FILM REVIEW:
A Public Ransom
By Benjamin Poole, TheMovieWaffler.com
The premise of A Public Ransom is
intriguing in its noir-ish machinations. Steven (Carlyle Edwards - a
pseudonym for the writer/director, Pablo D’Stair) is a failing and
embittered writer who happens
across a shabby looking missingchild poster with the image and
number scrawled in childish crayons. Believing the poster to be a
joke, yet idly wondering if there
could be an idea for a story in the
situation, he calls the number. The
mercurial Bryant (Goodloe Byron)
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answers, and laconically informs
Steven that he has, in fact, kidnapped a young girl, going on to
demand $2000 from Steven, or
else the child will die. Unsure of
Bryant’s integrity, Steven begins
a communique with him, and is
soon drawn into a game of psychological cat and mouse as Bryant proceeds to invade all aspects
of Steven’s life; most insidiously
by beginning a sexual relationship
with Steven’s only friend, Rene
(Helen Bonaparte).
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