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Loneliness can be dangerous
One Hour Photo feels like a small stone tossed into a secluded lake, where the suprising ripple effect can be intimately felt by anyone in the vicinity. Sy Parrish (Robin Williams) is the lonely guy that creeps into your personal life, trespassing on your mind and inner feelings. <
>The window he uses to crawl inside is through the family photographs. He is the "mad scientist" at the photo lab, and his customers are his main project. He puts an overabundance of care into every meticulous detail of his craft, a complete perfectionist when it comes to developing pictures. <
>This might not be a problem except he becomes so absorbed with one particular family. He makes extra copies of their photos, and takes them home to put on his wall. His obsession builds steadily as the film progresses. Pictures say 1000 words, and after awhile, Sy feels like part of the family. <
>When "Uncle Sy" realizes this family isn't as perfect as he wants them to be, he takes measures to correct it. Drastic measures. As the tension builds toward the climax, it will often make you uncomfortable watching him work. <
>This is a very character driven story. Williams carries the entire thing, with his blank stares and subtle getures. He's great in a creepy role! <
>I also liked the art direction and cinematography in this movie. The color and lighting schemes look very much like Stanley Kubrick's work, with stunningly bright, cool colors, giving a cold antiseptic feel. <
>One Hour Photo is a small film with universal themes of family, loneliness, insecurities, infidelity, and feelings of privacy. You might feel a little violated after watching it.

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Great film
My favorite robin williams movie. Rally good atmosphere and the whole realistic creepy elements are perfect, a very re-watchable film.

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About Schmidt is the better, fat, old guy on a toilet movie, but
...One Hour Photo is the more watchable film. Romanek's MTV eye betrays the absurdly phony family scenes, but the SavMart stuff has a unique aesthetic appeal, if only because big-budget movies are rarely set in brightly-lit stores and malls where so many of us spend so much of our lives. After nine plus hours of dank and dark Hobbit opera, this film is the perfect palate cleanser. My favorite scene involves Sy arguing with the technician about color shifts or some such thing--it's just so relatably banal. Nobody's saving the world or falling in love. The predictable third-act hysterics bring us back to movieland but, overall, a memorable semi-cult flick.