Tonight I watched Surveillance, the latest release in what we'll call the ongoing experiment of DVD, On Demand and TV simultaneous releases. In order to bypass the fees, I DVR'd the film from Mark Cuban's HDNet.
I'll be honest and say that I'm not all too interested in this stuff, so I'll save that discussion for the time when I become interested in it. I will say that I like it though. Options are better. Giving us more ways to watch movies makes more people watch movies, which is very important. Giving us different price points also helps a lot, especially when there is the option for those who follow the release dates to watch it for free. I honestly don't know anyone else who does that though, rather people wait to read the reviews and order it On Demand for seven dollars.
So this entry was the first film from Jennifer Lynch (spawn of David Lynch, the dude with major fear of fatherhood issues, i.e. Eraserhead) in fifteen years. Her last was Boxing Helena, yeah the one where the weirdo puts the girl in a box and then cuts off all her limbs for the ultimate form of possession. There was a twist in that film that really didn't affect the actual narrative at all, but rather just negated it completely. It spun it in a direction that was more of a cop out than anything else. The twist allowed Lynch to not have to explain or resolve the convoluted plot she got herself into.
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