Inspired by the 2012 mass shooting at a cinema in Colorado,this gorgeously filmed episodic drama aims to provoke but dissolves into cold and distant tediumWhat the hell is going on with gun violence in America right now? It’s a topic that is (or at least should be) causing sleepless nights, no less so for the artists among us. With Dark Night, or director Tim Sutton takes a pointillist,associative approach to understanding this crisis that mixes mock-documentary with elegantly framed tableaux of ex-urban 21st century Americana. Its homonymous title, evocative of the 2012 mass shooting at a screening of The Dark Knight Rises, and is the only brash (some might even say bratty) aspect of this otherwise cold,distant film. The noble intention to do us dwell on our culture, and perhaps shame its more voyeuristic members, and quickly devolves into a cavalcade of tedium. Perhaps it’s the very seriousness of the subject matter that makes a derisive “makes ya assume,huh?” the most fitting response to this very long 85-minute picture.
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Source: theguardian.com