The pale blue eye imdb

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Sign In. The Pale Blue Eye Hide Spoilers. Not an extraordinary detective, but a really solid one. The good; director Scott Cooper is a craftsman at building up suspense.

The pale blue eye imdb

A world-weary detective is hired to investigate the murder of a West Point cadet. Stymied by the cadets' code of silence, he enlists one of their own to help unravel the case - a young man t Read all A world-weary detective is hired to investigate the murder of a West Point cadet. Stymied by the cadets' code of silence, he enlists one of their own to help unravel the case - a young man the world would come to know as Edgar Allan Poe. Augustus Landor : I do believe that the Academy takes away the young man's will. Advances him with regulations and rules. Deprives him of reason. It makes him less human. Captain Hitchcock : Are you implying the Academy is to blame for these deaths? Augustus Landor : Someone connected to the Academy, yes. Hence he Academy itself. Captain Hitchcock : Well that's absurd. By your standard, every crime committed by a Christian will be a stain on Christ. Augustus Landor : And so it is. Sign In Sign In.

The pale blue eye imdb thought this was a solid murder mystery. Please try again. While I haven't read the novel the film is based on, I strongly suspect that despite its nifty premise -- "Hey, let's set a murder mystery at West Point when Poe was a cadet there!

Sign In Sign In. New Customer? Create account. Movie title comes from the following: "One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture -- a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees -- very gradually -- I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye for ever. Edgar Allan Poe actually attended West Point for a while around , and had already seen the first of his poetry published.

Sign In. The Pale Blue Eye Hide Spoilers. Not an extraordinary detective, but a really solid one. The good; director Scott Cooper is a craftsman at building up suspense. That feeling under my skin that something is about to happen. A mysterious, eery feeling permeates throughout this entire, mesmirizing story. And it gets more intense and mysterious towards the final One of my favorite actors and he has got the gift of method acting. He becomes the part.

The pale blue eye imdb

One thing a movie watcher might not be looking for during the actual bleak midwinter is more bleak midwinter on the screen. The chilliness fits the story of course. At the Academy, a cadet, named Fry, is discovered not just dead—by hanging, it is first presumed—but with his heart cut out. The extremely spooked overseers of the school, fearful of scandal that might strike a death blow to the place, enlist a retired lawman to investigate. He likes to drink, has a sleeping partner in a warm-hearted tavern owner Charlotte Gainsbourg , and is prone to melancholy despite his dry wit. Removing the hearts of corpses—there will be another—is suggestive of quite a bit. And soon Landor is sniffing into matters of devil worship.

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Except for Poe, I found it hard to tell the various cadets apart; they all looked stern and talked in haughty, stagey-sounding accents. Bale is convincing as the tough, canny detective haunted by the death of his wife and the disappearance of his daughter. The cinematography captures the chilliness of the winter setting, with beautiful grayscale images broken up by flashes of blue. Cadet Huntoon Orlagh Cassidy Worth a Watch. Edit The Pale Blue Eye Editorial Producer Marissa Chen Dolby Digital. While the story of Maddison is very sad it set up a great twist at the end. The tavern existed from the earliest days of the Academy and as of this movie's release, a bar using this historic name still exists in Highland Falls, NY.

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Patsy Lucy Boynton Clear your history. But I don't read the reviews on here anymore, only the real critics. This is a movie that caught my attention early into the year. You'll understand when you see the movie. The location, which is covered in snow, adds to the atmosphere and the nature of the crimes gives a sense of the macabre. What I will say here is that he is the world-weary detective. It's great acting and while horror may not be this directors accomplished art yet, it's so much better than most horror movies I watch. Julia Marquis. The atmosphere is mind-blowing, especially when watched during a winter night.