Anamorph (film)

Anamorph is a 2007 independent psychological thriller film directed by Henry S. Miller and starring Willem Dafoe. Dafoe plays a seasoned detective named Stan Aubray, who notices that a case he has been assigned to bears a striking similarity to a previous case of his. The film is based on the concept of anamorphosis, a painting technique that manipulates the laws of perspective to create two competing images on a single canvas.

Stan Aubray Willem Dafoe, is a seasoned, semiretired detective with significant obsessivecompulsive disorder and struggling with alcoholism. Resigned to a teaching position for forensic psychology, he is called back to active duty following a murder involving a man murdered in a highrise apartment building. Suspended, and surrounded by photography lights, the room is sealed off except for a pinhole, creating a projected camera obscura effect on the apartment wall. This murder, involving significant staged artistic effect, bears many similarities to the Uncle Eddie murders, a series of similarly artistic killings, for which Stan was promoted following the prime suspects death in an attempted arrest. Stan relates some of his difficulties to Sandy, a recovering alcoholic and former prostitute who is a friend of Stan and Crystal, the final prostitute victim of Uncle Eddie, and Stans apparent former lover. Sandy invites Stan on a hiking trip with a group of friends, which Stan declines.A second killing quickly follows the first, in which the butchered corpses limbs are hung independently from wires, creating the image of a raven when viewed from the proper angle. Stan begins drinking heavily, even filling his coffee cup with vodka in the middle of work. He also begins to have friction with Detective Carl Scott Speedman, a recently promoted detective who is resentful of being left behind by Stan. Following this, Stan returns home to find his apartment has been broken into, the thief stealing an antique Victorian chair and replacing it with a taping of his inquiry following Crystal and Uncle Eddies deaths. Stan also notices a painting identical to the camera obscura projection in an antiques store, also painted with identical pigments to the Uncle Eddie killings. ........

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