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- 2002
- Exile Pictures
- 1 h 30 m
- 2002
- Exile Pictures
- 1 h 30 m
Summary Inspired by the life and death of his girlfriend's schizophrenic brother, writer/director Tim McCann's second feature film is an unflinching and riveting depiction of a young man's descent into a schizophrenic madness.
Directed By: Tim McCann
Written By: Tim McCann
- 2002
- Exile Pictures
- 1 h 30 m
- 2002
- Exile Pictures
- 1 h 30 m
Revolution #9
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Summary Inspired by the life and death of his girlfriend's schizophrenic brother, writer/director Tim McCann's second feature film is an unflinching and riveting depiction of a young man's descent into a schizophrenic madness.
Directed By: Tim McCann
Written By: Tim McCann
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Generally Favorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
63
80% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
20% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Just about everyone in this sharp, passionate feature is chillingly good.
Revolution #9, which is absorbing and terse, has some subtle, welcome comic relief from Spalding Gray.
Looks with fresh eyes at a new millennium in which, seemingly, the entire world is bought and sold in neatly wrapped packages engineered for mass consumption.
By alternating between Jackson's and Kim's point of view, McCann shows both sides of the story: the panicky fear of the paranoid schizophrenic -- the arrhythmic editing and Marshall Grupp's masterful sound design convey a sense of dislocation and shifting reality -- and the bewilderment and frustration of the people who try to help him.
McCann's point of view overwhelms the human elements of his story, but this is, nonetheless, a riveting piece of filmmaking.
Though woefully oblique and underdeveloped, writer-director Tim McCann's Revolution #9 attempts the difficult task of burrowing into the fractured mind of a modern man who loses his grip on reality.
So riddled with unanswered questions that it requires gargantuan leaps of faith just to watch it plod along, while McCann's overly broad strokes miss crucial details as he tries to mount an attack on both the power of the media and an indifferent medical profession.
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