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Christopher R. Witherspoon's Rage

Written by Jonathan Jacobs

Christopher R. Witherspoon’s "Rage" is a masterpiece. It is challenging to single out one aspect of this production that stands out because Witherspoon is the writer, producer, photographer, editor, director, and a principle actor in the film. In each category he deserves high marks. "Rage" is one of the more violent movies in recent memory but every act of "rage" itself is calculated and purposeful. From the very beginning audiences will find their hearts pounding and their minds wandering.

The star of the film is Rick Crawford, the perfect choice for a run-of-the-mill average American. Along with his wife (played by Audrey Walker), he lives in modern suburbia. She is an interior decorator, at least reasonably attractive, and most importantly, blindly devoted to her prurient husband. The film begins with Crawford (a local university English professor and failed novelist) conversing with his wife about his plans for visiting Portland, Oregon for an entire day. After some suspense building stalling techniques the professor leaves for the urban sprawl to begin what turns out to be a life-altering journey.

Crawford’s real purpose for visiting the city is to handle some delicate personal business. Moments before meeting with his girlfriend (his intent is to break off their relationship and remain with his wife) Crawford takes a motorcyclist’s parking space. This is an everyday occurrence that is seemingly ordinary. It happens to most people at least once. While waiting for a parking space at a shopping mall, a sporting contest, or perhaps a restaurant, someone swiftly intercepts their parking space. Often the reaction of the spurned parker is to curse subtly or to flip off the person who stole their space. In Crawford’s case he did not see the biker until after he finished parking. Dismissing the situation as inevitable since he is in a hurry to end his extra-marital affair, he ignores the plea of the stealthily dressed motorcyclist and moves on with his day.

This brings us to the tagline and central theme of "Rage", "Be careful who you piss off!" The professor ends his infidelity and at the same time listens to his girlfriend’s warning about her ex-boyfriend who was recently released from prison. This causes the intersection of two events that lead to catastrophic consequences. Normally I delve into every detail of a film’s plot and then leave the ending for the moviegoer to enjoy himself. In this instance it is better to leave most of the plot unmentioned because it would spoil the suspense. It is enough to tell you this is a cat and mouse story of a very angry man who is for all intents and purposes unidentifiable. Wearing a black tinted helmet, a black jacket, black boots, and driving a motorcycle, the angry individual (played by Witherspoon himself) could be anyone. Crawford believes it is his ex-girlfriend’s crazed boyfriend out for a little revenge and nothing more. His weakness and willingness to keep his affair a secret cloud his judgment and leads to horrible consequences.

It is important to caution squeamish viewers there is a sexually graphic rape scene in this film. A member of the audience rightly pointed out it reminded him of a "snuff" film. During the post-show back and forth, Witherspoon explained that the music (which is insanely well-orchestrated to match every twist and turn) makes the images appear far worse than they are. The music acts as special effects normally would. Immediately before and after the woman is ravaged, Witherspoon causes us to laugh at the blood and guts and gore. It is sort of a Halloween 2 meets High Tension laugh-a-thon. The character Crawford portrays is such a morally spineless weasel that we cannot help but to attribute what happens to him as just desserts. At the risk of spoiling the funniest scenes in the film, a chainsaw is used to massacre the two most annoying characters.

Witherspoon gladly admits his inspiration for "Rage" largely comes from an admiration of Steven Spielberg’s classic film "Duel" and from the original Halloween series. The character he portrays seems nearly as invincible as Michael Myers and is certainly as destructive. The music played during the most horrific scenes in a sense pays homage to the Halloween films when Myers is chasing any of his many victims. It is clear and obvious that Witherspoon will be a huge star at least for one of his many talents as relates to film. If "Rage" is merely one of his many ideas brought to the screen from a wild imagination matched with a knowledge of cinematic history we are all in for many shocking treats. This should be a candidate for the best of this year’s Palm Beach Film Festival.