Iranian director Marjane
Satrapi’s first English-language feature, surrealist black comedy, THE VOICES (2014), stars Ryan Reynolds (Green
Lantern, Deadpool) as Jerry, an everyday lonely psycho, who just happens to work
in a warehouse that packages bathroom fixtures. He’s off his meds and soon
collecting severed heads for his fridge at home.
Jerry’s schizoid conversations
with his dog and cat (the angel/ devil on his mentality’s shoulders), are rendered
with CGI as mockingly cute, sketching out his brittle sanity in fantasy terms
of live-action Disney meets Tex Avery.
With Gemma Arterton and
Anna Kendrick as prime victims, adding further influential voices to Jerry’s
confusion, cartoonish domestic scenes of serial killer horror are contrasted
with flashbacks to Jerry’s immigrant childhood and abusive parents. Despite the
kidnapping finale; and tactical breach by cops at Jerry’s bowling-alley
residence, this fable of tragicomic sociopathy finishes with a cheerful
dreamscape sing-along playing through the movie credits.
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