{"id":16018,"date":"2015-07-27T19:38:23","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T23:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=16018"},"modified":"2020-07-29T11:07:55","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T15:07:55","slug":"the-demolisher-2015-fantasia-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/27\/the-demolisher-2015-fantasia-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"The Demolisher (2015) [Fantasia Film Festival]"},"content":{"rendered":"

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FANTASIA FILM FESTIVAL<\/strong><\/p>\n

I really do want to see more from Canadian director Gabriel Carrer, mainly because \u201cThe Demolisher\u201d brought back waves of Nicholas Winding Refn and Michael Mann with it. \u201cThe Demolisher\u201d is a slow burn and really stellar revenge thriller that picks up after an admittedly sluggish first half hour. \u201cThe Demolisher\u201d picks up steam and collides in to an all out assault of blood shed, gore, and violence that help to explore the crumbling of a man\u2019s sanity. Evocative of films like \u201cMs. 45\u201d and \u201cDeath Wish,\u201d Carrer channels the idea of trauma and its lasting effects and how it can toy with one man\u2019s idea of justice for his beloved wife.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ry Barnett plays Bruce, a man who is haunted by his wife\u2019s crippling injury during the line of duty. She\u2019s painfully dependent on Bruce to feed and care for her, and he vows to go out and find the people that crippled her. The individuals in question are a gang with a gorilla plastered on their clothing, and every night Bruce patrols the streets looking for the insignia. But his crumbling sanity, matched with his guilt make him a definitely delusional and paranoid individual who begins to consider that perhaps he may just be imagining culprits at every turn. The audience follows along with Bruce as he guns down and beats alleged criminals, all the while encasing himself in a SWAT uniform that ensures he can roam around unharmed.<\/p>\n

Barnett\u2019s performance is fascinating, as he slowly unravels in to this mad maniacal monster of a man who begins losing his senses and doesn\u2019t know how to bring himself back from the brink. His wife loathes his quest for vengeance but she doesn\u2019t exactly seek to stop him either, also desperate for vengeance against the gang that crippled her. Twists and turns are brought about in the second half when Bruce catches young Marie pawning a necklace he\u2019s convinced belonged to his wife, and suddenly sees her as a threat. What begins as a mere mission transforms in to a fight for survival between the two. Bruce suddenly is hell bent on finding and killing Marie, who turns out to be much more resourceful than he ever realized.<\/p>\n

Carrer implements wonderful direction to unfold the compelling last hour with great implementation of slow motion, as well as a sharp soundtrack that helps magnify the tension involved in the battle between Bruce and Marie. Carrer uses these devices throughout the majority of the film, preferring to show rather than tell, and rarely ever exercises verbal exposition. We know something heinous happened to Bruce\u2019s wife, and it unfolds through nightmarish visions, and flashbacks. It\u2019s also amplified by Bruce\u2019s unbearable guilt and self disgust that prompts him to beat himself up whenever he\u2019s failed to find someone to unleash his fury on. Carrer is a talented visionary, and \u201cThe Demolisher\u201d is a unique, intense, and often times very compelling analysis on the nature of revenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FANTASIA FILM FESTIVAL I really do want to see more from Canadian director Gabriel Carrer, mainly because \u201cThe Demolisher\u201d brought back waves of Nicholas Winding Refn and Michael Mann with it. \u201cThe Demolisher\u201d is a slow burn and really stellar revenge thriller that picks up after an admittedly sluggish first half hour. \u201cThe Demolisher\u201d picks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2497,1284,12],"tags":[240,249,302,391,840,1087],"class_list":["post-16018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasia-fest","category-festivalsevents","category-movie-reviews","tag-crime","tag-d","tag-drama","tag-gangster","tag-revenge","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16020,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16018\/revisions\/16020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}