Ok, I might be a little fucked up for liking this movie,
but I do, rarely am I disturbed by a film anymore but "The Treatment" shocked me and I love when a film is able to do that while telling a compelling story.
The premise is that a police inspector named Nick Cafmeyer is haunted by the memory of his younger brothers abduction while he tries to chase down a serial killer. While Nick is pursuing the killer the chief suspect who abducted his brother all those years ago and was never sentenced, arrives outside the policeman's house taunting him on a near nightly basis pushing him to his breaking point.
The thing The Treatment does better than nearly every film involving sexual predators and serial killers is that it is unafraid to show these people as they truly are. A serial killer is not the eloquent and intimidating Dr Lecter toying with Clarice Starling behind a window of reinforced glass. A real serial killer is a disgusting, vile, sick and mentally depraved person who is controlled by their perversions and compulsions to do terrible, terrible things and that is what you see in this film, the reality of the subject as far removed from glamorization as you can possibly get.
His modus operandi is too disturbing for me to write,
just know this, it's shocking, even if you don't see it,
in some ways for that fact it's even more effective.
if you like true detective and aren't completely turned off by child abuse being part of a films narrative I would definitely watch it,
it's a deeply engrossing and brutally dark thriller.
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