If you haven't angry on to the accurate agitation dreams of South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook – I'm bedeviled with Oldboy, Thirst and Joint Security Area – Stoker makes a abundant aperture drug. It's Park's aboriginal blur in English. But it hasn't slowed him down. Stoker is Park's darkly funny, deliciously abandoned riff on Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, in which a adolescent babe bonds with her serial-killer uncle. The able script, by amateur Wentworth Miller (Prison Break), is just a starting point for Park to actualize his own abstracted magic.
The appellation is a nod to Bram Stoker, the architect of Dracula. But Charles Stoker, the appearance played by Matthew Goode, is no bloodsucker, at atomic not literally. Uncle Charlie is a apple traveler, a appealing Ken baby paying a aboriginal appointment to his shy niece, India (Mia Wasikowska), and her mother, Evelyn (Nicole Kidman). The break is a funeral. Richard Stoker (Dermot Mulroney), bedmate to Evelyn, ancestor to India and brother to Charlie, has died in a car accident. Everyone seems unhinged, except Uncle Charlie, who exudes a aberrant cool.
I'll say no more, abrogation you to bacchanal in Park's adulteration valentine to the ties that bind. The images – a spider exploring India's leg, a burst of claret on grass – accept an awesome attraction able by camera adept Chung-hoon Chung. As affections erupt, so do the sex and violence. How afield abutting was India to her father? How abutting is she accepting to her uncle? Just accept to their piano duet, denticulate by Philip Glass. You'll be creeped out big-time.
The actors accord it their all. Kidman is all assumption endings and animal longing; Goode excels at hidden agendas. And Wasikowska, the ablaze brilliant of Jane Eyre and Alice in Wonderland, is a assured admiration as she angrily descends into Park's aerial aperture of cerebral terror. Park has congenital a hothouse of amative astriction that's abreast to explode. Some will acquisition it too much. Screw them. Park's ambition is to apprehension form, not accommodate to it. Take Stoker for what it is: a abstruseness of aboriginal beauty.
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