Chapter 27 Reviews

Honestly, I wasn't sure what to expect from this flick but I was still eager to check it out. I mean, Lindsay Lohan's career has become pretty abysmal lately and this movie was the only one who seemed to have at least some potential. Since I started to talk about Lohan, I should add that you wonder why she was there in the first place. I mean, she only had 2 or 3 scenes, her performance was rather weak and it was rather unconvincing that a pretty girl like her would hang out with a creep like Chapman for no real reason. A part from that, the whole thing was rather misguided. I mean, right from the start, they tell you at the beginning that they won't give any details about his past or his background which was a big mistake. Seriously, if you don't develop this, what have you then to tell? Nothing much, I'm afraid. Indeed, you basically follow Chapman for a couple of days, doing basically nothing, except mumbling some crazy stuff about various subjects. What remains is a rather bewildering performance by Jared Leto. Indeed, he gained 30 kilos, apparently damaging his health in the process and while there was something quite spellbinding about his performance, you wonder if it was really worth it for such an empty movie. Anyway, to conclude, I guess my rating for this movie might be a little too generous but, somehow, I still think it is worth a look.

Um tanto quanto subestimado, o trabalho do roteirista e diretor J.P. Schaefer, Chapter 27, lançado em Sundance 2007, evoca a conhecida obsessão do assassino de John Lennon pelo personagem principal da obra “The Catcher in the Rye” de J.D. Salinger, que possui 26 capítulos.

Schaefer mergulha na obscura peregrinação de Mark David Chapman nos dias que antecedem seu crime infame. Sua exímia interpretação sugere uma introspecção acerca de sua obsessão por John Lennon mais do que uma tentativa de explicar seus motivos. Nos poucos momentos que não envolvem os solilóquios de Chapman, surge a personagem de Lindsay Lohan, que engata um despretensioso diálogo entre fãs mas não demora a perceber algo errado no comportamento de Letto, que engordou mais de 20 quilos para dar veracidade necessária nesta fita minimalista e inteligente ao desconfigurar os atributos sobre e sub-humanos entre o psicopata e o ídolo.

Coincidências (aleatórias ou não) Mark Lindsay Chapman é o nome do ator que interpreta John Lennon. No mais, talvez esta não seja uma influência de que Salinger se orgulhasse mas demonstra o arrebatamento lírico de sua atemporal e mais cultuada obra.