![]() ![]() What is impressive is that Winterbottom achieves this sense of utter revulsion with visuals that are in fact no more explicit than the glamorised gore of many mainstream thrillers. In fact, this is exactly what I had done – flinching from the screen at the sheer horror of what was being depicted. In response, Winterbottom argued that such acts should be repugnant, and that his intention had been to make the audience want to look away. My good friend and colleague Simon Mayo (whose opinion I respect) found the film vile and misogynist, an opinion that he put to Winterbottom when he came on our Radio 5 show. Within this context, I understand entirely why Michael Winterbottom's film has so offended some viewers. All too often film-makers use women as props to be leered at, with glamorised assault a depressingly regular selling point. ![]() As with the source novel, the psychopathic violence depicted in The Killer Inside Me is both disturbing and problematic. ![]()
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