Adapted By: Michael Gerbosi
From A Book By: Robert Graysmith
Presented or rather translated in a complete narrative objectivity, giving the film a sense of hostility, that lack of the subjective in said presentation separates it, from when it is functioning as a character study, and the overall assumption of biography. This however, is matched by it's visual sensibilities which find an equal objectivity in their internal overt contrast.
The former sense, that is "of hostility" and the latter, that is "of separation" are exacerbated by the repetitious nature of the "disturbing scenes", which are problematically stark in their separation from the scenes that actually further the narrative.
Schrader tells the story from a surprisingly moralist perspective. And utilizes that perspective as a fortification from which to throw stones at the central characters for the entire duration of the film.
He shows his audience that Crane is a perverted individual repeatedly but never challenges us to do something with that information.
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