Based on what I just watched, I’m feeling a little bit uncomfortable. Compliance is a highly controversial film that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year, and I’m starting to get what the hoopla was all about. Watch the trailer with me, and perhaps we can figure out if this is a work of art, or just another film where a defenseless young woman gets the worst kind of treatment.
Compliance: First Trailer
And here’s the report from IndieWire:
No film stirred up controversy and got the critics raving at this year’s Sundance Film Festival quite like Craig Zobel’s shocking thriller “Compliance.”
His sophomore feature (following “Great World of Sound”) follows the sensationalistic story of a fast-food restaurant manager who receives a call from a man claiming to be a police officer. Through a strange process of manipulation, the caller convinces staffers to place a co-worker accused of theft in quarantine, strip-search her and commit other invasive procedures that culminate with sexual assault. Zobel based the film on a real-life incident, but that didn’t seem to quell the audience at its premiere in Park City, where several people accused Zobel of misogyny during the Q&A while others spoke out in his defense.
Read more here.
I can see how, based on the description, Compliance might be read as misogynistic, but I’m excited to see the entire film before I make such a determination. Based on the trailer, it looks like a good movie with a fantastic plot. The true story also inspired an episode of Law & Order: SVU.
It will be especially interesting to see how everyone who didn’t make it to Sundance reacts to this film. Any initial thoughts based on the trailer?
Compliance opens in theatres on August 17.
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