what ever happened to the mcdonalds employee who was assaulted because of a prank phone call
Would have worked better as a documentary
The well-nigh interesting thing almost COMPLIANCE is that it's based on a true story, something that really did happen in a Us branch of McDonald's, and that story is well worth investigating considering it'due south a unbelievably jaw-dropping example of human stupidity. Sadly, this drama fails to tell the story in an interesting or indeed believable way.
Yous sense from the outset that writer/managing director Craig Zobel is struggling with his textile, searching for sympathetic characters but failing to find them, and actually getting out of his depth when it comes to the pacing. The starting time half isn't then bad, but the narrative falls apart completely in the second, leading up to an ending which is a severe disappointment, leaving y'all thinking "that's it?". The thing that does salvage COMPLIANCE is that the acting is pretty decent, particularly then given the unknown nature of those involved. Dreama Walker deserves near credit in her challenging part every bit put-upon employee Becky, just Ann Dowd and Bill Camp are every bit impressive.
I'll admit that COMPLIANCE tells a horrifying tale only I recollect Zobel would have done much better by presenting the tale as a straight documentary a la BLACKFISH or THE IMPOSTER instead of this poorly-attempted narrative stuff. Every bit it stands, and as a moving-picture show, this is severely defective.
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An Ugly Subject
Compliance (2012)
*** (out of 4)
Based on a true story about a fast food manager (Ann Dowd) who receives a phone call from a police officer saying that i of the employees (Dreama Walker) has stolen some coin from a customer. The officer so tells the manager to take the daughter into her office, strip search her and so hold her there until the police can come up get her. COMPLIANCE is a picture show that has fabricated many people angry and the reports of walk-outs were rather shocking to run across considering you lot have to wonder why people would buy a ticket for a moving-picture show like this so get upset. I had the misfortune of living in Mount Washington, KY for a few years and this is where the original incident took identify. It was at a McDonald'southward that I've eaten at and I fifty-fifty knew of the people involved in the case. Because the "type" of town this place was information technology never really shocked me that something like this could happen only apparently it has happened all over the land. Yes, the subject matter is ugly and yes it'due south incredible that anyone could be so stupid to allow this to happen merely it's all based on fact that people tin bank check out. This film is a pretty ugly but I say that in a good way because with a subject like this there's really no style to paint information technology as something skilful so I admire the writer-manager for just going strongly at the subject. Both Dowd and Walker turn in excellent performances as does the rest of the supporting cast. Again, the subject matter is but so crazy that it has to exist true or else you lot'd start screaming at your television over the characters doing such stupid things. I still take a lot of questions over the bodily case and specially consider the character of some involved. Having followed the case in that location were some major things that I felt were left out but this has lilliputian to do with this film. As a film I think it's very effective and ugly just as it should exist. I could debate for years about what really happened and what one would practise if they were ever in a like circumstance.
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icky movie
Sandra (Ann Dowd) is a fast nutrient restaurant manager and Becky (Dreama Walker) is one of her workers. It'due south a busy place. They get pranked past a caller pretending to be the police. First Becky is detained, then slowly the workers are coerced into strip searching her.
This was a very disturbing movie. Information technology'due south impossible to sit all the fashion thru. Information technology was truly squirm worthy. Dreama Walker created a grapheme that is besides confident. The main question hither is 'Is information technology exploitative?'. I recollect information technology is. Some of the nudity could be tamped down. It'southward not necessary to advance the story. Merely I practise empathize they used it to disturb the audience. In that, they achieved their goal.
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At best a missed opportunity; at worst it is shamelessly tawdry in its construct and commitment
As hard as it will be to believe, this film is very closely based on a real outcome. A homo saying he is a police officer calls a fast food restaurant and gets i of the cashiers brought into the back room past her manager. She is defendant of theft and the officer needs the managing director to agree her in the room until he can become there. He also needs her to check her handbag. And take her telephone. And search her pockets. The manager complies and one footstep at a time things become terribly worse for anybody.
This film had potential. The title suggests that we are looking at the thought of compliance with authority figures and, in gild to do that, we will use a real situation to investigation why this occurs. Sadly the film doesn't practice any of this and instead simply plays out the existent incident without much intelligent to say almost it other than telling us it happened. There isn't fifty-fifty discussion after the fact because the ending is spent tying up the mystery (such as it is) in a way that doesn't satisfy and seems tacked on. This lack of insight or commentary is a problem but nosotros are all the same left with a recreation of sorts – and this is at least delivered with a bit of a sense of tension at get-go. I say at first non because information technology flops in the 2d half but considering for information technology this was replaced by something else – a feeling of the flick putting me in the same place equally the prank caller, and not in a meaningful way.
The film pushes the sexual textile on us in a way it didn't demand to. The lead daughter is not manifestly, but blonde with a bully effigy and the camera doesn't shame away from letting usa meet it. Nor does it allow her intermission down as the detective reviewing the video at the end of the picture show tells us she did (crying and begging), instead information technology keeps her together so that the viewer doesn't feel pushed away past her raw and shredded emotions. Information technology is a very odd series of decisions and I would like to think they were non deliberate but it is difficult when they line up and then finer. The cast mostly do not explore their situations or reasons and, although they follow events, none of them really gave me much beyond what was on the page.
The film does deliver the real events pretty straight but I wondered why it didn't seem to add much to them. There is nothing really in the way of insight or commentary here – the plot plays out and and then ends. While doing it though, the picture likewise seems to enjoy the nudity and the sexuality of the lead actress and prevents her from breaking down while as well giving her breasts and trunk plenty of direct line of sight. The motion-picture show already felt empty and like a missed opportunity – but this just added tawdry to the list.
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Exercise you accept Walter Raleigh in a can
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The era of crank telephone calls has certain taken a twist. When fast food eatery manager (Ann Dowd) gets a telephone call from someone identifying himself as policeman, she springs into activeness. Young Becky is accused of stealing from a customer. The assistance of the manager and others in this matter grows until it becomes inane. The film brings low-cal to the problem of serial strip search crank calls...something I didn't know existed. This film is based on the Mountain Washington, Kentucky incident which BTW was a McDonald'due south.
The film acting was okay. At that place is a high perv cistron whenever you strength a young girl to exist stripped searched. Unfortunately this is pretty much the entire film as in that location is no real subplot to entertain us. This is one of those pervert films masquerading as something that makes a argument such as "Shame." Watch it. Savor it. Disturbing? Thought provoking? Oh Please. It'southward soft core porn.
Parental Guidance: F-bombs, nudity (Dreama Walker).
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Don't always exercise what the dainty officer says
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Dutiful, simply naïve fast food manager Sandra (a strong and credible performance by Ann Dowd) receives a phone phone call from a man claiming to be a police officeholder (a creepy plough past Pat Healy) who informs Sandra that employee Becky (a fine and appealing portrayal by Dreama Walker) has stolen money from a costumer. Things get viscid when the fake cop guy begins telling Sandra and other folks to practise things that cross the line between correct and wrong.
Writer/manager Craig Zobel relates the absorbing story at a constant pace, takes time to flesh out the ii main characters, grounds the gripping and disturbing premise in a thoroughly plausible workaday reality, generates a good deal of tension, and, almost chiefly, makes a stiff and provocative indicate on the potential perils inherent in blindly following authority no questions asked. Moreover, this film acquires an extra chilling edge from the fact that information technology's based on a harrowing existent-life incident and that everything that occurs in the narrative is within the realm of possibility.
Dowd and Walker both exercise sterling work in their demanding roles; they receive sturdy back up from Philip Ettinger every bit the incredulous Kevin, Ashlie Atkinson as harried shift supervisor Marti, Beak Military camp equally the laid-back Van, Nikiya Mathis every bit the sassy Connie, and Stephen Payne every bit the crusty Harold. Both Andrew Stone'due south sharp widescreen cinematography and Heather McIntosh'southward spare moody score are up to par. Unsettling for certain, but undeniably effective just the same.
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Seemingly a moving picture that didn't demand to exist made.
I came across it on Amazon streaming movies. I learned it is based on real events that happened to an eighteen-twelvemonth-old girl in Kentucky in 2004.
Hither's what happens in Compliance: A human being calls a fast-nutrient restaurant and tells the manager that he's a cop and that an employee has stolen from a customer. Before the stop of the picture, the caller persuades the manager to strip-search the suspect. He also talks another character into committing a sexual act, demanding oral sex.
The film depicts all that, I am amazed that the people involved would actually trust someone on the telephone who tells him he is a cop. As sad as the real incident was I cannot see any reason the scout the 90 minute movie depicting all that.
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Effective in what it does.
One very busy day at a fictional fast-food eating house, the harried manager (the great character actress Ann Dowd) gets a call from an "Officer Daniels" (Pat Healy). Daniels claims that attractive blonde employee Becky (Dreama Walker) has stolen from a customer, and spends practically the whole day and night getting the manager and various others to practice some very unpleasant things, supposedly in the proper name of helping to incriminate Becky.
While watching this, the viewer is apt to call back that NONE of this SHOULD ring true, except that this film is a dramatization of similar incidents that happened in real life (70 times in 30 states, co-ordinate to the text at the stop). The viewer is and so apt to ponder the abject stupidity of his or her fellow human. Overall, the film devastatingly illustrates the blind trust that some of us place in figures of authority. Some of united states automatically get nervous whenever confronted past someone "official", and have an instinct to obey.
But, one would retrieve, common sense would take over at some betoken. And this "officer" (we see this character at home, calmly putting all of his victims through pure Hell, especially poor Becky) is always able to get them to practise ridiculous things. It isn't until an anile franchise employee (Stephen Payne) puts his pes down that people start to seriously question the caller.
It might be hard for some viewers to truly bask this, but yours truly was riveted as this ugly nightmare played out. Even though the characters might be infuriating, all the actors involved practice a proficient task, and screenwriter / director Craig Zobel gives the presentation pretty straightforward treatment, with very little in the way of "bells and whistles".
"Compliance" does accept to get a debit, however, for that lousy music score.
7 out of ten.
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I Believe It
"Compliance" is a movie that requires RAMPANT stupidity and naivete. I don't call up it is calculable the amount of pure unadulterated stupidity that is required for the events of this motion picture to occur. What's sad is that I believe that such events could occur. I do believe that y'all could easily get iv or five morons to go along with such a patently illegal and perverse plot.
If yous haven't watched it, it'south about a twisted pervert who poses every bit a police officeholder over the phone and accuses an employee (Dreama Walker) of stealing coin. In nigh places a stunt similar this could terminal about 30 seconds, just in this anonymous rinky-dink town in Ohio information technology went on for hours. All information technology took was a naive eating place manager (Ann Dowd) and about four equally idiotic others to get a total grown woman to strip and put herself through utter humiliation for some money that was allegedly stolen.
"Compliance" tells a sad tale of the human willingness to obey authorization to any extent. And information technology portrays several individuals who, if a cistron pool needs to be erased from existence, theirs certainly does--starting with the store manager, Sandra (Ann Dowd).
A very authoritative sounding man pretended to be a cop investigating a theft at a ChickWich (a cheaper Chick Fil-A type eatery). He made all of his accusations over the telephone while a very compliant manager aided him in his investigation. The "investigation" should've been over the moment he asked Sandra to check Becky's (Dreama Walker) stuff, merely it wasn't. When the investigation got to the point of a strip search that Sandra and her shift supervisor, Marti (Ashlie Atkinson), both sat in on, there were no more limits to how far these imbeciles would become to comply with authority.
I've rated this movie highly because it stirred and disturbed me deeply. I have no problem saying that I was triggered by this movie. I hated every aspect of what was going on, yet I was impressed how this movie could rouse me to such heights of anger without being propagandistic or apparently trash. I think this movie accomplished what it fix out to do, even if it was just to get people angry and call the characters s**t-for-brains. Just I practice believe the moving picture had a bigger aim, which was to show how easily people will comply with the almost absurd demands of authority, and I, for one, believe it.
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Very interesting theme but not enough substance for a total-length film
A manager of a fast-food eating place gets a telephone call from a man who tells her one of her staff has stolen money from a customer. The caller identifies himself as a police officer and then gives the manager instructions on how to question the employee. Every bit the conversation progresses the instructions get more than invasive.
A film with a very interesting central theme: how much would you blindly trust and comply with authority, or someone purporting to be in authority? That question is initially well explored with some interesting and idea-provoking plot developments. Quite engaging too, equally you lot are substantially forced to project your own views into how you react to the developments. I know I was certainly incredibly annoyed with the people involved!
All the same, the bespeak is made pretty quickly, after which things just go in circles. The problem is that at that place's not enough substance in the moving picture for a full-length pic - this would have made a bully curt.
This is evidenced past the demands and developments becoming more and more than absurd. Quite chop-chop you recall "Surely nobody would retrieve that's a legitimate pedagogy from a law officer?", notwithstanding they do, and the next instruction is so even more ludicrous. The film loses credibility quite quickly.
There is an attempt to tie everything upwardly at the end and come upwards with something profound but that seems half-broiled.
Disappointing.
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Angered me for the wrong reasons.
Thing I tin say about this movie is that it seriously angered me while I was watching but not for any of the right reasons though.
Watching stupid people doing stupid things, that's how I would sum this movie up. I merely couldn't believe how far this guy could take things and how hands and willingly people complied, from pretty much the early start on already. It was crazy to sentinel and it honestly prevented me from e'er getting into this motion-picture show and experience for its chief characters.
And yes, of grade I realize all of this truly happened so I also therefore don't call information technology unrealistic but that doesn't take abroad annihilation from the fact that this movie still felt like such a stupid 1. Watching people exercise things like this is in no mode a fun or intriguing experience, not fifty-fifty on a social experiment type of level.
You could definitely see and take this movie as a social study, that shows how hands people can be influenced and talked into doing some things which under no other normal circumstances they would ever concord to practise. But I just could never relish or take this movie in such a way, just because I couldn't feel for its principal characters and the movie never gave me a true good sense of what was going on in their heads, every bit a expert movie of this sort should ever be capable of. Because of that, the moving picture but never worked on an emotional level for me neither, since I never felt any involvement with its characters, or any of the events.
So for me personally, this movie was existence a fleck of a shallow and i notation experience. I tin definitely however see why some people would still 'similar' this pic and accept information technology for what information technology is only information technology just angered me too much to ever fully capeesh it, on any level.
v/10
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I Know What I'd Exercise in the Same State of affairs -- Don't We Always?
A harrowing and absorbing thriller well-nigh a prank call from hell.
Prank call is too light a phrase for the hoax at the center of this picture, a hoax that results in a immature woman being sexually assaulted. It seems that every movie these days is based on truthful events, or claims to be, but "Compliance" is one of the few that seems to earn the boast. Based on what I've read nearly the actual incident on which this film is based, the motion picture sticks pretty close to events every bit they played out in real life. A young woman working in a fast-nutrient restaurant is accused by a caller identifying himself as a police officer of stealing from a customer. The shop's managing director is asked to detain the woman in a back room and to subject area her to increasingly humiliating and ultimately illegal procedures in the proper noun of law and justice. Quite a fence seems to exist swirling around the Internet customs about how believable the flick is, nearly how all of the characters are stupid for falling for this play tricks, how if the viewers were in the same position they would never allow events to play out the way they do. Merely that of course is what'south so fascinating about the movie -- how far will basically decent people go when faced with authorization? How can whatever of usa know what we would really do unless we were in the state of affairs ourselves?
Ann Dowd, who plays the store manager, gives a tremendous performance equally a archetype example of picayune middle direction -- a person of probably limited education and abilities but who is pretty competent at her job, who's not a bad person merely who is hands persuaded to be a bully when bullied herself. I'm not exaggerating when I say that Dowd deserved awards attention for this motion-picture show. It'south a fascinating character -- a woman with no real villainous tendencies who ends upwardly being the movie's bad guy.
This flick flew right under the radar, and information technology'due south an example of why I'thou willing to wade through the generally dispensable fare available via Netflix's streaming service -- every so frequently you'll find a subconscious gem.
Grade: A
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Yes, 2 rashers of salary....
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A fast food eatery manager, Sandra, gets a telephone call from a man challenge to exist a police force officer who claims that one of her female employees has stolen from a customer.
Sandra takes Becky, to a back room to search her before she is picked up.
One time at that place, the caller manipulates the personnel into participating in Becky'due south sexual humiliation that grows more than twisted with every new caller on the telephone.
Merely when one last person has the conscience to question the caller, do they realise the crime they were tricked into.....
Even though its a tense watch, and everyone in the film is truly great, one cannot help but think how stupid these people are. Did Sandra non think to wait until a real policeman arrived, or not to speak to her area director who was supposedly with the officer?
Its a motion-picture show that will go you frustrated, Becky could take refused to accept off her clothes or to perform the acts, and actually, Sandra'south fiancée could have but put the phone downward.
Merely this is the point of the motion picture, its to brand yous get a reaction, and I had ane almost as soon as Sandra took Becky into the back. How on earth did she become a manager of anything, non using common sense?
All in all, its a fascinating movie, but its very difficult to watch, and information technology volition leave you a little angry.
Its done its intended job..
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Yes, it happened. No, it's not that interesting. Perhaps if Zobel had any insight into the state of affairs...
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Viewers of this film will inevitably, at some bespeak, say (well-nigh inevitably out loud), "No effing mode that could ever happen similar it did in this moving-picture show!" Then they volition go dwelling house, expect it up and observe that, yes, it happened exactly every bit it played out in the film version. There'due south freakin' security footage from the McDonalds information technology happened at, and information technology played out over three hours, not just the ninety minutes like it did in the pic. This is most definitely the kind of true story that it'due south just besides hard to believe could happen. So it should brand the perfect movie, then, correct, as presently as you can take that it happened for real? No, I don't think and then. The thing is, the picture plays the upshot out pretty much detail for detail, and information technology plays it every bit a thriller. Zobel doesn't examine the psychology of the situation at all and provides no insight whatsoever. Even the 10 minute night news segment that gave Zobel the thought is far more interesting. It's a bore, and an enormously annoying one. Ann Dowd plays the fast food director who was duped into strip searching a teenage employee (Dreama Walker) by a faux cop over the phone. Eventually she's duped into bringing her fiancé to watch over the daughter, and then he'due south duped into sodomizing her. Seriously. Duped. This isn't so much a gripping story as a national embarrassment which European internet users will forever use to show how much smarter they are than Americans (favorite IMDb bulletin board comment: "No i in Deutschland would always practise something bad if an authority figure ordered them to!"). The real-life woman non only didn't get to jail for serving her teenage employee to her fiancée, she sued McDonalds for millions of dollars for non grooming her for the situation and won. Ann Dowd spent her life savings trying to get nominated for an Oscar for her trite little performance here. Thankfully, when she ends upward managing a McDonalds, they'll having the preparation in place to prevent her from making similar mistakes.
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Consider me not-compliant
The disclaimer that opens "Compliance" stresses that information technology's inspired by real events (which is supposed to instill the audition with confidence that the story's credible), merely as a motion picture, information technology only doesn't piece of work; for me, at to the lowest degree. These characters are all taking orders from a disembodied vox - supposedly a cop - merely no one'south e'er shown a badge. No one corroborates this guy'due south claims of beingness a detective. And I realize this just occurs to me as a fellow member of the movie's audience, I become that. Only would I really take orders similar this in real life from a voice? I tin't believe that. The sympathy for these characters lasts simply so long (not very) and with every new task, you lot just want to strangle some sense into these people. And the antics go to some absurd lengths.
It's just besides ridiculous. And more so when we're expected to keep with it.
One thing they could've washed to aid this is to proceed the voice disembodied. He was much scarier when we didn't know he was just a prankster calling from his house. They could've pulled this off, as well; simply testify a man beingness taken out of his house at the end in cuffs. The sadistic things these people are forced to do deport far more weight when we don't who'southward at the bottom of this.
Yeah, it might say "based on true events", merely this is a movie. And it behaves as such, but relies also much on the fact that "this really happened" rather than making the actual on-screen story believable.
4/10
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A Portrait of Compliant People
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In the bonus track of the DVD of "Compliance," writer-managing director Craig Zobel described how his motion picture explored "the dynamic of people's human relationship with dominance." In his research for the motion-picture show, Zobel studied the experiments carried out by Yale behavioral psychologist Stanley Migram in the area of obedience to authorization and personal conscience.
While Milgram was seeking to understand the horrific consequences of what led to the Holocaust, the basis for his inquiry affects people in all walks of life, every bit apparent in Zlbel's study of the duping of fast food workers, based on true events.
Zobel makes credible the circumstances of how people who should have known better were manipulated into criminal activity while falling casualty to the machinations of a deranged phone caller posing as a police officer. The fast food workers forced ane of their co-workers into a humiliating, life-damaging experience based on a pack of lies.
The actors were spot on in their portrayal of the workers, especially the store managing director played by Ann Dowd. This was a decent person and a difficult worker, who allow herself by played by a psychopath. In sustaining dramatic tension, Zobel somehow found a fashion to make a long phone conversation a riveting drama. He also deftly handled the ending by the use of montage to wrap upward the mystery of who perpetrated the offense on the fast nutrient people.
Released in 2102, "Compliance" is even more than relevant today due to the desensitizing uses of social media and technology that are depriving united states of america of our basic humanity.
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Manipulation and imitation simulated potency at it's best a chilling and twisted disturbing haunting look at a strange interesting true occurrence.
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Merely saw "Compliance" and I must say that it left me in wonder and disturbed to run into how strange and twisted things like this prank hoax go along to happen in America. Information technology's clear that we American'south will go to whatever measures when we hear from an authorisation figure even if it'due south fake as this picture showed. Based on truthful events manager Craig Zobel does a fine task bringing this real life uneasy drama to the screen and it's rightfully titled "Compliance". It all took place in the Midwest and this story is down correct chilling, every bit one crazy day would change the lives of everyone involved. On a fast and hectic night at a Ohio fast food eating house tough and demanding manager Sandra(Ann Dowd)gets a call from an apparent police officer proverb that one of her employees a pretty and sexy young blonde named Becky("Don't Trust the B in Apt. 23's" Dreama Walker)has stolen coin from a client. Sadly duped that she's doing right fifty-fifty without hard proof Sandra listens to every demand of the crazed caller as she starts a step by stride investigation of Becky. Chilling and humiliating this chat becomes a ill twisted cat and mouse game which fifty-fifty crosses the span of a strip and body cavity search really it tin exist classified every bit a brandish of sexual deviance from the faux constabulary officer and a real sexual embarrassment for young Becky. Overall this is a powerful and interesting disturbing moving picture that shows crazy wicked things happen to innocent people and corruption of power and false authority is all to common, "Compliance" is i movie to watch and call back.
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If y'all're then superior, what would you do?
Imagine you lot're an employee at the local fast food joint, who is spry, young, and just just trying to make some cash to afford your dreams, any they may be. Information technology's Friday, your busiest day, your dominate is already edgy and upset because she understaffed and over $xv,000 of food went bad the night before considering someone left the freezer door open, and all you look forward to is a long listless weekend of relaxation. Merely for now, you lot have to tell your hungry, impatient customers that the supply of bacon and pickles is low, and you must deal with the normal, everyday club of the paying customer.
Then the phone rings and your boss answers it. It's a man claiming to be a police force officer who says that they take surveillance video and a person here claiming that you lot stole money out of a customer'south handbag when they were not looking. Your boss calls you to the backroom, where you speak to the officer, and are treated like a true felon, though there is no testify presented. The officer claims to have your general manager on the phone, and is instructing your dominate to search your apparel, your purse, and every belonging you take. The requests to prove your guilty involves yous to be strip-searched completely, and continues with more and more questionable procedures and more and more victims are involved as time goes on. Information technology turns out the person on the other line is not a police officer, simply a sadistic prank caller, whose motive isn't fully explained or maybe even explainable.
One could immediately write this all of as preposterous. That information technology is, but the truth it is likewise. Over seventy cases in thirty different U.S. states were reported of a prank phone caller portraying a police officeholder, offering the same sort of story, requesting the suspect exist strip-searched and forced to perform a number of indecent, inhumane acts that gradually become more humanly loathsome. The defendant here is Becky, played by Dreama Walker, and the manager who is taking the orders from "Officer Daniels" (Pat Healy) is Sandra, played by Ann Dowd, who gives one of the fiercest performances of the year, sure to go unrecognized by the general public.
"Officer Daniels" fools the employees due to his calm assertiveness and his reassuring vocalization. When we finally see who he really is, he reminded me of the main villain "Charlie" in Trust, because of his shocking normality. He ofttimes compliments those who are going along in this procedure, notably Sandra, who becomes nearly so smitten with his compliments that she begins to trust him more than she does her employee of some time. Sandra herself, overwhelmed past the busyness of the restaurant (the fictional fast food chain "ChickWich"), winds upward getting more than and more than of her employees involved including the trustworthy Marty (Ashlie Atkinson), the loudmouth Kevin (Phillip Ettinger), and even her slightly inebriated fiancée Van (Pecker Army camp), making her somewhat more than than a victim.
Yet, before yous immediately write the characters off every bit "stupid" and view them every bit faceless teenagers mirroring those in a horror movie, where every determination is questionable, what would yous practise? Would you have been smarter? Would you lot not have been distracted by the abundance of customers waiting in line and the curt of employees behind the counter? Oh, how easy it would've been to just comply with authority and not risk jeopardizing your business organisation's reputation or employees. Sandra clearly just wants to obey authority and go things sorted out as apace and as painlessly as possible. Earlier criticizing her, I tin not say that I blame her or I would've done any differently.
Compliance seems to reiterate the famous "Milgram experiment," performed by Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram in the 1960's. Milgram tested to come across how willingly people obey authority and how far they will become if they felt they were doing something of import or beneficial to the authorization in question. Compliance does this with a growing sense of tension for nigh its entire runtime, and by the end, we are numb to the core. We accept emotions and a reaction, all the same nosotros do not know how to formally prove them or state them. We are simply left in cold, depressing shock.
Compliance builds terror a lot like the more identifiable thriller Telephone Booth, and uses the same device of a directionless phone call to build up the suspense and nerve-rattling dubiety. The mystery of every phone call, especially ones involving something equally serious as this, is we are oblivious to the management they volition take. Both films expertly concoct an atmosphere of unsettling proportions, and they both brand smashing use of the characters involved in the current predicament.
Craig Zobel'southward management is unflinching and powerful, because of its intimacy and consistently suspenseful tone, and the material is conservative to the thought of possible sadism and reliant heavily on the elements of naturalism and the way things build over fourth dimension. Compliance is i of the rawest, tensest, most incredibly potent films of the yr. It questions our ideals, but we'd have to be in the situation at hand to have the appropriate response to its question.
Starring: Ann Dowd, Dreama Walker, Pat Healy, Ashlie Atkinson, Bill Camp, and Phillip Ettinger. Directed by: Craig Zobel.
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Simon Says
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"The deplorable truth is that most evil is done by people who never make upward their minds to be good or evil." - Hannah Arendt
Based on several real life cases, writer/managing director Craig Zobel's "Compliance" sees a gang of fast food workers stripping, humiliating and sexually violating a co-worker (Dreama Walker). Why? Because a man impersonating a police officeholder instructed them to exercise then.
"Compliance's" material allows it to flirt with diverse interesting themes. It touches upon the ease at which man absolves himself of moral responsibility, alludes to an erosion of civil rights, and points to both our blind obedience to authorisation and the ways in which such authority relies heavily on sheer faith. Interspersed with the film's horrors are more than mundane activities; Arendt's "banality of evil" writ large.
Whilst "Compliance" conjures upward everything from the Nuremberg trials to Abu Ghraid to My Lai to religious cults to the way whole populations are complicit in siding with or sanctioning atrocities, it does so merely by dint of its subject matter. Zobel himself brings zilch to the flick, and his handling of "Compliance's" fabric is mostly inept. To make things worse, the film ends with a subplot which is hell-aptitude on revealing the fate of the "man responsible" for the crime depicted. This is odd. The film opens on an American flag, suggesting a more abstract, widespread social problem. Zobel's final subplot, nonetheless, narrows "Compliance'south" focus. Better to only finish the film 10 minutes earlier on the line "you mean this has happened before?". Cut to black.
"Compliance" stars Dreama Walker as the film'southward master victim. She's far as well glamorous (and confident) for her role, lending "Compliance" an air of exploitation (Zobel casts plain actors for every function except Walker's). She'due south the beautiful damsel in distress, meticulously tortured for salacious audiences. The horror, crudeness and embarrassment her real life counterpart experienced is barely conveyed.
5/10 - Worth one viewing.
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What is crazy is the fact that this actually happened
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What makes this movie stand out is the fact that something like the event that takes place in this movie actually really happened. Which makes this picture even more agonizing to watch. The theme of this movie is basically nearly. How if you hate someone or want something from that someone and is put in a position to harm that person and not exist held liable for information technology. Sometimes they will get through with it, especially if they feel information technology'southward from a higher authority no matter how wrong or messed up the situation is. Which is understandable just as this movie progresses the characters in this moving picture become unbelievably dumb. And I couldn't assistance asking how some people with IQ over a single digit tin can make such dumb decisions. Merely I started to retrieve if it's to fulfill their own desire without any consequences they will become through with it in some cases. The manager of this motion-picture show wanted to impact the audiences and wanted this flick to stick with them and information technology really does that. And what is mind extraordinary is the fact that the event that takes place in this picture show happened multiple times. The picture show becomes a bit slow at times but it's a movie that leaves an touch on and is also agonizing to watch. And the fact that just about everything in this picture show actually happened makes it even more shocking. It certain isn't a feel good film, far from it. It actually can hit you in the gut.
six.9/10
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It should leave you lot feeling sad and disgusted!
'COMPLIANCE': Four and a One-half Stars (Out of Five)
This is the blazon of movie that will really leave a lot of viewers feeling disgusted and 'dirty'! It had that result on me and many others, as there have been reports of multiple viewers walking out on screenings of the picture show (frustrated and appalled by what they were seeing). I was utterly depressed after watching information technology and felt that way (on and off) for several days afterward viewing the movie because of information technology. To me that's the sign of a well fabricated film. It doesn't mean I liked or enjoyed the picture, those are entirely different things, simply I do respect it as the quality dramatic thriller that it is.
The story is based on true events in which a prank call leads to the manipulated sexual harassment (and more) of an employee at a fast food eating house in a small town. The prank caller (Pat Healy) pretends to exist a police officeholder and convinces the manager of a ChickWich concatenation eating house (Ann Dowd) that one of her employees (Dreama Walker) has stolen money from a customer'due south purse. He so convinces the manager to strip search the employee and become other employees involved. The situation continues to escalate and become more than and more disturbing as new people are brought in and manipulated throughout the twenty-four hour period. It's based on a series of nearly 60 like crimes around the US (believed to be perpetrated by the same individual), almost specifically the McDonald's example in Bullitt County.
The movie is extremely shocking and at times the actions of the characters seem as well unbelievable to exist truthful, but they are, which makes the movie all that harder to watch. Some have called it the 'most disturbing pic ever' but unlike something like 'THE Homo CENTIPEDE' this picture actually has a point and something to acquire and take abroad from it. It's a fantastic grapheme and psychological study and the performances are all exceptional. Ann Dowd is particularly impressive in the lead only if in that location is one weak link I'd say it's Dreama Walker (I wasn't entirely convinced by her at times). For the nearly part the characters are very believable and feel like people nosotros all actually know. Information technology's the writer and director's, Craig Zobel, second moving picture and he really seems like a filmmaker to lookout for. Similar I said it's definitely a hard film to spotter and since it does do it's job correct it should go out you feeling sorry and disgusted. To exist an honest critic you lot tin can't judge a film on how much you liked information technology, or base of operations your review on other personal biases, you accept to rate it on how well it does what it set out to do. This is an exceptionally well made moving-picture show!
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Out of Compliance
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(I might exist out of compliance myself as this review might contain some minor spoilers. You lot've been warned.)
Compliance was truly ane of the hardest films for me to lookout man. And no, it was not considering of the following:
1. Extreme Gore. ii. Free Violence and Language. 3. Child Abuse. 4. A Guest Appearance by Snooki.
It was because of stupidity. Unbelievable and downright contemptuous ignorance. Certain, we (or at to the lowest degree my reader and I) live in a country that mostly stands behind the likes of The Jersey Shore, The Kardashians and most recently, some trailer trash honey agglomeration kid that I've only heard word of oral fissure about.
But…the "inspired past a true story" morons shown here in Compliance actually make me believe at that place are real-life people getting duped over the telephone past scam artists. I honestly thought: if they did exist, it would have to be .00009% of the population. I was sooo incorrect.
What started off in stereotypical, but welcoming, independent pic style, Compliance showed u.s.a. a decorated Friday nighttime at a craven fast food joint. I've worked in that manufacture many moons ago and what they showed was fairly accurate, so it was kinda nice trip downward memory lane. Until
Until, the unmarried-digit I.Q. supervisor (oh, and that's spot on for most fast food superiors I've worked for) receives a telephone call from a police detective claiming the blonde throw-abroad cashier stole money from a customer. This is well-nigh less than a fifth of the way in, and from there on, my mind went numb.
You come across, the detective has the grade-school dropout supervisor perform certain "tasks" to show the immature female's innocence. At very showtime, the objectives are small and innocent. In a heartbeat, however, they snowball into the extreme and highly questionable; such as strip searching the employee…and that'due south the to the lowest degree of the duties requested.
What I but provided are the "pocket-sized spoilers" I previously warned of. There's then much more that happens, every bit part of the investigation, to this employee of which I refuse to refer to as a "victim."
The reason my mind went numb was because by the 2d or tertiary order past the officer over the phone I would take requested, no demanded, he come down to restaurant and wonder why he hadn't already. My "inspired past a truthful story" movie would've been over in twenty minutes considering I would've called this guy out.
Recently, I've heard people online say: "I don't know what I would've done in this situation" and "Let the conversations begin!" Well, it'south painfully obvious what I would've done, so my "give-and-take," or conversation, would've been brusk and simple. And it was extremely frustrating watching these imbeciles – including the strip-searched immature female person suspect – not practice a single thing right.
I similar to write down my thoughts offset before I read other people's opinions/reviews. So, currently, I am ignorant to why people gave this movie such praise. I will say the acting was very believable – I have known my share of idiots and it was well shot – and then in that location are no complaints from me there.
What I simply couldn't become past was the ridiculous reactions from these and so-chosen human beings. How many people would you know would readily concur to begin slicing up their arm with a butcher pocketknife if some stranger called them on the telephone and informed them: "To get the bugs out, you must first cutting upwardly your arm! Practise it! Find a knife at present! At that place's no time; those bugs tin get deeper into your system!"
That may sound far-fetched, only there you lot become. That's this movie. If yous would similar to sentry painful and hard-to-watch "true stories" of some dense people, save some minutes by simply watching an episode of either Jersey Shore, Kardashians or that love dish of embarrassment everyone'south talking about.
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Fact is once once more stranger, and more compelling, than fiction
STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Dark **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning time ** Sunday Nighttime * Mon Morning
Sandra (Ann Dowd) is the somewhat stressed out director at a fast food joint, where 1 of the employees forgot to lock a fridge resulting in a load of bacon going off, who finds herself running things on a peculiarly busy dark. Of a sudden, she receives a phone call from a homo purporting to be from the police, who says he has evidence that Becky (Dreama Walker), an employee, has stolen from a customer. He is, of course, trivial more than than a prank caller, a depraved pervert who talks Sandra in to making Becky do the nigh depraved things to evidence her innocence. The scary thing is, how willingly they both stop up going along with it.
The 'real time' formula for thrillers crawls back out the woodwork here for this independent offering, based on just i of seventy true life incidents that allegedly took place across the US. Based on a study carried out in the early 60's about people's behaviour when addressed by an authority figure, information technology's yet another example of what the person who coined the phrase 'fact is stranger than fiction' was talking about. Information technology becomes more of a deeply unsettling report of people's passivity and unwillingness to claiming the dubious than much in the mode of standing upwards to stone common cold 'authority', but information technology is no less of a thoroughly uneasy but utterly compelling motion-picture show that uses the minutes slowly, coldly ticking by to excellent effect.
The drained out colour and unglamourous settings set the perfect tone for the real life effect intended, making everything seem every bit uncomfortably real every bit it was meant to be. While the main victim, suffering the most degrading and unpleasant treatment is Becky, the chief focus falls on Sandra, as the senior person in directly contact with the accused, who is made to go on with the caller'south bizarre and unusual requests, yet he makes himself audio so convincing and make his requests sound so genuine that information technology'southward hard to just remember he'southward a crank. When his mask is slipped abroad and we see the man on the other end, the human being face he bears somehow makes his presence even more than hard to bear.
Genuinely hard to believe and certainly hard to watch, Compliance uncomfortably forces each of united states of america to examine our own gullibility and logical assertiveness. *****
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All that hype...what an awful alibi for a smart pic
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Well as it turns out this is the second time I wrote this review. The first time I wrote information technology, I was ranting virtually how completely implausible this was and while it claims to be based on a true story I didn't believe 99% of it. I thought the film makers were trying to test how stupid people that watched this could be. Well...I had to delete my review and start again because guess what? It happened. Seemingly every item of this disgusting motion picture happened in existent life. It is probably i of the most icky things on film I have e'er seen and to think this happened in real life is revolting. Just the question is did it make a good film? My answer is nevertheless no. I mean it was decently filmed but there is less than zilch entertainment value because there is zilch entertaining about watching someone raped and disgraced and humiliated. I heard nothing but how disturbing and brilliant this moving picture was and granted I was a little excited considering I heard how amazing it was. For me I felt like this was about two steps in a higher place being forced to watch a snuff picture. Was it disturbing? Y'all bet. But not because you can't believe this would actually happen. Its disturbing that any one would really make this. The thought backside the film could have been a stone cold Brilliant film about the human condition and an incredibly clever psychological thriller. I feel like this missed the boat on some of this in order to exist costless with disturbing sexual images and events. If nothing else I approximate I tin say the moving-picture show opens up a load of conversations about who is to blame here and how this could happen.
Ann Dowd is perfectly atrocious as the Restaurant manager. I detest her completely. She is ridiculous, stupid, cool and from real interviews I've seen with the real life managing director...Dowd captures her pretty well so I guess her performance is a huge A+. Dreama Walker is the focus of the picture show as Becky, the girl that all this happens to. Walker is okay in the role merely having seen her previously in comedies, it was difficult to take her seriously and I didn't feel similar her performance matched what was happening to her. Pat Healy is our perpetrator and I personally think he completely misses the boat. I think his role has the potential of being a meaty, powerful, and sadistic role and Healy is well-nigh dull at it. I wanted Phone Booth'south Kiefer Sutherland and we got a dud. His functioning made the believability of the pic driblet exponentially. Philip Ettinger, Ashlie Atkinson and Pecker Camp circular out the main supporting cast just they certainly don't requite any terrific performances and its and then infuriating that they practise nada that it makes their characters more pointless.
Now I know many people reading this will say that a picture that exacts so much rage from me must have some merit. Maybe it does for some merely for me I didn't find information technology. No shock at all that manager and writer Craig Zobel has very petty feel. There is so much story hither and there is a distinct take chances for this to exist made into a smart thriller that told a agonizing story without literally making your skin crawl. I completely understand that the real situation was skin crawling simply films are made nearly events a thousand times worse than this merely they are done with course and style and they evoke emotion and not merely make you desire to vomit through the whole film. In that location is literally no reason to see this movie. I am not sure I have ever seen a film where bad or good there just isn't any demand for information technology to exist. It does nothing. Information technology is ineffective and gratuitously shot. The best thing I can say about the film is that it wraps itself upward nicely in the end. It was almost entertaining simply to lookout man them capture the caller and see the aftermath of what happened. That's all I tin say for information technology. I would never, e'er field of study myself to sitting through it again. 3/x
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Well-nigh likewise painful to watch
I've seen a lot of horror movies that are supposed to be scary and all the same at that place aren't many that are as hard to sit through as this. It was truly horrible - mainly because it'southward (almost completely) truthful (I checked online and apparently this really happened almost give-and-take for word in a McDonalds restaurant in Kentucky, Usa).
'Compliance' is basically almost a prank call, where a man - pretending to be a law officer - phones a fast food restaurant, challenge i of the employees has stolen some money. What follows is psychological manipulation from him, as he gets the staff to make the employee's life more and more than uncomfortable.
Function of the problem with choosing to watch a film like this is that you'll observe yourself (only like I did), constantly screaming at the characters on screen not to be so absolutely stupid. However, stupid they were in real life, so I guess the worst function almost this is that people in real life obviously don't question authority.
You won't enjoy this flick - even if y'all like information technology (and I did in some ways). It's not a picture that's meant to be enjoyed; it's there to prove us but how easy it is to fool some people with minimal testify to back up their story. If you think that y'all can sit through an hour and a one-half of total - real life - torture of an innocent (if slightly naïve) girl then Compliance makes an interesting tale. It is a good moving-picture show, merely in a weird, unbelievably shocking kind of way.
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