Elliot Pane is a man with a very unsavoury hobby . He takes pictures of scantily clad young woman and posts them up on a voyeuristic website . One day he visits the website and is shocked to find that one of the victims featured is his own teenage daughter
SLR is written and directed by Stephen Fingleton and is based along the lines of that infamous urban legend where a bloke comes back from the pub drunk and finds his flat mate rogering a woman from behind and is invited to take over and as soon as he's started the woman turns round and said bloke is shocked to discover that the woman in fact is his own sister . This myth was popular enough for the likes of FHM and Loaded to publish requests that people stop sending in this anecdote because it was old hat and this was away back in the mid 1990s
As I said this is an extention of this myth and becomes a tale of revenge . If you think it's something of stretch believing some old perv wanting to extract revenge against a similar minded individual stop to consider the happenings on the nonce wing of a prison where paedophiles who molest other peoples kids view paedophiles who molest their own kids as having stepped over a line in to depravity and are subject to a violent self righteous kicking . Those who molest their kids see their opposite numbers in the same outraged light . It's the same with a serial rapist would view a child killer and if the evil of these criminals isn't enough to churn your stomach their hypocrisy will so Elliot Pane's motives are strikingly realistic
There is however a problem with all this and that's Stephen's film is perhaps a little too effective due to the material . Liam Cunningham as Pane is very well cast indeed . I'm pretty certain he's a great guy in real life but I've always found him menacing and creepy in everything he's been in and SLR is no exception especially since he plays a voyeur . He doesn't need to say much as his haunted , gaunt wrinkled face does all the talking and despite not doing much with the camera Stephen Fingleton makes a effective short film that is so effective that you might want to take a long hot shower and scrub yourself with disinfectant after seeing it
SLR is written and directed by Stephen Fingleton and is based along the lines of that infamous urban legend where a bloke comes back from the pub drunk and finds his flat mate rogering a woman from behind and is invited to take over and as soon as he's started the woman turns round and said bloke is shocked to discover that the woman in fact is his own sister . This myth was popular enough for the likes of FHM and Loaded to publish requests that people stop sending in this anecdote because it was old hat and this was away back in the mid 1990s
As I said this is an extention of this myth and becomes a tale of revenge . If you think it's something of stretch believing some old perv wanting to extract revenge against a similar minded individual stop to consider the happenings on the nonce wing of a prison where paedophiles who molest other peoples kids view paedophiles who molest their own kids as having stepped over a line in to depravity and are subject to a violent self righteous kicking . Those who molest their kids see their opposite numbers in the same outraged light . It's the same with a serial rapist would view a child killer and if the evil of these criminals isn't enough to churn your stomach their hypocrisy will so Elliot Pane's motives are strikingly realistic
There is however a problem with all this and that's Stephen's film is perhaps a little too effective due to the material . Liam Cunningham as Pane is very well cast indeed . I'm pretty certain he's a great guy in real life but I've always found him menacing and creepy in everything he's been in and SLR is no exception especially since he plays a voyeur . He doesn't need to say much as his haunted , gaunt wrinkled face does all the talking and despite not doing much with the camera Stephen Fingleton makes a effective short film that is so effective that you might want to take a long hot shower and scrub yourself with disinfectant after seeing it