John Cusack was amazing as Edgar Alan Poe in that murder mystery movie. He was captivating, emotional, driven by passion and by spiritual thirst. It's not a lie to say that a great central character levitates the movie to another level of existence. Because The Raven is by itself a pretty awesome crime thriller. It has morbid atmosphere, a great mystery, passion and everything more that you need in order to have a movie that will have you longing for more. But that central figure, that of Edgar Alan Poe is making the film a real blast of emotions. If you only had a detective it would still be a good movie, but it wouldn't have the higher quality that it has. John Cusack is making the movie to dance the dance of the dead, he is really producing an effect so powerful and so esoteric that the movie goes to places where there is only one thing and that is thirst. Pure emotional and spiritual thirst. The idea of putting the famous author in a role in this movie was really a knockout. It gives to the film a substantial flavour, a poetic touch, a novel-like quality. Without Edgar Alan Poe the film would be another greatly shot crime thriller, but with the author there it becomes a feast, a great battle, a relentless game of survival. The dark and ominous quality of Edgar's words are been mixed with the plot of the movie making the film a slowly decaying reality, a rotting picture, a bleak hypothesis, finally a triumph of crime movie. The Raven is powerful like very few crime thrillers, it has the quality of a movie that has come here to really stir the waters of your dreams. It has come here to really captivate you, take you for a ride to the dark uncertainty of this world. It's Poe's words that define the movie, is Poe's atmosphere that is running through the film, is Poe's quality that you see in there. And it is more than certain that this is a movie that loves art, loves creation, loves words, loves stories, loves morbid feelings, loves twisted nightmares, loves the spark that lights in us that is caused by the consumption of art. The Raven loves art like very few films do. It loves the thrill, the pain, the torment, the fear, the sickness, the illness, the fever, the world, the creativity. The Raven loves us and we love it back with pure thrill.
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