Captives
by Angela Pope
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Actor: Julia Ormond, Keith Allen, Peter Capaldi, Siobhan Redmond, Tim RothDirector: Angela Pope
Brand: ROTH,TIM
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-06-04
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Miramax
Movie Reviews of Captives
Movie Review: Strong stuff as someone put it - couldn't say better
Summary: 5 Stars
Let me disagree with the statement that movie makes it look like it's a justifiable homicide. I think what the movie does excellently is revealing and developing Roth's character - and he is obviously not a "common" criminal. He is what we might call a normal man who happens to feel perhaps more deeply/strongly than some and that makes him react the way he did to his wife's affair. He is shown to have a had a normal life once, with a normal job of "wiring and rewiring houses" - a person who just happened to make a critical mistake, a wrong turn you might call it. He is not a violent man yet he has to learn to defend himself in the environment he found himself in - that's shown so well in the scene with the two "pillow case" attackers (what do they say about prisons actually making people worse than they used to be? it's all the environment). I think the movie shows that not everything can be called black and white, good or bad, but things in real life are more complicated, people are complicated creatures, they make mistakes.
I almost agreed with you that Phillip is not shown with enough caring for Rachel's well-being, safety and right to know the character of the man she is with. Yes, sometimes when I watched the scene where he gives her a hug in the university, I thought - come on, man, is that really all the support you can offer your woman, a shoulder to cry on? But then again I think the movie attempts to show just that - he is not the perfect man, a knight on a white horse, he is a broken man who found his life took an unexpected turn and brought him where he never expected to be, an environment of gangsters, murderers, rapists. So he is deeply vulnerable and in a way powerless - he doesn't have the outside-of-prison connections like Towler does because was never from that environment. Remember the scene when he hangs up making it look like they got disconnected, how he knocks on the phone stand revealing utter nervousness - "vulnerable" is written all over that. So again I think the movie does an unbelivable job of showing the depths of the character, never black and white.
Summary of Captives
This critically acclaimed erotic thriller stars Julia Ormond (SABRINA) and Tim Roth (PLANET OF THE APES) in a sexy story of forbidden desire and dangerous entrapment! After a beautiful woman (Ormond) unexpectedly finds passion with a mysterious loner (Roth), they secretly begin an illicit affair! But soon, blackmail turns the relationship into a far more dangerous situation than they could have ever imagined! With everything at risk it's an impossible predicament that leaves them nowhere to hide ... and delivers riveting big-screen entertainment!The thrill of forbidden passion electrifies the air when young dentist Julia Ormand, the wounded victim of a rough divorce, falls for sad, soulful convict Tim Roth, a patient in her part-time prison duties. Her impulsive embrace of a man who seduces her with whispered confessions and little love bites (how better to flirt with a dentist?) and the rush of their affair raises unsettling questions: what exactly are his motives, and what crime is he in prison for? Captives can't decide whether it's a tale of obsessive love or a film noir thriller with an erotic twist, and it finally falls back on mundane complications. But delicate Ormand is a beauty with a deer-in-the-headlights look, and Roth steals the film with his simmering and tragic eyes. --Sean Axmaker
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