Light sleeper is such a beautiful movie. From the music, to the New York City night setting this is one stylish film. Light sleeper you say?.. well New York City is the city that never sleeps right? I usually love Willem Dafoe in any movie he is in and I can assure you this film doesn't disappoint. Susan Sarandon is such a wonderful actress we get to see powerful performances this film, Sam Rockwell also plays a very tacky drug supplier. This is packed with emotion, defoe plays a small-time drug dealer, he sells cocaine a white drug for white people as they say. He is a drug dealer who is a recovering drug addict, who is also trying to rekindle the relationship with his ex addict girlfriend. He also has trouble sleeping as you would say a light sleeper because he is up all night selling drugs. He tells this therapist or so I thought, she is actually a clairvoyant or some kind of psychic that he actually wants to quit this lifestyle and become a musician or focus more on music recording, so off the bat we know that deep down inside he really is a good guy. Although it's a bit complicated it's a very captivating movie. The use of color is very prevalent in this film there was a few scenes where I saw greens and yellows and blues and reds mixed very well, kudos to the cinematographer. We follow defoes character all night as he sells drugs to many clients in different locations and sites of the city, it's almost hypnotizing as we hear his monologues over sexy saxophone music. The old relationship doesn't work out and her mother passes away and then she ends up having a relapse and committing suicide but it is some kind of murder mystery. Great film I really enjoyed it I cannot wait to watch it a second time Seven Star.
Review of Light Sleeper
