom,
and the shadows we cast, a choice of words I found intriguing.

The sound effects sounded like maybe they were chosen by Roger Waters in a small EMI studio, circa 1968.

The music is really innovative and ambient. The kind of movie I'd own the soundtrack to but never the movie.

The Achilles heal of Long Distance is the dialog, but when you figure it out it starts to make more sense why the film works so well conceptually, but not emotionally. Symbolically, but not literally.

 

Trivia Nicole's thesis is on Predictive models of individual's rage in group behavior.