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James Harvey
04-25-2002, 11:42 AM
No Soul Is Safe
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"Only demons should fear me.... and you're not a demon, are you?" - Dad Meiks

Release Date: April 12, 2002
Studio: Lions Gate Films
Director: Bill Paxton
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Derk Cheetwood, Blake King, Luke Askew, Brad Berryhill, Powers Boothe

Plot Summary: Set in present day Texas, "Frailty" centers on the FBI's search for a serial killer who calls himself "God's Hands.” McConaughey plays Fenton Meeks, a young man who approaches the lead investigator, one night, claiming he knows the identity of the killer. The FBI agent is curious, but unimpressed until Fenton reveals that the killer is his younger brother Adam. In the style of "The Usual Suspects," Fenton recounts in a series of flashbacks, how he and his brother grew up in a very loving family, raised by their widowed father (Paxton). All that changed, the day his father awoke, believing he had been visited by an angel and given a mission to destroy "demons" – seemingly normal looking people, who walked this earth as pure evil. Fenton’s father, and then his brother Adam, swore to carry out this ‘divine’ mission. Fenton refused to participate in the killings and tried to persuade his brother to do the same, but it was obvious to him that they had ‘snapped.’ Out of loyalty however, he refused to go to the police, until now. Believing Fenton’s startling tale of the slaughter of innocents, the FBI agent follows Fenton to the family’s rose garden only to be surprised that neither evil nor innocence are what they seem.

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Comments?


Last night I went to finally see the movie Frailty after waiting for weeks...and I wasn't dissapointed. A haunting and disturbing movie if there ever was one, probably one of the best thrillers in recent memory. Bill Paxton does a great job as the well meaning but disturbed father. This was just a really good and creepy movie, especially when Adam finishes the job that his dad could not. I recommend this movie for anyone who enjoys a great psychological movie. The movie deserves all the critical acclaim it gets. t's not a bright and shiney picture, but a dark and disturbing one.

Mattashell
04-26-2002, 04:28 AM
Another (would be) incredible movie ruined by a completely stupid ending. They just couldn't leave things up to the viewer to decide. File this one with Fight Club and The Sixth Sense.

Stupendous Man
04-26-2002, 02:52 PM
Your right Jim .. this was a good movie - disturbing and thought provoking.

Here are some of the questions I had about the movie -


1 ) This might be the movies only plothole but ...
Its implied that the brother - who was against killing innocents from the start , and wants his brother to stop -
begins killing people as the "Gods Hand Killer" leaving clues
for the authorities .. so his brother will be caught and stop killing innocent people.

Ummm .. first this seemed remarkably out of character.
Second its twisted logic ..to kill so your brother will get caught and stop killing.
Finally .. why not just go to the authorities (much in the way that Mathew Mc. went ?)

2) God orders the dad to kill the older son because of lack of faith .. Is it not disturbing that lack of faith is apparently an offense worthy of Gods vengence and death ?
Wasnt it God who gave us free will ?

3) Isnt the older child justified in all of his actions right up to the
point where he has the final confrontation with the father?

4) The movie call the listed as "demons" in human form.. but really it just seems like the victims were ordinary people who commited horrendously evil acts. Does the movie imply that these are human influenced by "demons " to do the devils work .. or that humans who live counter to gods edicts are "demons".

Keep in mind that at the end the sibling who is "destroyed " is
reffered to as a demon.

Interesting movie .. most of my friends havents seen it .. Im curious what the forums thoughts are.