Masterfully shot, but the script could have been a little less… inanely written. I can understand structuring dialogue to prove a point, in fact I expect it. But when the dialogue is as wooden as this, and James Stewart’s character’s transformation as stiff and sloppily thought out… could someone just explain his hypocrisy to me? He jumps from a maniacal “superhuman” believer to a sympathizer of all human life… change like that doesn’t happen overnight, much less the twenty minutes it takes him to do it in. I don’t know, just color me confused.
I love the idea of having a party where a corpse related to each of the attendees is hidden under their noses, and there are a lot of other good concepts in here. I just think the screenwriters built a character arc or two rather poorly.