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Copycat also has another character from a different serial killer movie known as John Doe from Seven who would not kill just for the sake of killing. Instead, he would want to put out a statement whenever he murdered someone, and also send out a message to the police. He acts as if he were a student of some of the most infamous serial killers in history and every one of his murder scenes is prepared in a meticulous manner that is reminiscent of photographs of crimes committed by iconic monsters such as the Son of Sam and the two stranglers known as Boston and Hillside.
Such a public detail-oriented crime would indeed need an audience and one such audience exists in the form of Helen Hudson (Sigourney Weaver) who plays a well-renowned criminal psychologist who has authored a book detailing serial murderers and is famous enough in her profession to say, “I’m their damn pin-up girl. They all know me.” She is shown to be delivering a speech at the start of the movie and one of her previous clients known to be a serial killer terms Daryll Lee Cullum is portrayed by jazz-pop singer Harry Connick Jr. and features an evil smile with horrible decayed teeth. She blinks and he vanishes in front of her but she certainly should keep in mind that going to the lady’s washroom afterward is not a good idea.
What transpires next turns Hudson agoraphobic, as she now spends the next 13 months at home, drinking way too much and isolating herself from the world. She’s so terrified to go outside, that she needs to grab the local newspaper off her front porch with a broom. Cullum is soon behind bars, but there’s another killer the copycat that is working in town. When Hudson starts to understand what he is doing, she gets in touch with the police officer who is responsible for the case.
That would be M. J. Monahan (Holly Hunter), the most interesting character in the film. M. J. Hunter had been arguably the most enjoyable character to play ever, and her influences from her role as a TV producer in “Broadcast News” are clear. A small woman in areas that typically contain lots of big men, she was normally jovial, friendly, warm, and self-effacing, calling men by their first names as if she were a third-grade teacher.
But there is steel below her surface as she glares at us from above the Smokies framed by the slowly rising bow of the car. Then we hear the sound of her thundering footsteps down a corridor. Walking one way and looking at another, she is accumulating mental memories to be sorted out much later. She possesses an attitude along with sharpness and sarcasm.
The core of the film lies in one of these relationships, between M. J, so tiny and so domineering, and Hudson, so passive and huge.
Men are also present. Hudson does have at home a gay man to use as a live-in companion, for some emotional support. She does moan that she has a hankering for sex but does nothing about that. In rather different ways, both women are well aware of Ruben (Dermot Mulroney), M. J.’s partner.
The suspense develops in quite expected ways. It looks like there is a possibility that Cullum, who is in jail, has a link to the copycat killer. And certainly one of the copycat’s victims is Helen Hudson, who is supremely self-assured and walks around shrouded in darkness in her apartment, as well as showers, and so on, and performs all of the other suspense cliches that still have power, which is sad. She also spends far too long behaving in a half-strangled manner in her bathroom which is always captured right at the start and end of the film. Did you realize the cops who burst in in both cases always leave her hanging there while they scan the area for their prey, pleasant, don’t you think?
While the movie didn’t stand out as Seven did in visuals and the whole experience, it portrays the story most effectively. Designing unique characters was in abundance, such as the Hudson and especially the lively M. J. who was head and shoulders above the rest. The plot does more than just exist, and that’s why they are getting the response they are.
In a more restricted setting, Weaver is efficient, when paired with Hunter’s stringent cop roles that add more depth to not only the movie but create one of the most fascinating characters of the year.
It’s harder to accept that a character in suspenseful movies is a real-life person outside the realm of cinema, but M. J. breaks that mold. Add this to the work of Hunter to which she won an Oscar, and in the film “The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader Murdering Mom” and you realize, to the joy of many, how remarkably talented some actresses can be.
The question presents itself Why are certain movies trending today? Why was the audience’s preference for “Seven” more towards its gory features than the non-grim shows? Why is “Copycat” more successful than other movies that remind of “The Silence of The Lambs”? Evil has acted like a magnet in cinema, alongside heavy fears, my guess is that evil intrigue grows along with it. These types of Movies serve the purpose of introducing certain fears without putting the audience in any real danger.
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