![]() Sy takes the creepiness a step further by walking Dylan home from soccer practice without the knowledge of his parents, reading the same books the family does so that he can have something in common to talk with them about, and telling how much he think's they are a lucky and good family. However, once we see the one wall in Sy's apartment that has an object on it, we see that it is a floor to ceiling collage of the Yorkin's family photos in chronological order from when they first started getting their film developed. Sy has memorized their address, birthdays, and even gives young Dylan birthday presents. Sy has been developing their camera film for a number of years and they even call him Sy the Photo Guy. The father, Will (Micharl Vartan) owns his own business, drives a nice car, and provides for his family, while his beautiful wife Nina (Connie Nielsen) tends to their ten-year old son Jake (Dylan Smith) who loves school and sports. Sy has taken a particular and obsessive interest in a family named the Yorkins who seem to lead a normal and happy suburban life. He lives his life and tries to garner an emotion or two through the photos of his customers at Savmart, as he sees and develops each and every photo that comes through. This place resembles Sy's life as he drives a white car, doesn't partake in any employee conversations, has no friends or family, and lives in an apartment with one television and one chair where he spends his evening watching television in an emotionless state. When you walk into Savmart, you feel like you are in a doctor's office where everything is clean and polished and it makes you not want to touch anything. Savmart has bright white fluorescent lights that beam a bright and dull light on the clear polished white floors, where everything looks to be flawlessly placed on shelves with no room for error or mistakes. ![]() The film revolves around Sy Parrish (Robin Williams), a long lasting photo lab employee of Savmart, which is clearly based on a Wal-Mart type of business. Eleven years later, Mark Romanek's 'One Hour Photo' proves to be a chilling and unnerving tale of a lonely man who is obsessed with a notion of the American Dream. This evolution in the photographic realm has made this eerie thriller a little outdated but none-the-less effective and haunting. Instead of breaking out the dusty, large photo albums for our select friends to see our most intimate and fun moments in life, we now look at people's phones or social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram to see other people's photos, which are available for virtually anyone to see at the click of a button, not just your friends and family. Nowadays, we have digital cameras and phones with cameras that take pictures, which we can instantly upload to any mobile device, computer, printer, or social network for our friends and family to see. Even with CVS stores, people mostly use the in-store computers to print out their photos or transfer them to a disk. The latter has become almost completely obsolete. ![]() If you think back fifteen years ago, we had travel agents who planned our vacations, movie rental stores, phone books, and one-hour photo places.
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