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Apt
Pupil Apt Pupil is based on the short
novel by Stephen King, and as King adaptations go, it's well done.
The story, however, is not a pretty one, as Todd Bowen, All-American
Boy, turns into a killer through his association with Kurt Dussander,
a former Nazi concentration camp commander. As a result, critics were
very divided on the film, one acknowledging that it was well-made
but that it revealed itself "as unworthy of its subject matter."
If the critic meant the background of the Holocaust, then somehow
he—and a number of others—felt that a film about a decent
human being's slide into evil and brutality didn't have much to do
with the mass execution of Jews. Thus they missed not only the point
of the film but also anything of substance that history could teach
about that awful event. Granted, scenes in the film are brutal and
the story is not a pretty one, but man's potential for evil is not
a subject for drawing room chit-chat.
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