Review: The Pale Blue Eye on Netflix.
Not So Brief Plot Synopsis:
A West Point cadet's apparent suicide and post-mortem cardiectomy is actually a murder, according to retired detective Augustus Landor . Tasked by the Academy with solving the crime, Landor enlists peculiar cadet Edgar Allan Poe to get to the bottom of things as more killings pile up.conqueror worms
. Director Scott Cooper teases witchcraft, Satanism, and even Poe's own works . The reality, however, is both more mundane and more depressing. is one cold movie, capitalizing on the snowy cinematography of Masanobu Takayanagi's who teams up once again with Cooper and Bale to tell another story about grim-faced men in unfriendly environs.
Speaking of, Detective Landor isn't much of a stretch for Bale, who's played the Man With A Haunted Past in three of Cooper's movies now. Landor is an alcoholic, albeit a brilliant one, and a widower who's strangely detached from the fact his daughter ran off several years prior. The crimes themselves hint at deeper connections. Is there some link between the murdered cadets and the medical examiner and his haughty wife ? How does the stern Academy superintendent figure in to all of this? Or Landor's old antiquarian acquaintance Jean Pepe ?
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