The Adjuster (1991)
Country: CAN
Technical: col 102m
Director: Atom Egoyan
Cast: Elias Koteas, Arsinée Khanjian, Maury Chaykin
Synopsis:
An insurance company loss adjuster has a reputation for humanity in his dealings with claimants, whom he puts up in a motel. He also meets them for sex. Meanwhile his wife is a film censor who secretly records the pornography she vets so that her sister can see what she does. Their lives are disrupted by the arrival of a photographer/voyeur who wants to use their house, ostensibly for a film.
Review:
A parallel appears to be drawn between censorship/classification and the business of drawing up inventories of personal possessions when the most important things cannot be replaced after a domestic fire. Is it, then, a cry against censorship? The ending suggests that the central couple, having abandoned their home willingly for the motel, have nothing moral/spiritual in their lives.
Country: CAN
Technical: col 102m
Director: Atom Egoyan
Cast: Elias Koteas, Arsinée Khanjian, Maury Chaykin
Synopsis:
An insurance company loss adjuster has a reputation for humanity in his dealings with claimants, whom he puts up in a motel. He also meets them for sex. Meanwhile his wife is a film censor who secretly records the pornography she vets so that her sister can see what she does. Their lives are disrupted by the arrival of a photographer/voyeur who wants to use their house, ostensibly for a film.
Review:
A parallel appears to be drawn between censorship/classification and the business of drawing up inventories of personal possessions when the most important things cannot be replaced after a domestic fire. Is it, then, a cry against censorship? The ending suggests that the central couple, having abandoned their home willingly for the motel, have nothing moral/spiritual in their lives.
Country: CAN
Technical: col 102m
Director: Atom Egoyan
Cast: Elias Koteas, Arsinée Khanjian, Maury Chaykin
Synopsis:
An insurance company loss adjuster has a reputation for humanity in his dealings with claimants, whom he puts up in a motel. He also meets them for sex. Meanwhile his wife is a film censor who secretly records the pornography she vets so that her sister can see what she does. Their lives are disrupted by the arrival of a photographer/voyeur who wants to use their house, ostensibly for a film.
Review:
A parallel appears to be drawn between censorship/classification and the business of drawing up inventories of personal possessions when the most important things cannot be replaced after a domestic fire. Is it, then, a cry against censorship? The ending suggests that the central couple, having abandoned their home willingly for the motel, have nothing moral/spiritual in their lives.