![]() ![]() ![]() This is a bit more credible when you consider that she has a masters in psychology, amongst other things. She seems to empathise quite strongly with Jordan, and makes more progress in getting through to him than anyone has in the ten years he has been in psychiatric hospital. Macleah is a complicated woman who smokes too much, and has unexplained scars on her back (the writer never gets around to giving us more than a slight hint as to the origin of those scars). I'm not saying that Audrey Macleah is the same character as the lead in Profiler - she is far from it. Interestingly, this film was remade for TV as Perfect Prey, starring Kelly McGillis in the lead role, so you'd expect her to end up with the lead in Profiler (maybe she was too busy with her numerous other commitments). I have no proof, but I strongly suspect that this film was the inspiration for the TV series Profiler. I don't know why they included Ron Perlman - he is in the film for about five minutes, and he gets maybe five lines - hardly a starring role. The three names on the cover are Ally Walker, Martin Sheen, and Ron Perlman. She suspects that there is some link between this boy and the case she's working on. He suffers from bleeding from the wrists, without any apparent source of injury. She gets distracted by the case of a boy called Jordan ( Tara Subkoff) who has been locked in a psychiatric hospital for 10 years - he has been drawing hands on the wall of his room. Naturally, she makes more progress than they do (it is a Hollywood film, after all). Captain Swaggert ( Martin Sheen) is not against her involvement, but some of the members of his team lack enthusiasm. The story is told mostly from the point of view of Audrey Macleah ( Ally Walker), a profiler (suspect analyst - profiler is apparently a term objectionable to the psychologists) sent from the Texas state crime division to Houston to assist in the investigation once the hands are found. If that idea makes you queasy, then I strongly urge you not to watch this film. This movie is about a serial killer, whose activities come to light when a bag of children's hands is found. Oh, it's a thriller / horror film, but it belongs to the police-tracking-down-a-serial-killer genre. I was expecting menacing phone calls, lots of screams, running through a darkened house, you know. When you look at the name When the Bough Breaks, a reference to the lullaby, you have to think that it's a baby-sitter thriller / horror film, don't you? That's certainly what I thought. Though the family remains intact after all the fights, the cuts are raw and hard and difficult to heal.Directed by one of China’s most significant female filmmakers, Ji Dan, When the Bough Breaks is a raw, at times unblinking portrayal of the underclass of contemporary China.Īrtist Hung Liu will no longer be able to attend the screening of When the Bough Breaks due to personal matters.If you create a user account, you can add your own review of this DVDįull Screen, not known whether Pan & Scan or Full Frame Continuously confronting their parents, both Xia and Ling finally are forced to drop out of school, in order to afford to send Gang to college. Left on their own, the kids must fight the battle themselves, led by the strong-willed Xia. ![]() Their dominant, unreasonable father possesses neither the will nor the ability to support their education, while their mother merely dreams of some kind of miraculous outside intervention, whether from an Auntie or the lecherous Mr. The family’s two daughters, Xia and Ling, and their son Gang form the heart of the story they share none of the riches of the nearby capital city, but share with one another a burden too heavy for their ages: how to find funding for their education, and change their fate with little to no help from their parents. A young girl stands stubbornly in a frozen wasteland, gazing into the distance at brand-new buildings far beyond her reach: this opening shot underlines the theme of When the Bough Breaks, a persuasive, powerful documentary about a family living on the edges of Beijing. ![]()
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