deadbull-95171 Review of White Rabbit

White Rabbit (I) (2013)

Schizoid bullied teenagers aren't a good fit with 10 gauge double barrels

[6/10 · 11 December 2020]

Better then I thought. Topical in an age when mass killing sprees are just another day in this ruined country. The film has decent character development, and plausibility, though the lead's final rage lacks the buildup you'd expect. In the "Joker", the developing psychosis is explored and the final rage explosion is anticipated. We know it 'll happen here too because the scripting allows no other possibility. It's well scripted, the supporting roles have more acting then the lead, and his relative lack of passion could be ascribed to a feature of schizoid dissociation, but movies like this play to an audience largely unversed in the subtler symptomology of psychotic and abused children. They CAN be emotionally dead. Yet his actions contradict emotional deadness, they are in fact driven and passionate, it's just the depth that's missing in what is largely an actorly film far more then a bang-bang flick. Still, it has enough coherence and integrity to more then hold your interest....disaster is imminent and stressed and inferred all the time....and the only part that confused me was the "revelation" about the lead's best friend, which sort of retrospectively authenticates his craziness which has already been established in other ways many times over.. But it is a craziness cleverly fused with many of the motives of a very normal teenager, the conflicts, the compulsion to obey an abusive parent, the initially suppressed reaction to the bullying..... So, a n interesting mixture of things here......worth it.