Blood Brothers

摘要

It comes as no surprise that movie-goers these days are desperate for escapism. If that mood holds, From Hell, opening this week, may be just what the doctor ordered. Especially if the doctor's name is Jekyll or Moreau. From Hell is Hollywood's latest search for Jack the Ripper. It stars Johnny Depp as an opium-addicted Victorian cop and Heather Graham as one of the prostitutes stalked by the madman in London's low-rent Whitechapel district in 1888. It's a shocking movie, to be sure, but this is its most unexpected twist: it is directed by the Hughes brothers, twins Allen and Albert, 29, whornare best known, at least have been until now, for their violent urban dramas set in modern-day Los Angeles. While From Hell divided the critics at last month's Toronto Film Festival, its highly stylized canvas of red skies, unrequited romance and violent, visionary opium dreams are an undeniably ambitious step forward for the Hughes brothers.