The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

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The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

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Asia Argento, Cole Sprouse, Dylan Sprouse, Jeremy Renner, Jeremy Sisto

Seven-year-old Jeremiah lived a calm, comfortable life in the care of a loving foster home until the day his young mother Sarah (Argento) came to take him back. Jeremiah is thrust against his will int...( read more  read more... )o his mother's reckless life of turmoil and depravity, bouncing between desolate truck-stops, flea bag motels, strip joints and drug dens. Deadbeat surrogate dads swoop in and out of Jeremiah's life until he finds himself in the custody of his ultra-religious grandparents. Soon after Jeremiah adapts to his new life as a Christian fundamentalist, Sarah returns to claim him. Back on the road and bound by a love only a mother and son could have for each other, Sarah pulls Jeremiah further and further into her dementia. When Sarah is finally and wholly consumed by drugs, prostitution and violence, Jeremiah is forced into a desperate struggle to survive the madness of his surroundings.

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  • emerson17
    June 17, 2008
    emerson17
    I've been waiting for this movie for 29 long, trivial and useless years.
    Anyway, I'm pretty sure that if David Lynch was God, Asia Argento would be...the Holy Spirit. Or something of that sort. You got my point don't you?
  • mistershinobi
    May 5, 2008
    mistershinobi
    I couldn't go past the first 5 minutes. It's just too much to handle. I don't know if I will finish seeing it, it's not probable.
  • habitualdamnation
    March 2, 2008
    habitualdamnation
    This film is fucked up above all things - but who can know it? This is the kind of movie that could be worked to produce a five-star film - but who am I to judge eh? This kid actor will never grow up normal now will he!
  • crackingdanio
    December 30, 2007
    crackingdanio
    disturbing story,though it has its moments
  • madmac17
    September 12, 2007
    madmac17
    There is some seriously disturbing shit happening in this film, and most of it is happening to a young boy named Jeremiah (Jimmy Bennett, Dylan & Cole Sprouse). Asia Argento directs, and stars as Jeremiah's mother Sarah, and to call her the 'mother from hell' would be a huge unde...( read more)rstatement. The film brings to mind Sherrybaby with Maggie Gyllenhaal, but Sherry from that film is a 'mother of the year' candidate compared to Sarah. As the movie opens, young Jeremiah is being taken forcibly from what appears to be a loving foster home by his mother, who has somehow managed to regain custody. It's a mystery why she would actually want her son back, since he seems to seriously cramp her style. That 'style' includes booze, drugs and a never-ending procession of Mr. Wrongs she picks up at various honky-tonks and bars. I see her as Nancy in search of her Sid. At one point she's actually wearing a t-shirt that says 'Sid Lives'. I'm guessing the only reason she wants her son back is to get revenge on the people who took him from her in the first place. Whatever her reasons, she does get him back, and immediately begins to poison his mind against his former foster parents so he'll see her as a better alternative! That takes a lot of poisoning, but Sarah is up to the task, and after she's scared him out of his wits he agrees to stay with her. During the course of the movie, she gives him drugs and tells him it's medicine, dresses him up in women's clothes and make-up and tells him he should've been a girl, and leaves him on his own for a weekend while she goes off to Las Vegas to marry her boyfriend du jour, Emerson, played by Jeremy Renner (Dahmer, 12 and Holding). Emerson later returns from Vegas alone, Sarah having run off and left him! Of course, he then takes out his frustrations on young Jeremiah, who ends up in the custody of Child Welfare. Sarah eventually returns, but having apparently decided motherhood is not her thing, she delivers Jeremiah to the household of someone she calls Grandma. It appears to be some kind of religious halfway house for wayward children, presided over with an iron hand by Grandfather (Peter Fonda, exuding menace). After 3 or 4 years, by which time Jeremiah has become a young soldier for Jesus, Sarah returns and takes him on the road with her once again. And so on, and so on. The movie has style to burn, as Argento shows she inherited some of her famous father's directing talent. She's also completely convincing in the role of Sarah. There's a scene early on where Jeremiah is being beaten with a belt by one of Sarah's boyfriends, while she stands by smirking, that will make you want to get your hands around her throat and squeeze. The three young actors who play Jeremiah are astonishingly good as well. I just hope appearing in this film hasn't caused them any irreparable emotional damage. The film is hard to watch at times, but it's never boring, and the soundtrack fits in nicely with Sarah's grunge lifestyle. I'm just not sure exactly what the filmmakers are trying to accomplish. We all know that child abuse is a terrible thing. We don't have to see it graphically portrayed on screen for 90 minutes, do we?
  • iamuncool
    November 15, 2009
    iamuncool
    Very disturbing. If you're into such, then you should definitely see this. But since I'm not, I give this three stars. Asia Argento is an amazing actress and director.
  • MisterTuttle
    September 15, 2009
    MisterTuttle
    I don't know. Seeing one of the Sprouse brothers dress up like a girl and then gets raped by Marilyn Manson was blehhhhh. Going into this you'll see no resolution and since the book was eventually found out to be false it feels not important to see this film unless you are a fan ...( read more)of Asia Argento.
  • ahhh1989
    August 27, 2009
    ahhh1989
    Extremely brutal, sad, harrowing, graphic, and uncompromising, but also extremely well made. I felt perverted for watching it, but I definitely admired the way it was constructed and acted.
  • dreamingovbetterdays
    July 24, 2009
    dreamingovbetterdays
    Amazingly powerful LOVED IT
  • pixiedust1967
    July 22, 2009
    pixiedust1967
    What a brilliant movie and Asia Argento is so beautiful! This is one of my favorite movies.
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