Dark, brutal, hypnotic; these are a few choice adjectives
you could use to describe Danny Boyle’s latest psychological thriller,
“Trance.” The “Trainspotting” director is no stranger to this shadowy
territory—remember the arm-cutting scene in “127 Hours”—but we’re talking an
entirely different level here. At one point the top of a man’s head is blown
clean off, yet his mouth keeps talking, and there’s a rotting corpse that’s as
horrific as anything you’ll see in the most gruesome horror film. And let us not
forget to mention the fingernail pulling and the dick shooting, which are both
not to be missed. Not for the squeamish, there’s a gleeful layer of the macabre
to this noir tale.
