The Flock
Seven, Eleven, Sixty Nine, Fifty. A thriller by the numbers, since it even stars with a kind of PSA with all kinds of numbers. Includes a unbelievable scene where Richard Gere grills Avril Lavigne over sexual proclivities, I bet Claire Danes laughing her ass off was real.
It’s those kind of scary numbers that feed the paranoia, of millions of rapist murderers walking about the world, no justice, no peace. How many people in the sex offender registry are booked by public urination? Or 18 years old having sex with 17 years old? Apparently, there’s a million registered sex offenders, no wonder there aren’t enough bureaucrats to oversee them.
The actual core plotline is a disappearance of a all-American blonde girl from a suburbs, taken by some urban folk and kept in some trailer park. The goddamn poors, encroaching on the girls riding horses! Down with this sort of thing.
Protagonist bureaucrat Richard Gere is about to retire, this is his last job. Even though he’s no cop, he sees himself as one, carries a concealed snub-nosed revolver, and harasses random people for kicks. His boss hates him, the dad from Twin Peaks.
His replacement is a girly girl Claire Danes, personally handpicked for her teenage rebellious attitude and for her mother complaining she changes jobs as fast as she changes boyfriends. Her rebellious days are over, she’s a proper young professional lady now, and wants a stable, normal desk job.
Too bad she’s stuck with the crazy person. As part of his regular duties he harasses and grills every single person on his list, including a befuddled Avril Lavigne, enthralled as a kept woman of some trust fund kid with sexually deviant characteristics (what the actual fuck). At some point, Claire Danes just burst out laughing, I think that must be a blooper they kept it.
They go into some kind of flop house/porn studio/brothel/house of horrors, to go after the dude from Blade, but he gets away. It’s back to harassing people everywhere for our protagonist.
At some point, on a diner, he sees two teenagers making out a bit too intensely, and goes to their table harassing them. When the kid snaps, he breaks a goddamn glass in his head and kicks him several times. This is the last straw, and he is kicked out of the “force”.
After that, he breaks into the partner’s house, points a gun at her to convince her to go commit crimes. She screams for him to get out, so he gets to his car and simulates a suicide. After this, she goes with him, as a kind of mental health intervention.
“Sometimes I think about hurting them”, says the dude that already spanked two people with a baseball bat and stole their shit.
Since they need a twist, the only woman they meet is the mastermind behind it all. You know, the previous victim.
This is my place for ramblings about sequences of images that exploit the human visual limitation know as persistence of vision.