{"id":3533,"date":"2021-09-19T14:09:59","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T14:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=3533"},"modified":"2023-01-22T22:20:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T22:20:01","slug":"film-review-secret-window-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=3533","title":{"rendered":"FiLM REViEW: Secret Window, 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"267\" height=\"372\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/img_1365.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3534\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/img_1365.jpg 267w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/img_1365-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"155\" height=\"30\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/stars_06_three-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3576\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/stars_06_three-1-1.jpg 155w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/stars_06_three-1-1-150x30.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Not happy with <em>Identity<\/em>, Teresa demanded that we watch another movie (which she fairly promptly fell asleep to!). That wound up being <em>Secret Window<\/em>, starring Johnny Depp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Depp\u2019s very popular, I believe. I know he can act (<em>Dead Man<\/em>, <em>Fear &amp; Loathing<\/em>). But many films he\u2019s in are too trashy for me (<em>Pirates<\/em>, etc.), and those perfume ads he does? Eugh! This odd little movie finds him a bit confused as to how to play his part. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Madly enough, straight after <em>Identity<\/em>, the opening sequence is shockingly deja-vu-ish: sleety snow replaces the rain, but we wind up at another dark, sleazy motel! This opening scene suggests a troubled mind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Depp is Morton Rainey, a writer in the process of getting divorced, living in a remote and beautiful log cabin style luxury home out in the woods by a lake. Living a lazy bohemian life, with an elderly maid, and writer\u2019s block.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visited by a hat wearing hick, John Shooter, played by John Turturro, who accuses him of plagiarism, we quickly realise, as Mort tries to deal with the strange scenario, that he\u2019s not a well man. In the end, then, the central conceit of <em>Secret Window<\/em> is very like that of <em>Identity<\/em>. Only where the chief character in the latter has multiple others to contend with, Mort just has the one, Shooter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The denouement is both kind of obvious and predictable. Although, that said, it could go one of two ways. The way it goes is\u2026 well, that\u2019d be spoiling it, wouldn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watchable, but far from classic, and certainly not essential. Although I score them the same, I think of the two <em>Identity<\/em> is, perhaps, marginally better. But there\u2019s not much in it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not happy with Identity, Teresa demanded that we watch another movie (which she fairly promptly fell asleep to!). That wound up being Secret Window, starring Johnny Depp. Depp\u2019s very popular, I believe. I know he can act (Dead Man, Fear &amp; Loathing). But many films he\u2019s in are too trashy for me (Pirates, etc.), and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=3533\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FiLM REViEW: Secret Window, 2004&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-UZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3533"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3533"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8168,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3533\/revisions\/8168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}