It was another hot afternoon,
nothing delightful showing on regular programming, fortunately mom said she had
a couple of new movie uploads at the hard drive. Scanning thru the titles I saw
STOKER. Hmmm could it be something about vampires ? As in Bram Stroker LOL. The
movie started slow, progressed to even slower but still . . . the lineup of celebrity
was not to be ignored, it featuresNicole
Kidman & Mia Wasikowska of Alice in Wonderland, the latest
version my daughter 
So goes the reel. The story
starts : During her 18th birthday, India Stoker's (Mia
Wasikowska) life is turned upside down after her loving father Richard (Dermot
Mulroney) dies in a horrific car accident. India is then left with her
estranged unstable mother Evelyn (Nicole
Kidman). At Richard's funeral, Evelyn and India are introduced to Richard's
charming and charismatic brother Charlie (Matthew
Goode), who has spent his life traveling the world. He then announces that
he is staying indefinitely to help support India and Evelyn, much to Evelyn's
delight and India's chagrin.
As it turns out, Charlie murdered
his and Richard's younger brother Jonathan as a child because he was jealous
that Richard paid more attention to him over Charlie. Charlie was then locked
in a mental institution for several years. When released on India's 18th birthday,
Richard gave Charlie a car, a generous amount of money, and an apartment in New
York to cut off ties with him and prevent him from meeting India. Feeling hurt
and betrayed, Charlie beat Richard to death with a rock and staged the car
accident. So why didn’t he want India to meet Charlie ? Cause very year, Charlie
would send India a pair of shoes for her birthday, she has all 17 pairs of
them. The game was, on her birthday she would go around their opulent dwelling
and search for this present. She wore those shoes every single day until her
next birthday. Spooky !!!
Then there’s the hunting, her
father will bring her hunting every afternoon after school, he said that it is
much better to do “this” to prevent her from doing something worse. You’d think
that the dad already has an inkling that India would turn Psycho huh ? He would
then have the animals she shot & killed stuffed and displayed in his
office.
So upon checking out the mental
institute Charlie took care of Richard, then Mrs. McGarrick (Phyllis Somerville), the head caretaker of the
house, who has been his accomplice in the birthday gift game. Then India's
great aunt Gwendolyn (Jacki Weaver) who arrives to visit the family after hearing
of Richard’s death. She was in shock to see Charlie there & wanted to speak
to Evelyn in private. To make the long story short, Charlie hunted her down
& killed her too. Lastly, Whip Taylor (Alden
Ehrenreich) India’s classmate whom she misled, YES she misled him into
thinking she wanted to “do” it but then turned him down. Too late, teenage
hormones at boiling point, make out accelerated into rape BUT Uncle Charlie was
so conveniently around to again – kill Whip while he was on top of India none the
less.
I knew that she was going to turn
psycho, Why ? Cause the dead bodies she discovered didn’t bother her ! 911 wasn’t
even in her mind, instead she has an “orgasm” remembering the choking Whip on
top of her L
SO finally Charlie decides to
kill Evelyn her mom, thinking India would help him. Wrong ! India shot him
instead & simply left a drunkard Nicole Kidman as she moves on with her
life taking Charlie’s place in New York as her father has prepared.
As She was speeding waya, she was
pulled over for speeding by Sheriff Howard, who then asks her why she's in a
hurry. India replies that she wanted to catch his attention, then plunges a
pair of garden shears into his neck. India pursues the wounded sheriff into a
field to dispatch him with her rifle. VICTIM NO 1 and counting.
Hmmm so now we know how the
serial killer in colleges started, they started early at home AND it’s hereditary. All in
all the movie was OK, kept you guessing what it’s all about. Made you listen
intently. And you could never guess the ENDING. Good Movie :)
