Thrillers are more popular than ever. Just look at the best -rated movies that are transmitted Netflix Any specific week, and you will find at least one of them that is poured on top. It is not difficult to understand why, just as mounting a roller coaster, we like to put ourselves in a simulation of danger without facing real consequences.
This week is new but already, Netflix has a new thriller on its most popular movies list. (Well, it’s not really new, it was actually published 30 years ago.) CopycatA suspense movie about a serial killer imitates past infamous killers crimes is the time test. It has not come out a bit, and it could be published today with minimal changes and it still makes sense.
Copycat It’s a favorite movie here at Look with usAnd we are sharing some reasons why you should put it in the tail of Netflix right now.
Copycat’s premise is so good
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Helen Hudson (Sigourney weaver) He is a world -renowned criminal psychologist specializing in profiling serial killers. Like Wolverine, is the best in what you do, but it has been forced to retire firstHarry Connick Jr.)). It cannot be blamed: Daryll Lee killed two police officers before him before he almost killed it.
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Do not cry too much for Helen: he spends his time in his Palatine house in San Francisco playing chess with strangers online and barely manages a serious case of PSD and Agoraphobia with a constant diet of pills and liquors. Her bright mind is not leisure but cannot help that a recent killers chain is related to her strange and deliberate similarities with the Boston StranglerThe crimes Twenty years ago.
Sigourney weaver in copycat
Warner Bros.His observations soon attract the attention of two detectives, MJ Monahan (Holly Hunter) and relocation goetz (Dermot Mulrone)). Together, they try to solve the mystery of this Copycat killer as he claims other victims while imitating other famous murderers such as Son of Sam and Jeffrey Dahmer.
We have already seen many films of serial killer. Only in 1995, there was an avalanche, with David Finchers Thirst with Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman Being the most successful and acclaimed by criticism. Only Copycat One-ups to their peers to be thriller around Serial killers: What drives them, how they execute their crimes and why we are so fascinated with them.
Copycat It uses an entertaining premise to subtly point a finger to the public. Why is it nice to see people murdered? And why do we get the detectives try to see the mystery before they are also threatened?
The killer’s revelation is genius (No Spoilers!)
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Copycat It also subverts the convention to be a thriller where the revelation of the killer does not matter. This is not a Agatha Christie The mystery to learn the identity of the murderer is the climax of the film. Instead, Copycat Disclose who is the murderer around the middle of the film without much fanfare. Towards the end, you realize that the killer has always been there, searching in the background and seeing the police trying to catch someone who is in the same room with them.
It is an ingenious movement on the part of the writers, Ann Biderman and David Madsen, who not only show who the killer is, but we approach them once we know who they are. See you near how they work and the little value they have for human life. This is what it does Copycat So efficient: gives a human face to evil and makes us look helpless, as they do contemptible to innocent people.
The score is creepy, in a good way!
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Thrillers trust their scores more than most other genres and CopycatThe music is top -notch. Composed by Christopher YoungThe score immediately establishes the mood in the opening credits, which suggests that a danger that will not spend two hours more.
Later, when several people run from the murderer and the killer, Young pumps their score, giving the action on the screen an emergency and a greater despair. The music itself is scary, suggests you are What was pursued instead of seeing a persecution unfolds.
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Look at the opening scene in the previous clip and listen to how Young uses the volume to give rhythm and depth when Helen is first attacked in a woman’s bathroom, then kept prisoner while her life is literally hung by a thread. Is a masterful use of music and does Copycat Better for that.
The two main performances are excellent
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What he does Copycat It is worth seeing, both in 1995 and 2025, are the two main performances of Weaver and Hunter. As in Helen, Weaver is not afraid to do -a little scholarly hole. It is crunchy, rude and a little smuggling, and they are resent to being dragged into the business of serial killers, although this is what is best to do.
However, the weaver does not do it completely. There is enough vulnerability to understanding why Helen behaves like her and why catching this murderer is only part of a cycle of endless violence that she is part of and has benefited in the past. After all, what do you think he paid for that magnificent San Francisco house, anyway?
Sigourney Weaver and Holly Hunter in Copycat
Warner Bros.Hunter’s MJ is more sympathetic, as we see her struggling to be heard and taken seriously in a profession dominated by men who do not take her seriously due to her size. (Holly Hunter’s height is 5’2 “) is no different from what Jodie FosterClarice Starling had to bear The silence of the lambsBut Hunter’s MJ is tougher and more persistent – he splashed a joke at work because he has a murderer to catch.
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What is fascinating Copycat It is that the movie does not make its two female characters each other. There are no fake scenes that come together or know each other: they are strictly co -workers, at least for the moment, and they have a job to do. They nerve each other and do not see their eyes to look at many things, but their main goals are the same: to find the killer and keep it alive.
Copycat is one of the best Netflix Streaming movies right now
Copycat It can be deep, but it is first and an unpleasant and entertaining thriller that provides the goods. Violence is disturbing for all correct reasons and the values of action, direction and production cannot be overcome. It is a great thriller to see the summer night when it gets dark enough to do -you ask what is in these shades.
