Year: 1984
Duration: 01:39:23
Directed by: Tony Garnett
Actors: Karen Young, Clayton Day, Suzie Humphreys, Helena Humann
Language: English
Country: UK
Also known as: Deep in the Heart, Kathleen, Handgun – Der Waffennarr
Description: This is a real gem that not only supplies the cheap thrills we’ve grown accustomed to with this genre but also raises some very thought provoking arguments for and against gun control. Karen Young is simply superb as the vengeance seeking Kathleen though she is far too smart and resourceful to simply be labelled “the victim” in this film. Her acting is extremely realistic as well as Clayton Day who plays a first class A grade creep Larry who thinks there is absolutely nothing wrong with raping a woman senseless on a first date and expects another trip down memory lane a week later. In the meantime our heroine has bought herself a handgun and joined Larry’s gun club where she practises shooting at targets, presumably pretending they are testicles…
Review: The plot, which could be the basis for the usual speculative thriller about self-defense and counter-violence, is for the British director Tony Garnett’s just an excuse to create a kind of psychological research on the cult of weapons in American society. It is not known whether the director had in mind a reference to the great gun shooting scene in the film “Three Women” (1978) by Robert Altman. But his character is also transformed by taking first in the hands of a gun, gets firm, bitter, fierce in all his actions, eventually turning into almost the exact opposite of myself in the first half of the tape.
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