It turns out, however he couldn't even bring himself to ruin the Will Yorkin he knows through photographs he destroyed that cartridge of film and used the other to take pictures of random objects in his own hotel room. All for Nothing: Sy forces himself into Will and Maya's hotel room, threatens them at knifepoint and makes them pose in pornographic manners while he takes snapshots.Abusive Parents: It is strongly implied by Sy at the end of the movie, that his parents sexually abused him and used him for child pornography. Despite digital photography making photo developing somewhat obsolete, the movie is still incredibly effective as a psychological thriller. Released to critical and commercial success, this movie gave Williams a much-needed Career Resurrection and, along with Insomnia and Death to Smoochy, helped usher in the so-called "dark period" of the actor's career, where he brought disturbing subtexts of his protagonists to the forefront after spending several years making movies considered by the public to be overly maudlin. Longing for the idyllic life he perceives through their pictures, Sy tries repeatedly to insert himself into the Yorkins' lives.Īfter stumbling upon a dark secret within the family, Sy tries to take action about it, but his efforts to save the Yorkins' picture-perfect life end up affecting it in ways none of them could ever imagine. Over the course of many years, he has coped with the loneliness in his life through a slow-building obsession with the Yorkins, a textbook modern American middle-class family - husband Will, wife Nina, and son Jake - who are among his regular customers. He's clean-cut and quite ordinary to the point of boring, but not all is well in Sy's world. Seymour "Sy" Parrish (Williams) works as a technician at a supermarket's one-hour photo developing clinic. One Hour Photo is a 2002 psychological thriller film directed by Mark Romanek and starring Robin Williams. No one ever takes a photograph of something they want to forget." Someone looking through our photo album would conclude that we had led a joyous, leisurely existence. "People take pictures of the happy moments in their lives.
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