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Sep 6, 2024 · Craig Zobel approached "Compliance" with a clear vision to portray the disturbing real-life incident with authenticity and impact. He chose to film in a claustrophobic fast-food restaurant setting, heightening the tension and discomfort felt by viewers.
Compliance is a 2012 American thriller film written and directed by Craig Zobel and starring Ann Dowd, Dreama Walker, Pat Healy, and Bill Camp. The plot of the movie is closely based upon an actual strip search phone call scam that took place in Mount Washington, Kentucky in 2004, although the names of the real-life figures were changed.
Dec 6, 2020 · Despite the unsettling context of Compliance, Zobel never looks to exploit Becky’s trauma and, instead, his film paints a dark portrait of working-class middle America, allowing his camera to focus on surroundings awash with the alienation of a corporate society and fast food consumerism.
Aug 17, 2012 · Compliance tells its sordid tale in understated, almost-documentary style. Zobel does not wallow in the degradations imposed on Becky, but neither does his camera shy from them.
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Aug 10, 2012 · THE writer-director Craig Zobel makes modestly scaled movies about ordinary people in unadorned settings that also happen to concern the greatest of mysteries: the hows and whys of human behavior.
Sep 21, 2012 · Does she envy Becky? Is she a victim or a perpetrator? "The part for me that's fascinating is how does it happen beat by beat," says Zobel, who adds that he empathised with every character.
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Aug 16, 2012 · Psychology Today recently co-hosted a screening of Craig Zobel's acclaimed film Compliance. The film is an examination of a real-world Milgram experiment, conducted not in the name of...
