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Actors: Ellen Barkin, Julian Sands, Peta Wilson, Stephen Baldwin
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Mercy |
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Based on the David L. Lindsey novel, MERCY is a movie written for the screen and directed by Damian Harris in 1999.
A serial killer is murdering wealthy young women always in the same manner. Detective Ellen Barkin will discover, during her investigation, that all the victims belonged to a special women's club reserved to lesbians and bondage addicts. Meanwhile, psychiatrist Julian Sands is receiving the confidences of some of the members of this special club who've suffered from various traumatisms during their childhood.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Mercy |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 10%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 60%
How difficult to spot villain?
- Moderately Challenging
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Murder Mystery?
Yes
What % of story relates directly
to the mystery, not the subplot?
- 50%
Misc. Plotlets
- victim dies just after sex
Special suspect?
- best friend
Kind of mystery?
- police procedural
Taboo Sex Story?
Yes
Kind of story:
- lesbians!!!!
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair style
- medium/shoulderlgn, straight (woman)
Body type
- ample bosom & buttocks (woman)
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- mentally ill
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Hair color
- blonde
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
unclothed?
- chest
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Setting
United States
Yes
City?
Yes
City:
- wealthy
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
- resort/hotel
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- all mixed up
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- use of artificial tools
- lesbians!
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing nude male butt
- seeing full frontal--women
- sex with icepick
Kind of violence:
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- rough sex
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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