Monday 22 March 2010

The Passion of Darkly Noon (1995)


(SPOILER ALERT: DO NOT READ THIS POST IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW HOW IT ALL ENDS)

[Now for another example of a mini Plot Buster created to help confirm a particular movie's title from a series of plot points.]

The Passion of Darkly Noon (1995) Written and directed by Philip Ridley, starring Brendan Fraser, Ashley Judd and Viggo Mortensen.

It all ends with Brendan Fraser being shot to death.

Fraser, in the title role, plays a rather simple youth with a passion for flagellation, recently expelled from the religious cult in which he grew up.

He is taken in by a slightly strange group of three friends, one of whom, played by Ashley Judd, he becomes infatuated with after overseeing her sunbathing topless, despite the fact that she already has a boyfriend in Viggo Mortensen.

Unfortunately, Judd's crazed mother, who disapproves of her daughter's choice of Mortensen, plays on Fraser's naivety and former cult beliefs in order to convince him to attack the couple.

During the ensuing fight Judd is barely able to make Fraser see sense, before the third member of the group bursts on the scene to save the couple from Fraser's attack by shotgunning him to death.


It's all a bit tragic, really.


Source(s):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passion_of_Darkly_Noon