#438: Dial 'M' For Manhunt, Pt. 2 — Trap

The Next Picture Show

Telegraph Road Productions

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Film History

4.6 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Is it a bit unfair to compare M. Night Shyamalan’s new grip-it-and-rip-it thriller TRAP to Fritz Lang’s 1931 cinematic landmark M? Sure, but that’s the name of the game here on The Next Picture Show, and for all of TRAP’s faults — which we try not to take too much glee in enumerating in this discussion — it does work, however awkwardly, as an extrapolation of the ideas and narrative techniques first established in Lang’s film. From its interest in exploring the mind of a serial killer to its depiction of law-enforcement overreach, there’s plenty in TRAP that feels like it’s echoing M, though whether Shyamalan does so with enough purpose to suggest a larger thematic statement like M’s is another question entirely. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about M, TRAP, or anything else in the world of film, by sending an email or voice memo to [email protected], or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730. Next Pairing: Fede Álvarez’s ALIEN: ROMULUS and James Cameron’s ALIENS. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:26.2	It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.
0:33.3	You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?
0:39.9	We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.
0:47.3	Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie the week podcast of a to a classic film
0:51.4	in the way it shaped our thoughts on our recent release.
0:53.7	I'm Keith Phipps,
0:54.5	here again with Genevieve Kosky, Scott Tobias, and Tasha Robinson. In our last episode, we discussed
1:00.2	M. Fritz Lang's landmark city-spanning crime thore about the hunt for a serial killer preying on
1:05.5	the children of Berlin. This week we turned to Trap, the latest from another otter, M. Night Shamelin.
1:11.6	Wait, is the M in his name an homage to M the movie?
1:15.1	What a twist, right?
1:16.5	In Trap, Josh Hartnett plays Cooper, a 40-ish-Philadelphia dad we meet Gainly taking his teenage
1:21.7	daughter to a concert put on by Lady Raven, a pop star played by Shalika Knight Shumlin. But Cooper, it's quickly revealed,
1:28.7	is not just a nice dad. He's also a serial killer. The police have dubbed the butcher
1:33.2	for gross reasons that we'll learn later. Also, quickly revealed, he's been drawn into a,
1:38.4	as the title suggests, trap. The concert is heavily pleased because of evidence suggesting
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