The Adjuster
by Atom Egoyan
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Actor: Arsinée Khanjian, Elias Koteas, Gabrielle Rose, Jennifer Dale, Maury ChaykinDirector: Atom Egoyan
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 102 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-04-10
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of The Adjuster
DVD Review: Adjusting to the Adjuster
Summary: 3 Stars
Adjusting oneself to the Adjuster, 27 September 2002
Author: mike rice (...) from United States
I've decided that Egoyan is a minimalist. Not only are great gaps created on purpose in the Egoyan film script, an enormous amount of dialogue is left unwritten as well. Including the Adjuster I have seen at least three of his films. Exotica is the one I remember the least, the Sweet Hereafter the one I recall best. Sweet Hereafter was closer to being a conventional film, its script an adaptation of a best-selling novel.
But the Egoyan filmstyle was visible in Sweet Hereafter too. It took a couple of viewings before I realized the father of the young girl in Hereafter was having sex with his daughter before her involvement in the accident. It is an instance when leaving something not quite spoken or noted works out beautifully in the script.
At least in the three films I have seen, unconventional sexual tastes are also a recurrent theme. Egoyan is obsessed with them. I think he believes everyone is obsessed with sex in their own way. I believe he is right, but this Director finds ways to make his characters borderline pervs while at the same time stressing their conventionality.
An unanswered question in Adjuster is how the crazed ex-footballer and filmmaker cum fantasist managed to find the adjuster. Also, one of the fantasist's retinue of females managed to appear before the Adjuster's wife on the subway, midway through the film. This is the woman in red who sits next to the decrepit bum after he has revealed his state, and puts his hand in her crotch and smiles joyously at the rest of the subway passengers. Later the Adjuster's porn-censoring wife repeats the inverse of the same gesture on herself when the 28 year old rookie film censor arranges to view some porn alone with her. There is also the question of what this woman is actually doing with the outtakes she films with a video camera. Her story about the camera being a way to show her sister what she does is not convincing.
Yes, do go back and see the film again. There's all kinds of stuff in it.
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