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The Limehouse Golem is kind of a weirdly shot Victorian murder thriller, that takes an incredibly bizarre detour in the middle. Bill Nighy is a Victorian detective trying to track down a serial killer, and the only clue he has is what appears to be the Golem's diary, scrawled in the margins of a library book. He tracks down everybody who was in the library on a certain day, and gets them to write down sections of the diary as he dictates them, to compare their handwriting. This is mostly an excuse for some very stylised flashbacks, where we see the suspect, as the Golem, enacting grisly murders, with all sorts of dramatic lighting and distortion effects, and the narration shifts to the suspect dubbed over with a strange demonic voice. It's obnoxiously modern and flashy for what's supposed to be a period piece, but it's creepy enough. It's all fairly normal, until Billy Nighy goes to interrogate Karl Marx, and we're treated to an extended sequence of Karl Marx decapitating a prostitute before Bill Nighy snaps "well this is absurd" and Karl Marx is never seen or mentioned again. It's a very odd film.
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Hand Knit posted:The scene exceeds expectations. Glad to be of assistance! Also the guy who plays the junior police officer has a wonderful period-drama face, and now I want him to star in a Dishonored movie.
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