By Robert Scucci
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At 36, I am finally at this time of my life when teenagers are starting to scare me. Of course, I do not quite occupy a territory “old man screams on the cloud”, but if I walk alone in a street in the city and I see a pile of young whippersnappers who come to me, I do not would not put in front of me to meet on the other side of the road and put my hood until the horrible scenario that is played in my head breathes. While I talk to the hyperbole for a good laugh, I have to point out your attention on the years 1986 River bankwhich will validate my paranoia mentioned above, because this film has some of the worst adolescents that you will never see in a police drama.
Children are not good
River bank Starts with a murder, and somehow manages to spend the next 90 minutes to worsen exponentially. We are first presented to Tim (Joshua John Miller), a degenerate pre-adolescent who testifies to John (Daniel Roebuck) sitting next to the naked corpse of his girlfriend, Jamie (Danyi Deats), near the river where he strangled her to death.
When the news of Jamie’s death, John’s friends Matt (Keanu Reeves), Clarissa (Ione Skye Leitch), Maggie (Roxana Zal) and Tony (Josh Richman), have contradictory feelings of wanting to get involved in the discovery of Tim. Layne (Crispin Glover), on the other hand, believes that he is his duty to help an indifferent John to get rid of the body of Jamie and to help him died in the rights after a simple investigation.
Keanu Reeves was still a good guy at the time
Although each character in River bank Generally a disabled and apathetic face, Keanu Reeves“Matt is the only character who seems to have a conscience, while he tries to distant himself from Layne, who is ready to stop nothing to cleanse John’s disorder. Despite Matt’s discomfort with the idea of throwing his friends under the bus, he finally denounced the authorities to what is happening and tries to keep a low profile while the investigation into the murder warms up.
Meanwhile, Layne heads for a local drug trafficker named house (Dennis Hopper) from Feck, so John has a place to go to bed while they determine their next movements.
Feck, who formerly referred to killing her own girlfriend in the past, is a shell of her old self because his vague story of events suggests that he had no choice but to do what he had to Doing, and guilt has slowly consumed it for years. John, who shows no emotion throughout the whole of River bank is clearly a psychopath who has no regret to kill Jaime, and Feck is shaken to his heart more he gets to know the adolescent in difficulty he hides in his house – an important comparison if we consider the conflictual feeling of morality that these two characters have.
Apathy with a discomfort side
River bank is a film of a slice of life on a group of adolescents in difficulty left to themselves when their parents are mainly absent, and how they try to manage a situation that exceeds their extent of reason or its ability to cope with the students of Secondary who have a friend who is potentially about to become a serial killer. Although the body of the first act is sufficiently disturbing, the level of indifference that this group of friends gives off when they discover that it is one of their friends is the most terrifying thing of all.
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