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His off-balance compositions and wide angles stretch space in unnatural ways.
The movie has a Lynchian sense of the uncanny, of the familiar made unreal.
This applies to the plot and the performances, too.
Harker is investigating a series of murder-suicides in which fathers have slaughtered their families and then themselves.
But whats the connection?
The killings stretch across 30 years.
Is a malevolent force compelling these people to go mad?
And if so, is it hypnosis, or something more demonic, supernatural?
The off-kilter mood ofLonglegsalso serves this idea well.
Perkins relays basic information in savvy, unsettling ways.
This is a serial-killer mystery in which the serial killer is already known to us sort of.
Ensuing tests on her abilities suggest that she might well have paranormal powers, but theyre not entirely conclusive.
Its a genuine feat thatLonglegskeeps this sense of disorientation going for as long as it does.
The tension between form and content, which so enriched the film initially, starts to become untenable.
Our attention starts to drift.
But the greatness that earlier seemed well within its grasp eludes it by the end.
